Louise

@uncannyval3

Vehicle movement driver and language learner, currently learning Arabic as a beginner and persisting with 🇺🇦 (which is slowly, *slowly* improving).

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Louise@uncannyval3· 18h

Bullshit response from the #Accor F1 hotel to my extremely negative review:

Dear Guest, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. While I wish you had a better experience, it is feedback like this that we learn from and use to improve. We work hard to deliver an exceptional guest experience, and it’s apparent in this case that we fell short. If you give us a chance to earn back your trust, I can assure you that we will do our best to give you the great hotel experience that so many of our guests have grown so fond of. Sincerely …

Louise@uncannyval3· 1d

They’ve even got a Backrooms video. How odd.

TikTok screenshot of a video from the F1 chain showing a shot from the Backrooms film. Backrooms seems to be some sort of internet urban horror thing.

Louise@uncannyval3· 1d

Honestly can’t tell if this is satire - screenshot of the F1 hotel chain’s TikTok page … the tag line says, “The hotel for big rats, like you.” Surely not?

Screenshot of the F1 Hotel chain’s TikTok home page, featuring a very odd tagline.

Louise@uncannyval3· 5d

Locomotive “Alan Turing” at Temple Meads station.

GWR locomotive with a yellow nose and dark green livery decorated with Pride stripes, with “Alan Turing OBE FRS - VE75”.

Louise@uncannyval3· 12d

Didn’t make it. Awaiting instructions from the driving agency but they seem to have their fingers in their ears and are going lalala.

Photo from the wrong side of a motorway barrier, service area signpost in the background. Excellent stuff.

Louise@uncannyval3· 13d

Unforeseen noise issue at Lancaster services: this tower is all very well but its underside reflects the din of the motorway all over the surrounding area. I suppose the roads were a lot quieter when it was built.

The iconic hexagonal tower at the M6 services - it’s shaped like a toadstool with a flat underside. I think it used to be a restaurant or something but it’s a bit tatty now.

Louise@uncannyval3· 21d

Not even kidding.

Very dim Google Earth photo of a possibly abandoned BP petrol station, contributed by “Infraready Ghost Hunting”.

Louise@uncannyval3· Jul 2

Prompted by this post: just because your autistic person doesn’t usually go out alone it doesn’t mean we’re not capable. In my SAR days I often heard, “They never go anywhere alone!” but my first walk without my parents aged about 7 happened because I had formed a plan on my own and executed it.

TikTok screenshot with the caption, “11 year old boy with Autism booked a ride and flight to Japan!”

Louise@uncannyval3· Jun 29

Very long shot but has anyone lost this key on a train that arrived at Victoria from Kent this morning? I’ll hand it to the guard. #southeastern #lostproperty

Louise@uncannyval3· Jun 24

Louise@uncannyval3· Jun 24

Morning!

Louise@uncannyval3· Jun 17

Your last saved image is your current mental state.

Screenshot from an Arabic lesson showing the word “yani” with a cartoon figure shrugging and the translation “like/basically”

Louise@uncannyval3· Jun 7

Anyway, I found another hotel and it was INCREDIBLE. Castillo Bonavia, right by the motorway in the manner of a Travelodge but got up to look like a full-on medieval castle. Apparently they do weddings, should you feel the need. And there’s lots of parking!

Medieval-style castle with turrets and battlements, with a small moat and a green lawn. You can just about see lorries racing past on the motorway in the background. I thought I had taken a photo but evidently was so overcome by the magnificence that I failed to do so. The photo is from https://castillo-bonavia.aragonhotelsweb.com/data/Photos/OriginalPhoto/5089/508941/508941036/hotel-castillo-bonavia-pedrola-photo-14.JPEG.

Louise@uncannyval3· Jun 7

Made my way to the Estacio Nord thanks to very helpful staff in the metro at the airport. The station is magnificent and the Plaza de Toros is right next door. (Disclaimer: not a fan of messing with bulls for entertainment.)

Estacio Nord, a cream coloured two storey building with a somewhat castellated upper edge, a clock at the top of the central tower and Spanish, European and Catalan flags displayed below. There are narrow windows on the upper storey.

The Plaza de Toros: think the Colosseum in Rome but looking as if it was built twenty years ago. The light grey station plaza is in the foreground and the building is silhouetted against a hot blue sky.

Louise@uncannyval3· May 25

I recently joined @annelouiseavery.bsky.social’s Patreon and got home last night to a lovely surprise - a handwritten card from Old Fox himself with news of his friends and pressed flowers from the village. A genuine treat! Thank you Anne and Old Fox. 🦊

A card standing on an envelope on a grey kitchen counter. The card has a painting of a fox standing on a small hillock looking over flat countryside, and the envelope is decorated with an image of similar countryside in green. Some pressed flowers are also on the counter.

Louise@uncannyval3· May 22

Morning Cathy and ORCs, enjoy the dog walk in the sun! Currently at Geneva station bumming some wifi off Swiss Railways and charging my phone with a solar panel. Have bought my favourite Swiss drink. Very hot here, thankfully I can take this job slowly.

