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Who You Gonna Call? Ghost Stations! → feedproxy.google.com

Quick: head to iPlayer and check out the Radio 4 documentary, The Ghost Trains of Old England. It’s a lovely little programme about parliamentary trains, and it’s very much worth a listen.

And…

Oct 30, 2010
Victory! → feedproxy.google.com

Above is the happy smiling face of Gary Briscoe, the newly crowned winner of the Station Staff of the Year award at the RailStaff Awards. The Wirral Line Manager was nominated for the…

Oct 29, 2010
On Her Majesty's Kirkby Service → feedproxy.google.com

Robert e-mailed me this pic, and I had to share it. It’s the 25th October 1978, and the Queen is officially opening Merseyrail by riding to Kirkby. (Not that I’m trying to score points…

Oct 25, 2010
Oct 25, 2010
#Episodical #Darren Coffield #John Moores Prize 2010
Oct 24, 20104 notes
#metro
Oct 24, 2010
#Delamere Forest
Things I Do When I Am Drunk

#4: collapse, sobbing, in a corner, and try to hide from the world.

Oct 24, 2010
#drunkenness
Oct 24, 20101 note
#Moonraker
Oct 23, 2010
#liverpool
Oct 19, 2010
#Pedro Almodovar #antonio banderas
Countryphile → feedproxy.google.com

Part two of a two part trip: for part one, click here.

I passed a camping and caravan site on my way out of the Delamere Forest. This immediately got me thinking about lunch. I’ve seen both …

Oct 14, 2010
Get Out Of Cities (Return To The Trees) → feedproxy.google.com

It’s a bacon bap, a coffee and a James Bond novel. Yup, I’m off on another day out tarting! This particular fuel stop was at Carriages, the new cafe-bar in Chester station. I thoroughly…

Oct 12, 2010
Oct 9, 2010
#Kylie #Lego
Railwayman → feedproxy.google.com

I’ve just had some very bad news. My friend Jim Horsford has sadly died.

Jim had been ill for some time, but he passed away last night after a fall. The Bf and I had only seen him on Wednesday,…

Oct 8, 2010
Green Shoots → feedproxy.google.com

As Jeff Goldblum kept saying in Jurassic Park, nature finds a way. We’re metres underground, in the artificially lit, hostile environment of Liverpool Central. Trains are whizzing past…

Oct 7, 2010
Oct 7, 2010
#merseyrail #Liverpool Central
Oct 7, 20106 notes
#Frasier #Niles Crane
Oct 7, 2010
#Paul Rudd #gay
Depression, etc.

Sometimes I just feel lonely.  I have friends and a partner and a family, but it can feel like they’re not inside my head.  Here inside my skull is a place where no-one’s reaching.  It’s as though I’m on a different frequency, just to the side of everyone else, and I don’t know how to retune.

Sometimes I just feel abandoned.  Like everyone else is moving off into the distance and leaving me behind.  They think I’m following, but I don’t understand how they can go so quickly, and no-one will help.

Sometimes I feel too much, a massive, painful groundswelling of pain and despair that rises up inside me and bursts out, tears, screams, renting at my body.  

I wish I could stop feeling like this.  I wish something could help.

Oct 5, 2010
#me #depressing
Oct 3, 2010
#Laura Belem #Liverpool Biennial
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