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Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)
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Jub line has triumphed. He's already on a train and on the way to Stanmore. No wait, no lines, has a seat! !!!!!!? British public transport working?!Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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How did he get out so quick?vivatifosi wrote: »Jub line has triumphed. He's already on a train and on the way to Stanmore. No wait, no lines, has a seat! !!!!!!? British public transport working?!0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »I'm not sure if DH will be coming home, as at KFC he bumped into the Swedish volleyball team...
Am therefore hoping he gets home a) sober, b) before 4am and c) with eyebrows intact if near said flame.
Hubby home now?PasturesNew wrote: »Bl00dy hell.. just looked up train time/costs from here to London on a random Saturday date in September.... £16 each way! I'm used to journeys by train being £100-200.
It takes under 2 hours. Lands at Waterloo.... no idea where that is obviously
If I wanted to go tomorrow, it's £26.50 each way.
Not sure where you are heading but stagecoach does some cheap deals:
http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/
http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/megatrainbudget.aspx
http://uk.megabus.com/routemap.aspx
http://www.greyhounduk.com/where-we-go/
I am spoiled for choice having a "crumbly" pass (and a rail card).
Big arc round the top and bottom of London as well as through the middle.
Though one does need to get up early on a Saturday and be prepared to travel hopefully rather than arrive.
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PasturesNew wrote: »How did he get out so quick?
He left during the Paul McCartney segment as he knew that nothing else visual was going to happen that he couldn't catch on the way out. Having said that, I think even he was surprised.John_Pierpoint wrote: »Hubby home now?
I picked him up from Stanmore and we were home by 2.15am, in bed by 2.30. Absolutely shattered this morning though.
His favourite bits: the rings being forged, Valdemort and Mary Poppins - I've seen his pics and the size of Valdemort was just amazing and so huge in the stadium - worth looking out for pics of, Rowan Atkinson, seeing Usain Bolt, the torch being lit, being part of it and meeting the other people around him. But most of all the Olympic volunteers for making everyone feel so special - they were taken to the cheap seats yet referred constantly by smiling volunteers as "VIPs" and the British troops for making them all feel so safe.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Good luck today to Cav and Hannah Miley and all of the team GB hopefuls!Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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It was hypothetical "If I ever go somewhere" chit chat....John_Pierpoint wrote: »
Not sure where you are heading but stagecoach does some cheap deals:
http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/
http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/megatrainbudget.aspx
http://uk.megabus.com/routemap.aspx
http://www.greyhounduk.com/where-we-go/
I am spoiled for choice having a "crumbly" pass (and a rail card).
Big arc round the top and bottom of London as well as through the middle.
Though one does need to get up early on a Saturday and be prepared to travel hopefully rather than arrive.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/52671225#Comment_52671225
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vivatifosi wrote: »He left during the Paul McCartney segment as he knew that nothing else visual was going to happen that he couldn't catch on the way out. Having said that, I think even he was surprised.
I picked him up from Stanmore and we were home by 2.15am, in bed by 2.30. Absolutely shattered this morning though.
His favourite bits: the rings being forged, Valdemort and Mary Poppins - I've seen his pics and the size of Valdemort was just amazing and so huge in the stadium - worth looking out for pics of, Rowan Atkinson, seeing Usain Bolt, the torch being lit, being part of it and meeting the other people around him. But most of all the Olympic volunteers for making everyone feel so special - they were taken to the cheap seats yet referred constantly by smiling volunteers as "VIPs" and the British troops for making them all feel so safe.
His updates helped me enjoy it more.
I liked the moths best i think. I think the lighting was very pretty, but......while i liked the idea of future olympians i also felt it was somehow wrong, and even indicative of something we lose today. However. They did it beautifully.
It was too long. Far too long. I would have had the celebration of british music just as those athletes marched out as it was the lwasdt visually imoressive bit. We took a nap. Hey jude actually really annoyed me, a lot. Unlike viva i also was not impressed with the emile sande rendition of abide with me. In fact, i thought it was ugly. Which is a great shame. I would have preferred her to sing something she is good at, like heaven, which i like, but infact i found that whole segment a bit......tedious. I also found those men with top hats very disturbing, though on the whole thought the forst segment was good.
The fireworks were too dense to appreciate for me, and i thought too late. Its all very well it being beautiful and stuff, but some people have to get up to work early and others just will have wanted to sleep through that radket. That kind of inforced noise etc is starting yo get my goat as i get older and grumpier.0 -
I think, for me, I didn't know what was going on most of it .... I didn't spot Mary Poppins, never heard of Valdemort.. I'd need to have it all explained to me. Also, probably, seeing it on a small screen just means it's not so obvious what's going on compared to somebody sitting in front of a 50" screen with surround sound and somebody sitting beside them pointing stuff out too.vivatifosi wrote: »His favourite bits: the rings being forged, Valdemort and Mary Poppins - I've seen his pics and the size of Valdemort was just amazing and so huge in the stadium - worth looking out for pics of, Rowan Atkinson, seeing Usain Bolt, the torch being lit, being part of it and meeting the other people around him. But most of all the Olympic volunteers for making everyone feel so special - they were taken to the cheap seats yet referred constantly by smiling volunteers as "VIPs" and the British troops for making them all feel so safe.
I didn't see Usain Bolt, but then I'd not know what he looks like.
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I've never heard of Emile Sande. I do remember somebody odd singing a song at some point (but I didn't take notes/didn't know there'd be a test at the end) .... however, that Abide with Me is one of those tunes just like Jerusalem - my mum wants it at her funeral, we chose it for dad's. Everybody seems to like/have/choose it for times when you need a bunch of old, well-known, church songs to sing. It's "typically British", which is probably why they made her sing that.lostinrates wrote: »....not impressed with the emile sande rendition of abide with me. In fact, i thought it was ugly. Which is a great shame. I would have preferred her to sing something she is good at, like heaven, which i like, but infact i found that whole segment a bit......tedious.0
Everyone proud to be British tonight?
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