Free As A Lark at Yarmouth Today
She would appear to have a chancen in the 3:50, but she will be at short odds, so just enjoy it. It will be on At The Races, so if you have Sky, you can watch
Senior Railcards and Free Bus Passes
Yesterday, I took the train into Cambridge as I wanted to do a bit of shopping, visit the real tennis club and C’s old chambers. But I didn’t take the train back, as if I could get to Newmarket, I could get a lift back home.
So to return, I took the bus from Cambridge to Newmarket. It was quite pleasant on a clean bus, although if you think that passengers here are better behaved than those in London, in this case you will be wrong. There were two teenage girls, one of whom after being told to turn off the music on her mobile phone, proceeded to annoy the driver through the periscope by which he observed the top deck. I think we vwere all pleased when they got off.
Why though, do I need two cards to get best value out of public transport; my Senior Railcard for the trains and the free pass for the buses. I know I pay for the railcard, but surely it could be used as a free bus pass. But then it doesn’t have my photo, but then no-one on the railway has ever questioned my ticket. In fact, when you buy train tickets on-line, they don’t even ask you for the number on the Railcard.
Royal Mail to Abolish Counties
Well not quite, but they are going to remove the county line from addresses.
Just out of curiousity I looked up the address of their ground on Ipswich Town’s Web Site.
Ipswich Town Football Club
Portman Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 2DA
United Kingdom
So it would only mean one line disappears in this case, but I suspect there are few in the UK, who don’t know that Ipswich is in the County of Suffolk. Incidentally, there are people in Suffolk, who would say that Ipswich is in the County of East Suffolk, which was merged with West Suffolk to form Suffolk in 1972, when Ipswich lost the County Borough status it had gained in 1888.
So the address of Ipswich Town, if the pre-1972 rules applied woiuld now be exactly the same as the Royal Mail is now proposing.
Ipswich Town Football Club
Portman Road
Ipswich
IP1 2DA
United Kingdom
So it might not make much difference to many here in Suffolk, but I can imagine that others might be not so relaxed about it.
What annoys me about addreses, is that I moved here nearly twenty years ago and my bank still haven’t got the new address on my statement correct. But the Royal Mail usually gets it delivered correctly.
So does it all matter? No!
The Anonymous Widower 