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Thanks to Virgin Trains trying to pass the buck for a messed up train journey to First Transpennine, FT passed the buck back to VT and offered some travel vouchers as an apology and they were used today for a trip to Barrow In Furness. Why? The Docks Museum looked interesting and apart from ironing, little else to do (except decorate the lounge and finish the gloss in the bedroom but they can wait for wet weather).
First of all, don’t trust google to find the dock museum. It happily displays it has found the dock museum but following their directions you end up in the middle of the docks surrounded by nothing but BAE buildings and what I believe were flats. So another 20 minutes later I’m at the docks museum.
Quite an unusual museum, the entrance is on the side of what was a dry dock. Going into the museum you cross a walkway onto a steel structure with 3 floors of displays, the other 2 floors beneath you in the old dry dock. The museum structure is in the dry dock leaving the dock walls clearly visible, if you’re in the area it’s well worth a look and there’s an outdoor play area for kids (although some dads seemed to be enjoying it more).
If you visit Barrow on a Sunday in February, the museum is about all you will find open. In the town centre there was Debenhams, Subway, Poundland and the usual gaming and mobile phone shops open. The rest were shut, not even a Greggs open. Just outside the town centre were the usual shops, Morrisons, Tesco, Currys, etc. but if I wanted them I wouldn’t have had to leave Lancaster.
All in all not a bad day out but one I won’t be repeating.
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 It’s good to be in the house for more than a few minutes, finally got around to deciding about the kitchen and dining room both of which will be trashed in the near future. Nothing wrong with either of them as they stand but I don’t want two rooms. It’s also been Noah’s Christening today, we nearly matched in our suits  I mean his christening outfit, not the bib although some would argue that point 
My search to find a lager that can’t be improved with fresh lime continues. Even Desperados, why was I introduced to it so late in life, improves with a slice of lime. Fresh lime even makes Tuborg palatable. Sadly I was let down last night by a bottle of Merlot, if I’d had some fish ‘n chips I could have used it instead of vinegar.
I’ve finally got around to re-registering with Flickr. I managed to screw up my yahoo email address which was registered (and paid for) with Flickr, couldn’t remember the details I used to register so couldn’t prove to Yahoo that I was the real owner of the email address. Click here for my Flickr photos.
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Yet again the solution to the congestion in Morecambe and Lancaster goes to an enquiry. Various groups complain about the ever rising costs, have they thought that actively campaigning against the road and delaying it is actully the cause of the rising costs? Had it been built when it was first planned we’d have saved a fortune.
It’s a nightmare journey around 8am and 5pm and whatever statistics you throw at us, you only have to do the journey a few times to realise you are queuing behind lines of HGVs heading to the M6 and a third of the cars that get stuck on Greyhound Bridge are heading to the M6. I know this because I sit in it daily, I’m one of the third heading to the M6 with daily commutes across the North West, Yorkshire and Humberside.
It’s no fun when you know that at the end of your 2 hour journey from Sheffield it can take you another 40 minutes to cover the last 5 miles. The relief road would make that 40 minute journey about 8 minutes. Think of the impact on the environment those extra 32 minutes running the engine has. No, I can’t travel by train because that would add at least 2 hours to my journey, time I could spend doing some work.
As for the Northern route being longer, it’s no longer than the route everyone takes now. Very few people drive through Lancaster heading to J33, the vast majority go to J34 to avoid Lancaster city centre and head south on the M6. Look at a map of the route to J34, no longer than the proposed link road.
I’ve heard complaints from people in Torrisholme about the road. I bought a house in the centre of Torrisholme in 1980 and my solicitor talked me through the proposal for the new road which the local search had picked up. A road that had been planned since the early 1960s. It was her duty to point out to me that the road could be within earshot of my house. Knowing that, I still bought the house, my decision. The people that have discussed the road with me have all moved into that area since 1980, all knew about the road yet still bought their houses. Sorry folks, you knew what might be coming.
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Nothing like as cold as it has been or as cold as the weather channels say it is elsewhere but I still can’t put a wash on, the machine is in an old fashioned out-house and the water froze in the pipes – T to the rescue.
I managed to get to The Wine Yard last [...]
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Having seen the east coast, midlands and south west, Morecambe has got off very lightly with the white weather. It doesn’t mean it’s less white than anywhere else, just not as deep. It’s been cold though, cold enough to freeze salt water but at least the coumcil have used sand off the beaches to help around [...]
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Quite a while since a half decent blog with some personal detail, so what’s been happening? As has become a regular event since the kids were young, Xmas Day with them was on Xmas Eve. Presents handed out, pies just about cooked in the oven before everyone starved but I gave up with the mushy [...]
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A week later and still no announcement from Morecambe FC about a stadium deal. If I hadn’t used The Visitor to light the fire on Christmas Day I’d be asking for a refund. Just proves my comments last week, it’s a complete waste of paper. I wonder what will appear this week, if it was so bad [...]
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Today is the last Visitor I’ll be buying. I’m not a regular reader but today’s headline caught my eye and I fell for it. “Shrimps sign mega £1/4m deal”. With a headline like that, you’d expect a bit of meat on the bone. Well, not with The Visitor. That’s it, MFC are going to sign [...]
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