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1. Impressive - I only have 8 (2.4%) right in two times (and also right in one once)
Alan | 13.11.22 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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2. You can collect a ticket from any ticket machine but many retailers require you to use the same payment card that you used to purchase the ticket.
Hadders | 13.11.22 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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1. But you had a post in which you analysed all the answers in advance, so you might just have remembered.
2. Your examples include B8 and 88B which might as well be as confusing as the others.
5. The passengers were right to be angry. Not to take out their anger at the driver of course, but the absurdity of the situation.
Greg S | 13.11.22 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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4. I got a train yesterday and while I was not personally delayed by a pheasant, I did spot that one train on the indicator board was displayed as "cancelled due to wildlife on the railway". That could have been the pheasant train!
ST | 13.11.22 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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4 - eventually the driver learned how to reset the system himself… everything's become too complicated.
8 - it didn't matter to them.
9 - considering the increase in energy prices, breaking records for the warmest month ever is a good thing, here's to the warmest December, January, February, March and April.
Still Anon | 13.11.22 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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2 I used to find any card will do, but got caught out using GWR.com for the first time recently as they do need the same card.
Al | 13.11.22 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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1. Assume you found the infamous PINEY on Nov 1.
Kevin | 13.11.22 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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4. Could have been worse, I once waited for a train when announcements were “delays due to bovine intrusion”.
Kev | 13.11.22 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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2. Also, if the machine is out of order but the station has a ticket office which is open, you can collect it from the said office.
Malcolm of Kent | 13.11.22 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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1. I have done it in two 14 times, which is 4.54% of my total. I've also done it in one once, which makes me suspect I may be using the same starter word as you.
steve | 13.11.22 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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2. I beg to differ regarding ticket machine collection. I regularly use two cards (debit + credit) and if I proffer the wrong one to the machine, it is always rejected:
"Please use the card you used when purchasing the ticket"
Annoyingly, the rejection only occurs after you've entered the 8-character collection code!
Frank F | 13.11.22 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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4) I'm reminded of the (probably) apocryphal story which used to do the rounds on the internet about testing trains for bird strikes using some sort of chicken cannon; which ended with the punchline "thaw the chicken first".
7) ICQ is, apparently, still going. At least your email address is easily available.
9) Can't say I'm enjoying it. But what can one do?
martin | 13.11.22 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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2. Confusing Bs with 8s are the worst for me - I wish it wasn't on the approved letter list.
3. Mmmm, Mini Cheddars (tummy rumbles)
4. A very un-'pheasant' incident!
5. Couldn't they have been innocent enquiries?
7. A sobering thought. Most of my friend are online too.
9. We're told we need to lower our energy consumption to slow climate change so with any luck, milder winters will help!
Cornish Cockney | 13.11.22 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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4 et al - the pheasant incident was the undoubted highlight, but all of this is pure gold, and very much the reason I come onto this blog.
cau1khead | 13.11.22 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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1. I started Wordle but got bored after a few days trying to figure out which 5-letter word to start out with. I much prefer Griddle. Have you ever tried it?
Ell | 13.11.22 - 12:11 p.m. | #
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7. Not a solution, I know, and I totally agree it's all very sad. But: come and join us on Mastodon!
David F | Homepage | 13.11.22 - 12:55 p.m. | #
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5: Cuffley, at around 10:15?
miker | 13.11.22 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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Suspect I know whereabouts you were heading, as saw that TOC tweet about pheasants yesterday. Hope you enjoyed. Will await the blog post with interest.
Jordan D | 13.11.22 - 3:23 p.m. | #
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The pheasant was unlucky enough to hit a type of train built specially for services through the tunnels London Moorgate, which has the unique ability to fold out the front of the train for passenger evacuation through an integrated step ladder.
I suspect on any other type of train it would have been fine.
Jonathan | 13.11.22 - 6:08 p.m. | #
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9. Porthmadog hit 21°C today, eight days later in the year than the UK's ever hit 21°C before.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.11.22 - 6:22 p.m. | #
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2. I suspect all the vowels are excluded so they don't accidentally spell anything, objectionable or otherwise. Netherlands car numberplate are the same.
Gregg | 13.11.22 - 6:46 p.m. | #
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2. My ticket machine collection code last week consisted of eight letters only. I’ve never experienced that before - there’s always been a smattering of numerals.
Bob S | 13.11.22 - 6:48 p.m. | #
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10. My Delay Repay claim has already been approved. Thank you pheasant.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.11.22 - 9:26 p.m. | #
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you were hit by a pheasant?
that's a real Game changer.
Geofftech | 13.11.22 - 11:18 p.m. | #
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I can't say I've ever seen a train delayed due to hitting a pheasant but I did once have a train turn up with a dead one stuck to the front of it.
X-Plaistow | 14.11.22 - 12:58 a.m. | #
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8 - A bit of research led me to discover what you nearly found. I appreciate your frustration! Very interesting it is, too.
Gunnersaurus | 14.11.22 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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8 - And turns out I could've not bothered with that research if I'd just refreshed the page...
Gunnersaurus | 14.11.22 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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Gregg - Spanish numberplates also
eltoreador | 14.11.22 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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8. Now I know the thing the church guide missed out, I'm on the side of the church, he's not buried there, and he was a humanist - so not particularly churchy, but in the 1990s they stuck a memorial to him in a churchyard, which appears inconsistent with both his beliefs and those of the church.
Still Anon | 14.11.22 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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2. Ticket collection. I believe it depends on the model of machine. Some will work with any card. Newer ones require the exact card used to make the purchase
IslandDweller | 15.11.22 - 1:55 p.m. | #
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