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Hi. I want to make an overnight trip to Ely. I have a voucher code for a 20% discount for a hotel. The voucher runs until some time in March, however the stay needs to be booked by the end of this month (ie Wednesday). I was thinking of booking this Thursday-Friday, as it's a good price, and the...

Just had a little overnight trip to St. Albans, but I was forced to buy a standard ticket from the TVM at the station, instead my preferred method of buying online and having the ticket in my possession before I get there. I noticed there are barcode readers on the barriers at St. Albans, so...

Why have they suddenly added a pay rise to their demands, despite only just having one...

Just got back from seeing this at the Odeon Leicester Square. Another tour de force by Christopher Nolan - I've seen quite a few of his movies. Cillian Murphy and the rest of the cast were excellent. Glad they kept it realistic by having the sound lag behind the images during the explosions...

I’m due to travel to Edinburgh from the 15th to the 19th of next month. Exactly the week that this overtime ban thing is happening. Now I’m unsure about whether I want to chance going or not. Changing it means paying more money for the hotel and probably the train tickets.

Put up an item to sell, and (unlike before) there was absolutely no option to set postage costs. The item sold, but the buyer is saying it's not letting him pay, and postage is coming up as "freight delivery". What am I supposed to do??

Bought an item from a seller in the US, I've been following the tracking and up until now it's been shown as en route. On Monday it came up that it had cleared customs so I was expecting it imminently. Now suddenly it's come up that it's been delivered....on Friday! How can be clear customs...

Forty years ago today. I was in primary school at the time, and the teacher, Mr. McCaughn (unsure if that’s the correct spelling), put it on for the class to watch. On one of those TVs they had in schools on a tall trolley that had to be wheeled into the classroom with doors that covered the...

Dug out some of my old school books recently. Several are covered in wallpaper. I certainly remember doing it to my books when I was at school; I guess because we were told to. But why? What purpose does it serve? :?:

Signed up for Paramount+.........for Star Trek. Plugged it into my home cinema set up expecting to get a Dolby Digital or DTS signal. Nothing, Just plain old stereo. Did some Googling and apparently this is all they offer. I'm not sure if the stereo signal is even Dolby Surround encoded as...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/declassification-of-first-class-on-busy-long-distance-services.235750/ Or we could stop mucking about with railway terminology that has been perfectly fine for ~150 years. We can't have "guards" anymore, we have to have "train...

Chickens coming home to roost. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/lockdown-effects-feared-to-be-killing-more-people-than-covid/ar-AA10OyYi?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f2c4657fafe7452d84480d410dd9a472

Sold a mountain bike dropper post the other week. Sent it to the registered address. According to the tracking there have been three delivery attempts, and the latest says "Parcel returned to Sub Depot" which I think might mean it's on it's way back to me, but I'm not sure. What am I supposed to...

I can't work it out. I don't understand why they've made something that should be simple so complicated! All I've worked out how to do is add individual songs, but nothing shows up in artists under the music tab. Even if I follow a band nothing shows up! I'd rather add bands have to go through...

I live outside London. Whenever I buy a Travelcard to go up to London I load it onto The KEY. I’m currently staying with my brother, who lives in Eltham. We’re planning to go up to London tomorrow, and tried to buy a ticket in my usual way. Apparently you can’t! Does this mean I’ve got to faff...

Recently I've been thinking a lot about when I was at school. When I started secondary school I ended up at Kentwood School for Boys in Penge (now closed down), and quite honestly I was put in the class from hell. Lots of misbehaving and we ended up being given class detentions what must have...

Just made a purchase on Sphock. Never used it before. For some reason the seller wanted me to text them directly instead of talking through the site, and now they want to pay them directly when they deliver the item and cancel the deal on Sphock. I don't like the sound of this. On eBay this...

Right, first a bit of background. As a teenager in the '90s I attended a training scheme for young people focused on electronics and PC repair, called Ouset ITeC, located in a building called Drake House in Creekside, Deptford in London. Now, on the exterior wall (facing the road) was a large...

Hi. Reading about the bus crash in London the other day brought back memories of the time I myself, as a schoolboy, was a passenger on a bus that was involved in a collision in London back in the '80s. It was a P3 of a bus type my research tells me was Leyland National. It was a head on crash...

First they throw them under the bus by scrapping the free licences, and letting the BBC take the blame, and now I've been hearing on the news that they're going to scrap the licence fee totally and replace it with some unspecified alternative form of funding. We all know what means, don't we...