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Note to self:

Thursday 9th October, 2008 @ 2.49pm BST Europe/London by Pandammonium

When using JSTOR in the future, open the PDF link in a new tab, which is actually not a link to the PDF, but a link to asking if you agree to the terms and conditions before redirecting you to the link, then save the PDF as a file, rather than trying to open said file, like you’re supposed to because otherwise it claims the PDF file is corrupted. Most annoying.

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Note to self:

Friday 2nd May, 2008 @ 3.56pm BST Europe/London by Pandammonium

Given the choice of

1. jack-knifed lorry on the A14, one lane blocked, and
2. major roadworks on the M11 with a long contra-flow,

go for the contra-flow every time. The “one lane blocked” is a complete lie. The whole damn road is shut.

Four and a half hours it took me to go 14 miles. And yet only twenty minutes to go back the other way.

Bloody guided bus, bloody not reinstating existing train lines to get the freight off the road. The jack-knifed lorry was carrying one of those containers that can go so easily on a freight train.

I’ve only ever found one person in favour of the guided bus, and I’m afraid her opinion, in my opinion, was particularly parochial.

The guided bus system can only take people. A train line would be able to take people and freight. The A14 would be a delight! Even if just the freight were taken away, it would be a massive improvement. The trainline could have been reinstated all the way to the port at Felixstowe. The guided bus only goes to Cambridge.

If the container that had been on the back of this lorry had been on a train instead, it wouldn’t have held the eastbound A14 up, the lorry driver wouldn’t have needed a blood transfusion (a blood-carrying car attempted to squeeze past all the traffic with sirens and lights a-blaze), and I wouldn’t be having this rant now! And I’d have got to do all the things I was supposed to do today.

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Note to self:

Thursday 19th May, 2005 @ 9.41pm BST Europe/London by Pandammonium

Don’t buy crime thrillers and sharp knives in Tesco at the same time. It worries the check-out bloke.

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