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Lynne

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note the missing capitals in my post above! i do wish whoever/whatever it is that is causing it would stop their fooling around.

3 Apr 2014

@wondering - i didn't buy the tickets but do know that the part of london we were staying in was much nearer waterloo than paddington. so, factor in time and cost of travelling on tube/by taxi to/from paddington then there may not have been much difference. @Clive - you are a font of knowledge. which paper(s) you should write to? any and all of 'em i would suggest.

april fool or not
3 Apr 2014

the nsa must have been monitoring a lot of threads on here then if they're the ones responsible for the missing capital letters! wot a give away eh?you'da thought they'd be more subtle than that. i dunno. spies these days gone to pot the lot of 'em. now, when i was a youngster..............

Dawlish station
2 Apr 2014

Okey doke folk. Here's a suggestion for us all to stick our fourpennyworth in if we are, how to say this politely?, if we are.......er.....a bit fed up with the train services we get here and how long it can take to get from here to London or Cornwall let alone London to Cornwall. We all write a letter to our national paper of choice (daily and sunday newspapers) giving our experiences of the ...

2 Apr 2014

This train leaving London on Friday and arriving here a mere 2.36 hours later. Is it stopping at any stations on its way here? We went up to London for the weekend in Jan. Took the train from here to Exeter St. David's. (20 mins or so). Had to wait at Exeter St. David's for 20 mins(ish)  for the Waterloo train which then took something like 3hrs 30mins to reach Waterloo. So, travelling time ...

april fool or not
2 Apr 2014

Yes DP, but was it the La Fir Polo as reported by the paper or its sister satellite, the La Il Proof?

Dawlish station
31 Mar 2014

Just been watching the news and the report on the lack of funding for rail infrastructure in the south west as per Network Rail's announcement today concerning their next five years worth of investment. Anne Marie Morris was interviewed and unless my ears deceived me she said that despite NR's announcement she believed that the government was indeed listening to the need down here for rail ...

Thanks Mcjrpc. We have already re-tuned the tv(s)more than once since this all started in January and we are still getting problems so I think it is the aerial. I can't talk technical stuff (the technical/practical fairy passed me by when those gifts were handed out!) but I'm pretty certain we do have booster(s). Will contact the people Roberta recommended and ask them to come when my other ...

30 Mar 2014

@roberta - many thanks. i'll contact them tomorrow.,

30 Mar 2014

So.......can anyone recommend anyone who knows about television aeriels and (re)tuning and that type of thing who I can contact to get it sorted out?