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Here’s a quick blog to apologise (yet again) for the recent lack of blogs. As I’ve mentioned previously, priority has gone to begin the time consuming process of scanning thousands of my old slides. You can see the fruits of my labour here. So far I’ve added several hundred – both rail and travel. You can take your pick from Greece, Tanzania & Zanzibar, Denmark, the UK or Brazil. Of course I’m still adding contemporary UK rail images (such as the launch of the two new rail franchises covering the North of England) plus various other bits and bobs. I’m typing this from a pub on the banks of the Thames in Oxfordshire which has led to Sunday’s picture of the day & local history lesson as this is the view from the pub!
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The ‘new’ bridge was built in the 14th century by monks on the order of Kings John. It was constructed in order to improve communications between the wool towns of the Cotswolds and Southern England. The bridge originally had 51 arches. Only 12 remain. It’s the 2nd oldest surviving bridge to cross the Thames.
I’ll be adding many more pictures (old and new) to my website over April, so feel free to drop in and take a look. Hopefully I’ll get time for some more blogging too…
Paul Bigland 
Many House of Lords petitions and more important priorities.
Yet again you drop by to show why the Stop Hs2 campaign was so useless. 1) You’re a coward. You don’t have the guts to use your own name, instead you hide behind a faked email address (paul.bigland@btinternet.com). 2) You don’t have a clue how the political process works as the Lords can’t stop hs2. 3). You’re a great illustration of why the Stop hs2 campaign could be ignored, who really cares what anonymous folk say? Your campaign has always written cheques it can’t cash by claiming it has more support than it really has.
Still, feel free to keep it up. You won’t stop Hs2 but you will provide a laugh by showing how ridiculous and ineffective the Stop Hs2 campaign is.
Meanwhile over at STOPHS2 – the content proof reading isn’t what it used to be
http://stophs2.org/
Apparently anti-HS2 campaigners are very interested in a new Hi-Fi speaker from Denon (deviously titled HS2) or so their bot search engine informs us?
What’s more, Andrew Adonis is now considered worthy of elevation to the ranks of Nobel Prize winner – I’m still trying to work out which category he’ll be up for; Peace, Literature, one of the Scientific disciplines but somehow I think Economics is more his bag?
My sides are aching – how I’m going to miss my weekly dose of comedy gold from Joe, Penny and the crew when they finally disappear from the virtual horizon?