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GhostOfClayton

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  1. Hey, Caldrail.  Good to see you're still hanging around.  I never really left UNRV as such; I just very gradually started visiting less and less until one day I found I wasn't visiting any more.

    Sorry to hear that your company went the same way as most of mine.  They all say it has nothing to do with Brexit, but somewhere in the background, a Business Analyst*  has been running Cost/Benefits Analyses, and . . . well . . . companies aren't charities, at the end of the day.

    I, like those companies, can pretty much live anywhere.  I've spent most of my adult life bouncing between various countries, so I just need to move where the money is.  I know the flag-sh@ggers will repeatedly tell you that things are going to get better in blighty 'one day', but the shelves are starting to look quite bare in OfClayton Towers, and I can't open a couple of tins of sovereignty at dinner time, or put a few logs of '2029 trade deal with Easter Island' on the fire when it gets cold.

    That said, there is some good news.  I've managed to secure one (one more than most of my ilk) gig in the UK in October as a cover for a colleague.  Also, I'm dipping my toe into the Republic of Ireland by way of two gigs in Killarney around September time.  By a quirk of the Good Friday Agreement, I'm allowed to operate there, at least until the increasingly inevitable return of Northern Ireland to the republic.  Hopefully, in a desperate attempt to delay that, the UK will join the EEA.  I'm not sure if that will mean a UK resident can have an EOTA card, but if it does, I may yet come back (as long as they promise to look after the NHS while I'm gone).

    * I know this, because I used to be one.


  2. I think they'll replace the whole bunch of 'em.  The show was getting a bit tired, anyway, and it'd be nice to see some different ways of doing it.  I'd like to see some folk from totally left field.  Chris Evans is an obvious choice, but everyone knows him.  What kind of job would (for example) Frankie Boyle do?  The bleep machine would be red hot as he battled his Morris Minor through dense, sub-Saharan undergrowth (maybe chased by Dara Ó Briain in Del-Boy's Reliant Robin, and Katie Hopkins in a VW Camper).  A woman on Top Gear?  I know!  I'll go and wash my mouth out with soap.  In fairness, though, she IS massively racist.


  3. Hi Doc.  Really good to see you back . . . and please send Mrs OfClayton and my best to Mr OfLove.

     

    Someone on a panel show over here said Top Gear could never work outside the BBC, because all the expensive cars they slagged off would be being featured in the ad break . . . until the manufacturers realised and pulled the advertising.

     

    But anyway, I can put your mind at rest.  The UK has an abundance of over-opiniated middle-aged men to fill Mr Clarkson's boots.


  4. I only started to understand what an addiction to painkillers was when I replaced paracetamol with cocodamol (soluble painkiller, and i think the same sort of thing they put in Lemsip).  I'm not addicted, but I can now see how it might happen to someone.

     

    Anyway, the up side is that I can now appreciate and savour a fine old vintage of Lemsip, just like one might appreciate a good wine.

     

    What have I learned from that? I am one damaged individual.


  5. You may struggle to reach your capital, Viggen, but I have nothing but praise for the public transport in the city itself.  Very convenient and easy to use.  That said, it was the only time when I had a client that was pickpocketed.

     

    The sleepy little village of Aquis Of The Romans has six buses a day, which isn't bad at all.


  6. I'm a bit of a sucker for sci-fi myself, Caldrail.  Looking forward to BBC2 sci-fi season this saturday.

     

    I enjoyed Prof. Cox's sci-fi offering, though 'Into Infinity' was a let down.  I remember watching it first time round as a schoolboy and being totally blown away.  This time, the dreadful1970s production values (I shouldn't judge when looking back from my post-Avatar point in time) outweighed any nostalgia.

     

    However, the overly drawn out US TV sci-fi we get nowadays always starts with some promise, but by episode 6, when nothing much has happened since episode 2, I always lose interest.  For example, Intruders, Under The Dome, etc.

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