Bottle of Migros Bio Tea, “Happiness” variety with various herbs including mint, plus rose petals. The colour is that of something a reasonably well hydrated lorry driver might fling out of his window on the A2 from Dover. More tasty than it looks.

Louise@uncannyval3· May 20

Glasgow.

Pole bearing a number of blue sighs indicating directions to destinations including Paisley, Loch Lomond, City Centre and the SECC. Someone has added an extra sign at the bottom which reads D.I.S.C.O. with a figure striking a Saturday Night Fever pose.

Louise@uncannyval3· May 18

This is a cat checkpoint: relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

The back of Maxine’s head. Maxine is a tabby/tortie mix domestic shorthair, enjoying a snooze in a sunbeam on a white duvet cover with a colourful floral print. She displays no interest whatsoever in being photographed. Sadly she rang down the curtain and joined the choir invisible in 2018. Much missed.

Louise@uncannyval3· May 9

Encountered this monstrosity in person yesterday, dear God.

Approx 5ft tall cardboard figure which looks like a naked Fungus the Bogeyman made entirely out of fruit and veg, holding up an apple-shaped sign which says “Fruit and Veg” in a Big Tesco. It’s very off-putting.

Louise@uncannyval3· May 9

Looks like Chatham is about to get its very own Shit Wonka K-Pop “This isn’t the show we were expecting” compo face moment.

Photo of an HGV parked outside Chatham’s Central Theatre. The side of the lorry advertises a K-Pop All Stars show. It clearly says “Tribute” underneath. TRIBUTE. Read the small print, people!

Louise@uncannyval3· Apr 14

Morning Clare and ORCs. Day off today, will go out for a walk around the neighbourhood this morning, taking turns according to a roll of two dice, and see where it takes me. Mended a pair of jeans sashiko style yesterday, something I’d like to get better at. Have a good day all!

Red bandana fabric patch on the seat of some jeans, with colour changing embroidery thread in blue and pink stitched in a pattern of squares
and blanket stitch around the edges. I think I bought the original bandana fifty years ago.

Louise@uncannyval3· Apr 8

@hookland.bsky.social Caught a pylon going skyclad, is it an omen?

An electricity pylon silhouetted against a bright blue sky with green foliage in the foreground. It has no cables attached to its arms.

Louise@uncannyval3· Apr 2

Another Travelodge security oopsie: the button on the door which appears to be a lock does nothing, in fact the door lock doesn’t appear to have any locking mechanism from the inside. Have deployed my little plastic temporary lock as a backup.

Rather dim photo of the edge of a hotel room door showing a blank metal plate where you would think the locking mechanism would be. Or am I missing something here?

Close-up of the interior door handle of my room. Below the handle is a knob which ordinarily would lock the door, but it does nothing and the corresponding mechanism seems to be absent.

Louise@uncannyval3· Apr 2

Horrified to read of some of the incidents of unauthorised access to people’s rooms that have happened in Travelodges, given how often I use them. Supposedly they’re putting an emergency contact number on guests’ key card wallets - that news clearly hasn’t reached the hotel I’m staying at tonight.

Photo of a hotel room key (not keycard) plus the accompanying card wallet, which reads “Need to speak to a hotel team member? Call …”. There’s no number.

Louise@uncannyval3· Feb 18

Morning Steve and ORCs, from Oakhampton where the YHA is rather well equipped for coffee lovers. Off to Exeter to pick up a van which I’ll drive to Loughborough. Considering a road trip to Wick after that, which I’m sure I shall live to regret if I take it on.

Three cafetières of varying design and a mokka pot on a shelf.

Louise@uncannyval3· Feb 10

Also this vehicle is inexplicably full of babies.

Some very tiny baby dolls on a van seat.

Louise@uncannyval3· Jan 29

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Alison Steadman in Abigail’s Party, with a cigarette in her mouth and looking rather fruity.

Louise@uncannyval3· Jan 16

In a French F1 hotel as usual on these trips, and enjoying the wallpaper made up of vintage travel posters. Bit puzzled by this one. The artist’s name is Aage Rasmussen and it’s dated 1937:

Mostly black poster with an illustration of a red locomotive coming towards the viewer, seen from low down on the tracks. Above the train is a stylised dial in red showing “140” (there are no other figures). At the top of the poster are the letters DSB, slightly slanted, perhaps to convey a sense of movement.

Louise@uncannyval3· Jan 12

Found this lovely snippet about the Arabic word for a phone on Reddit (credit: user Haniel52):

Hatif […] is a voice that can be heard without one discovering the body that made it.

Al-Jahiz wrote that the Bedouin believed that important messages could be transmitted without a visible medium. The receiver would hear the message in realtime without seeing the speaker. […]

Hatif doesn’t necessarily come from humans or jinn, but also from ghosts, dwelling near graves to remind humans of their mortality or announce their death.

In modern Arabic, the term hatif is also used for a telephone, due to invisible communication.

Louise@uncannyval3· Jan 2

I’m puzzling over how on earth the Swiss nightclub fire could happen. Below is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about the Station nightclub fire in the US (aka the Great White fire), which seems similar. How could sparklers of all things ignite the decor?