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Muttering about my Life

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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

 

 

Some Unexpected Snow

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We did expect snow this afternoon, it was just that we were expecting it in a different place. It was supposed to be on high ground in Derbyshire. Instead, it snowed on the low ground of Nottingham.

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Carlton Hill – Nottingham

At 12.30 pm it started to rain. By 1.00 it had started to resemble a wintry shower.Then it began to look like snow, which it wasn’t, as none was forecast. By the time I parked by the side of the road it was beginning to stick.

I nearly went straight home, as I had things to do, but I went to visit the jewellers instead and watched from their office window as the flakes became larger and formed a four inch blanket of snow.

That, of course, was just the start of my problems.As I sat in the car to come home, the road seemed to fill with traffic. I cut through a side street and joined a main road. If only I had known what horrors lurked ahead…

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Snow in the Trees

I won’t bore you with details, but will merely point out that a fifteen minute journey took me two hours as the traffic system of Nottingham proved unable to accommodate snow and travel at the same time. I actually had to stop at KFC to use the toilets. Such are the demands of an ancient  bladder.

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Porchester Road – Nottingham

This gave me plenty of time to take photos, as a lot of the time was spent parked and waiting. It was, at the same time, both very annoying and an opportunity for photography.

It’s currently melting nicely, and I’m hoping that driving conditions will be good in the morning.

Magpie in the snow
View across the Rooftops
Snowy Detail

 

In the evening I battled with the remains of the day’s gridlock as I made it through to the Numismatic Society meeting. The speaker had managed to make it, so it seemed only fair to turn up, despite the temptation to stay at home. He was talking about his hobby – metal detecting – and was an entertaining speaker.  I now have just 4 weeks to prepare my presentation…

It seems the bridge will be staying closed for a few days more, and that the Highways Agency has been way out in its estimates of the re-opening. Julia is back on the bus tomorrow. I feel guilty but the bus was delayed badly today, and is likely to be delayed tomorrow, despite using bus lanes. In a car we have no chance of getting through without queuing for hours.

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Detail on a Snowy Day