Friday Photos, Names and Trains
To end the week, here are a couple of photos I took yesterday while trekking all the way to the bin store about 20 yards away from the house. As you can see, the harbour remains empty, though there are rumours of opening the tourist season not long after Easter.
There are only a few photos today, and I notice that one of them shows some of my reference books. I took this because, while setting up an interview on my other blog, Jenine asked if I had read a book titled ‘The Railways, Nation, Network and people’ by Simon Bradley. You see, one of my Clearwater Mystery series has a scene set at Kings Cross station (in 1888), and she is arranging an interview with a historian of the London underground railway. As part of that, it was suggested she also speak to Simon Bradley, and lo and behold, I have his book. It’s very exciting (for me) to have such names attached to my blog, and handy that I use his book as a reference from time to time. My other great source of historical railways information is Andy, who runs the Symi travel blog. I’m always asking him things like, ‘London to Oban and back to Bodmin, January 1890?’ And he sends me the actual timetables and routes. Again, for me, that’s thrilling, and I owe him several dinners when the tourism season does start, and we can see friends again.
But I digress… Here are a few photos to launch you into the weekend. By the way, the toilet pan box has nothing to do with me, though someone has clearly fitted a new one somewhere., I am still at level one; sink waste pipes. There is a story about how I fitted a new WC pan when I had a flat in Dalston, London, and it does happy a happyish ending, but I will save that thrill for another day. Have a good weekend.
