Plastic Transport Tokens – Nottingham
Looking over my life again, and formulating, with hindsight, a plan for its progress, I should have been a TV critic. I could then have played to my strengths and watched TV all day. Then I could have written about it, appeared as a talking head, done celebrity quizzes and, if lucky, avoided reality TV. Compared to quizzes it always looks so hard. Two months living in a jungle with people I don’t like would be enough for me to put Plan B. That’s the one where I solve the twin problems of hunger and irritation by roasting one of the more annoying contestants and eating them. I’m a Cannibal, Get Me Out of Here!
I could write a book in jail and have a film deal waiting for me when I got out.
Well, it’s one version of my life and how it could have gone. Other lives, I suppose, are available.
I’m beginning to become more adept at writing short pieces for the Numismatic Society Facebook page. I think I mentioned yesterday that I had done one on the Loughborough Carillon. That isn’t needed for a week or two, which is a shame, becauseI can easily do two or three a week. They are getting easier and they help me avoid the real work of the September Presentation. That link will take you to a piece I just did on plastic transport tokens from Nottingham Corporation Transport. The pictures are the ones from the Facebook article. If I use them it saves me the trouble of being creative.
Plastic ARP Transport Token – Nottingham – Home Front
The Loughborough Carillon sounds like an interesting place to visit and listen to the recitals.
You will get your September talk done in time, and it will be a good one!
🙂 There is no choice with September. It will happen! 🙂 After years of thinking a carillon was a bell tower I was surprised to find it is an actual instrument. It seems there a lot in America too. We have very few – they don’t seem to have caught on.
I’ve never heard one. They sound lovely. I had to look up if there were any near here. There is on at the University of Oregon, about an hour southwest of here.
https://news.uoregon.edu/content/emus-new-carillon-bells-are-tolling-you-every-15-minutes
Interesting story. I’ve never actually heard the Loughborough one. It was one of those things on my mental list thirty years ago and I never got round to it.
Plan B might be popular
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Practice makes perfect. 😉
My plan is to steal a lot of money and invest it and then confess and go to jail and then come out in ten years and cash the investment and then keep the profits and give the principal back and write a book about it but I don’t know how to get the money in the first place. So I do other things and walk around with regret.
One of my plans for old age care is to commit a reasonably serious white collar crime so they put me in an open prison with three meals a day, TV, medicala nd dental care and a library. That way I don’t have to sell the house or give up my private pension. I just need to find the right crime. The beauty of this plan is that I don’t need to get away with it. In fact, I need to get caught. A friend of mine tells me Italian weather and prison food is very good.
We should set up a plan as partners.
Two heads are better than one, so that sounds good. I did wonder about applying to come to an Australian jail because the weather is better and I like BBqs, but I checked on Wiki and it tells me you stopped accepting English prisoners in 1868.