Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Old Locomotive Committee A.G.M. 2011

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My friend John Archer and I visited Liverpool on the 7th May 2011 for the 26th Annual General Meeting of the Old Locomotive Committee. Li...
Sunday, 15 May 2011

Oops!

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Some of the Links to Photographs in my blog are not currently working. Initially, this was because my pictures, which were hosted by Fotop...
Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Midland Railway Centre, Butterley

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At the beginning of May 2011, my friend Keith visited from Australia. Together, we made a visit to the Midland Railway Centre at Butterle...
Saturday, 30 April 2011

Ascension Island

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Saturday, 30th April on Ascension Island was a day of great contrasts - I arrived by sea in the morning and departed, later the same day, b...
Friday, 29 April 2011

Last Day at Sea

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[Originally posted by e-mail from the ship and edited on my return to the UK] Friday, 29th April I woke up during the night due to a c...

Sailing to Ascension

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[Originally posted by e-mail from the ship and edited on my return to the UK] Thursday, 28th April Last night, the ship set sail just ...
Thursday, 28 April 2011

Last Day on St. Helena

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[Originally posted by e-mail from the ship and edited on my return to the UK] The day started with an excellent breakfast at Susan's ...
Wednesday, 27 April 2011

The Island of St. Helena

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Monday 25th April On Sunday night, the ship's clocks were retarded by one hour for the second time so that we were on GMT. The extra h...
Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Into the South Atlantic

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Tuesday 19th April On the Munich -Johannesburg flight, in addition to the passenger display of speed, height, distance to run and the rest...
Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Briefly in Johannesburg

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Like Munich airport, O R Tambo airport is also very modern (in part). There are lots of people off various flights in the Immigration Hall ...

Transiting Munich

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Boarded an Airbus A319-100 at Manchester for the first leg to Munich with Lufthansa. We're a few minutes late departing, awaiting a ...
Monday, 18 April 2011

Off again!

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It's some time since I flew from Manchester Airport and I'm amazed at the changes to Terminal 1. There are three modern check-in ...

Blossom Time at Brewood

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It's been a hard winter but as the trees burst into blossom, there's promise of better days ahead. In Japan, they make a big thi...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Wulfrun College Retired Staff Association visit Brewood Hall

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Around 40 members of the Wulfrun College Retired Staff Association made a morning visit to Brewood Hall on 23rd February 2011. Half of th...
Monday, 10 January 2011

Relief Work in Myanmar (Part 2)

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A seriously-ill patient being prepared for an infusion in a schoolroom being used by the mobile clinic during the 49th trip to the Delta. ...