Month: October 2008
I’m dreaming of a white christmas.
On the train again.
You must have a valid ticket for your journey.
I’m currently sat on a train in a resonably empty carrage and while waiting to leave New Street I have been pondering over the sign opposite me on the wall. Now I know the actual meaning of the sign but sometimes I like to turn concepts and meanings around in my head, I’m really just wired a little funny that way.
It’s commonly said that life is a journey not a destination, so what if like my train journey you need a valid ticket to ride on that journey. And imagine for a second that there is only a limited amount of tickets availible. Fail to get a ticket at the right time and you are doomed to solitude in a metaphysical railway station. Further more imagine if you attempt to board the journey without a ticket and suffer some sort of punishment, a run of extremly bad luck or falling on hard times a penalty fare if you like.
As with everything for a few lucky ones there is always a way around it, smile, blag their way past the conductor and take a seat.
I think I might read my book for a bit now before I head home to my exciting night of laundry and housework.
Councils Turn Street Lights Off
According to the BBC Pembrokeshire is about to become the second county to turn some of it’s street lighting off in order to reduce it’s energy bill. Apparently the lights that have a special timer photocell fitted turn on when it starts to go dark and then shut off at Midnight. Then at 5.30 in the morning come on again for the last few hours of darkness. There has been the usual banter about how turning the lights off reduces safety and increases crime but looking into the story the lights being turned off are ones in rural and low risk areas and quite frankly apart from staggering back from the pub and a night workers who really needs street lighting between Midnight and 5.30
There is also a brief mention about how much CO2 is being saved by doing this, which is nice but we all know the real reason is to save a few quid on the electric bill and good on them. If it keeps the council tax down during the current spate of high energy prices then it has got to be worth doing.
Now I just wish Walsall council would implement this with the street lights outside my bedroom window.
You can read the article here > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7650110.stm
Morning!
I’m on earlys this week and this is the time I have to get up at. That’s right 5.45 in the morning. Oh and just to make the suffering worse my train was cancelled, if only I’d known I would have stayed in bed for an extra 20 minutes.