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It was about 18 miles. For the last bit I walked down to Langsett and over the hill to Penistone.

Does anybody else have anomia? In its severest form, you just can’t remember anybody’s name, but I’m sure I have it to some extent. So I might recognise a forum member’s face on a station, but be embarrassed to approach them as I can’t remember their name. It’s the same on forum meets: I might...

Quite. But that’s what people think.

If someone forgot to shut the door it was ‘Were you born in a barn?’ But the intellectual step up was ‘Are you Jesus or something?’’Why?’ ‘Because…’

Recently, I have been talking to various people in pubs, which, evidently, I haven’t been able to do for a bit. The general opinion is that Boris is an idiot, but he’s done the vaccination programme well. Nobody mentions Labour. They have become inconsequential.

I have just read the top article about Watt, and it wasn’t him involved in the slave trade, but possibly his dad. Now that is going too far.

Lovely walk from Snake Summit over Bleaklow to Penistone today. Got there on a full X57 from Sheffield, which is good to see. Now sat outside Spread Eagle in Penistone, £2.75 for a pint of Strongbow! Photo shows the Wain Stones - ‘Nature’s Kiss’

Every day is a learning day!

Erm…Germany and Belgium.

When I was 17 we went on a field trip to Shropshire and this firm provided the transport. I think their full name was “Salopia Saloon Coaches”. Of course we called them “Sloppy Saloon Coaches”. Don’t understand the French reference though.

Every morning on Sheffield station, as I am waiting for my train, I see the XC HST come in. The carriages seem ‘dented’ with some undulations above the window line, not smooth as you would expect. The paint is unbroken and I am not supposing for one moment there is any problem with the...

On average 2019/20, 31 passengers a day, so 15/16 coming and 15/16 going.

Bursledon also has direct trains to Southampton.

Norwood, a suburb of Rotherham, also has a St Leonard’s church.

Another writer, the diarist Parson James Woodforde, also lived in a Weston, but Weston Longville, near Norwich.