Robert Woolley 🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴
@robertwoolley
Cynical mid-50 something -Gen X'er. British/English/Irish 48er. Personal politics complex. Undiagnosed Aspergers. Transport person who became a software dev in late 40s. Brent, London/Dublin/Kilkenny/ASEAN. (But mainly Brent). Blocks arseholes.
Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.
Proposal to lock younger people out of social media after 2030:
Good example of heritage pointlessness. Dead phone box in Roe Green, NW9. No phone service but has been left presumably to keep some people happy.
@seatsixtyone.bsky.social Good morning from Padang Besar where I am most of the way through a train trip from Beijing to KL. There are now through electric services from here to KL. Timetables attached along with Kommuter tomes. KL to Padang electric to follow
"We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement communi who have chosen to join us here at the Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time..." @josefoshea.bsky.social
So is there parking enforcement or not? @showmeasign.online
@helenbarrett.bsky.social has kindly pointed out that Margaret Calvert, designer of a slew of transport things including the Tyne and Wear Metro font which bears her name is 90 today. Here's one of her works. The girl is based on her and the boy her brother.
Here's what they put through my letterbox. They are charmers. Happy AI people on one side, frothing hate on the other. (I live in a ward with a rather lovely Hindu temple. So their Christian rhetoric is uh...)
Harrow Town Centre aka Priti Patel country. Yeah, er no
Unlikely. Probably Unionists talking about Londonderry are speaking of:
Lists I'm on. Categories: 1. Upset right-on individuals 2. Irish people tagging me in England (hello all!) 3. Transport 4. WTF?
"I would like to point out as a British shorthair I have support humans. Several of them. Or as I call them: staff."
Here's a library pic from the footbridge at Reigate. Oh - and the signal box in the foreground is in use *and* locally listed.
Seeing as Pam Bondi is unemployed, she could always find work as a Tamzin Outhwaite impersonator:
Slightly odd focus in Labour literature- vape shops and gambling. Market in every constituency?
Before the Euro, Ireland had rather lovely animals on its coins:
I can see why the Bank of England has decided to use wildlife rather than people. Here's what happened last time:
In the land of my ancestors. Nottingham rather than Dublin although both have trams and a Phoenix Park.