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FiveSeventeen

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I travel a great deal, but mainly commute to work on the 05.17 from Bremen each week day.

I read heavy books, collect old photographs, and write long letters. My working clothes are kilts, but I do own one pair of jeans.

This is a small, occasional record of those travels by train and bus, of books read and letters written, and sometimes the events in between. Posts are automatically deleted after three months.

Don't expect any deep philosophical content here!

Born at 317.58 ppm

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Wen, to music
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Toyah in concert 1979

On my route to digitising my old negatives. An untouched (you can tell from the dust) photo of Toyah in concert. Taken when I was supplementing my meagre student grant (remember those?) by taking photos for a number of music papers (remember them?).

Ilford HP5 pushed hard

#Toyah #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Music

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen

Hard to believe, for all of us who were there back then, but she'll be celebrating her 66th birthday on 18 May.

Also hard to believe, especially in this industry, she's still married - since 1986 - to the same person!

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen

Is she still in? I thought she'd managed to get over that and was concentrating on her music again: Glastonbury and all that.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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"I was afraid to ask."

So the medic preparing me for my MRT today, where no metal is allowed in the room at all. Me being traditionally attired in my kilt.

I was given a towel to wrap around myself.

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen yes, but no. He did see it, but the main problem for him was that I needed to take off the kilt, with its metal, and walk bare-arsed to the machine.

Surprisingly few people see the sgian dubh unless I'm sitting.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you wash and dry a load of laundry, you also have to be prepared to fold it, and put it away. It's not really helping otherwise.

FiveSeventeen,
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@RickiTarr

I just did exactly that (washing and putting them away)

@realtegan @Kierkegaanks

BylinesScotland, to random
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The Borders Railway holds the ticket to discovering one of Scotland’s most interesting and beautiful regions | James Jobson

https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/borders-railway-gateway-to-discovery/?feed_id=1202&_unique_id=6640e8eabf249
https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/borders-railway-gateway-to-discovery/?feed_id=1202&_unique_id=6640e8eabf249

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen @BylinesScotland

clearly there is a hardly visible model railway somewhere in the tall grass, and an equally invisible man who bought the set for his child....

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Breakfast ordered. I'm disinclined to go for the cheese Omelette, just glancing at the menu photo is off-putting, so it's croissants with jam and a milky coffee.

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 some of the ICE choices are, indeed, worthy of the name, and fresh.

FiveSeventeen,
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@fkamiah17 perhaps it's the special export model.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Travelling with a book, of course, to cover about five and a half hours in a metal tube. Volker Reinhardt's "Der nach den Sternen griff" on the life of Giordano Bruno.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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All these stories about certain racist, hate-filled people crossing the floor and defecting to the Labour party, and no one has picked up the real story yet.

The Labour party has defected to the Tory party. They are now one.

#life #UKPolitics #Labour #Tory

EU_Commission, (edited ) to random
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Today, President von der Leyen is celebrating Europe Day in Vilnius.

Lithuania’s commitment to our Union’s security and defence and our shared European values is indispensable.

You’re making Europe so much stronger.

FiveSeventeen,
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@EU_Commission

EDIT: changed and alt text included within five minutes. Excellent: thank you.

Is it not a big thing in the EU that we should include all our citizens?

This post excludes the blind and partially sighted by not having Alt Text on the images.

You want to make Europe stronger? Live up to the principles and ideals of inclusion, even for the blind and partially sighted.

Use Alt Text.

#alttext

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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This morning, on the German news service, there was a report that April was the hottest month since records began, and that temperatures have risen by over 1.5Β°C since pre-industrial times.

Then we went over to the announcer of the next piece of music, who greeted us with a "and it's another wonderful day out there".

There's the problem, right there.

#life #ClimateChange

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Looking back at the actions of the MSN in the USA as the Vietnam war was dragging on bitterly - to inevitable failure - and the playing up of good stories, the positive and not the reality of the war, I see many similarities in the handling of Trump and his consorts by the press today.

An abject failure to report the truth in an unbiased and honest manner to those who need to know.

A pandering to bias, to misinformation, to abuse.

When all is said and done, the MSN will claim they did their best, and sweep the whole matter under a carpet for fifty years. But the damage, today, is being done, and cannot be undone.

Journalists are complicit.

#life #journalism #gop #misinformation #uspolitics

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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"So, you're telling me, I can turn it over and there's more music on the other side?"

#life #music #vinyl

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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A good delivery day today, if somewhat spread out. A set of bathroom scales, something I haven't used since I was a twenty-something and, having quickly used this evening, will probably never use again.

Two new LPs for the collection: "Tales of Topographic Oceans" by Yes - described on the cover as the changing force in progressive rock, whereas I seem to recall diehard Yes fans hated this record - and "Bursting at the Seams" from Strawbs. Anyone remember Strawbs?

#life #music #vinyl #ProgressiveRock #ProtestSongs

SubtleBlade, to random
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Patients evacuated and scans cancelled after #Stockport #hospital ceilings fell in

Ceilings in two units in #SteppingHill hospital collapsed days apart including in critical care unit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/03/patients-evacuated-and-scans-cancelled-after-stockport-hospital-ceilings-fell-in
#ToryPoliciesInAction #NHS #NHSEngland #BreakThenPrivatise #UnderfundingPublicInfastructure

FiveSeventeen,
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@SubtleBlade @Wen

mattresses and bedding not included.

FiveSeventeen,
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@Wen @SubtleBlade

Quite a bit in the press last year, I think, over charging exonerated prisoners for bed and board when released. Englandshire, naturally.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Time for this morning's adventures in travel. What will the world present us with today?

At the moment, online, everything seems to be working, and running on time.

#life #travel #commute #bahn

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Supplier: Your package will be delivered today, probably.

Delivery Agent: your package might possibly be on the delivery van sometime soon, but not today.

#life #shopping #distribution

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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If, in years to come, anyone asks me for memories of my work time, of things that stood out or were unusual, I suspect the first thing which will come to mind is those rare days when the 05.17 was on time.

#life #travel #commute #bahn

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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And so the 05.27 to Achim wins, and the 05.17 seems to be lost somewhere in the system. Not yet cancelled, moved, or reported as delayed.

Some people seem to still be on their day off.

#life #travel #commute #bahn #DBFail

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Cooking done for this afternoon's main meal. I've never even tried to even imagine a vegetarian cottage pie, but it seems, on first tasting, to work reasonably well.

The proof will be in the tasting by others.

#life #food

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Just waiting for an announcement which tells me the train, which us not at the platform, is at the platform.

Timing: the announcement came just before I finished typing, and the train is, indeed, not here.

FiveSeventeen, to Life
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Killing it slightly with packing....

#life #shopping #post

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