Yesterday was rather exciting for the simple reason that we live next to the Hammersmith & City line, and London Underground were running a heritage train during the day. The above picture is of one of the locomotives, they had one at each end of the rake of carriages, which was powering the service. Isn't it glorious to look at. One would almost mistake it for some fevered steam-punk creation if it were not for the fact it was built in 1923 and is nearly a hundred years old. You can see more pictures of the full train here.
So lots of excitement at watching other people have fun riding the train, and the stories they will have to tell of the day. My partner took the photos for me and I put them on Twitter, and in the process had more retweets than I've ever had for anything I've posted. By my estimation over 20,000 people saw the pictures. You can see the Tweets at the bottom of this page.
Today rather tired. That's what excitement does, it wears you out. Or it does if you are an old fogie like me. So today I had to have a nap. Hence the lateness of this post.
I was going to talk about re-watching Stargate Universe, and reading Sin and Syntax, but they will be mentioned in another post. This week I've continued to work on my novel, re-wrote my short story, and received my first rejection slip (from Asimov's magazine).
I lived at Boston Manor up the road in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteDon't know it well, but used to cycle through the area when I worked as a community mental health nurse back around 2005.
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