B&BS5.

This is the view from bed in my pleasantly appointed B&B here in
Potton, a small village near my HQ.

I have been here for two nights after an away day meeting not far away
in rural Essex. Breakfast follows soon and then the civilised free bus
into work. I have a few hours' work with colleagues and then it's a
train into London at 2 and back out west to BS5 for a date at the
movies with BS9!

I like this B&B and I am grateful to stay in it; I always sleep well
and feel rested.

Space BS5!

Today I went into London on the train; this is the last part before
Paddington.

Before I went for the train I had an early start and got a load of
work done ( in faaaaaantastic company x).

I also took a look at live Nasa TV and the Space Shuttle launch at
9.15. That was a right source of spod based fact action!

Within three minutes of launch the Space Shuttle was going 5000mph
and was already 52 miles beyond the launch site. At that rate of
knots, over the 13 seconds of this mundane train vid, the Space
Shuttle covered 17.92 miles!

Top spoddery!

Also met a very nice woman on the tube who asked me if I'd let her
know the changes needed for Kings Cross, which was my journey. This I
did happily and chattily, and that never happens in the saaaaaarf east!

Dog stew!

You can't go wrong with a slow dog stew on a Saturday afternoon.

Stew all cooked now and I am blogging from my mate Steve's house where
we are drinking beers and watching Ireland trounce Italy in the Six
Nations. My brother is at Twickenham later for England Wales.

Hoofage!

The train back to BS5 is hammering along today; always handy on a
Friday.

Here's a little bit of the Gloucestershire country side going past at
speed from just a moment ago.

Come on the weekend and a lie in!

Mappa Mundi .

This is an exciting snap of the turn by turn ability of maps on
iPhone! I had a meeting in Birmingham today and once I had left new
street, I chucked in the postcode and followed the arrow.

The map rotates around you so that one always apears to be progressing
forwards from a central point in the screen.

Ideal!

Morning train....

07.30 and I'm at Temple Meads again for a train out. This was so on
Tuesday and will be so again on Friday.

The train shown here goes all the way to Edinburgh and I will pick it
up in 24 hours for a ride to a meeting in Birmingham. After the
meeting I may have a nose about at Selfridges and a look at massive TV
sets!

My brother has been with me a few days this week and has now flown
out; should be wheels down in Hong Kong any time now, in fact.

Speed!

I have a decent speed tester on my iPhone and here's a rather exciting
picture of it doing its stuff.

Very rare to get 9 MBps at my house and I only really get that at the
Apple Store in the city.

Spod!

Trains and Scooters but no coffee.

A £141 ticket today for a 6.40 Bristol start.

No seats on the Reading to Banbury train and no one turned up to staff the
buffet car.

Pretty ropey overnight sleep owing to some complete cunt riding his moped up and down the
street from 11-1.

Cosmic.

More Transport Stat' Action!

I have just booked train travel for the week ahead and this week the totals come in at 777 miles and a ticket cost of £420.70 pence.

This means a per mile cost of 0.54 pence, which is better (I think) than the other week when it was around 0.96p! I am bringing you this data following a huge spike in readership response to this running Stat'.

54 is a great number if you know your 70s disco venues.

Not quite such an all over the place week but I will take in Banbury, Newport, Birmingham and London.

Tall women and time travel.

I have a bit of a dilemma - two in fact, so I will share them here.

On Sunday my top-smart other half showed me a picture of her from a handful of years ago and before we knew each other.

Then, as now, she looked traffic-stoppingly pretty. After she had gone home, I went to bed and had a dream that I went back in time and met her those years ago. She did not know me but I knew her and we went out and spent the evening together. Is this technical badness? I mean it was still my GF but a different person :) . I asked her and she said 'dreams are free, my love', so I reckon that's okay. Phew!

Here is the other dilemma: my local pub has a party next Saturday night where boys dress as girls and vice versa - just for a giggle you understand. I am unsure about joining in. I have pretty long legs (36 inches) but there's NO way I am shaving them! I think I'd look a bit odd in a skirt. Heels would put me over the six foot seven mark too.

Robbery (or dodgy maths).

Last week I flew to Spain and back, a total flight distance of 1, 978 miles. This cost me £94.00 , or 4.8 pence a mile.

Back at work this week I have just booked 320 miles of train travel up and down the country at a cost of £309.50, and that works out at 96 pence a mile.

That's a bit mental really.

Breaker breaker!

Check this out!

Icon on the bottom right; I have gone iTunes crazy and spent £1.79 on
Ice Road Truckers, a lorry driving game delivering freight across the
ice!

What's not to like?