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...and these headphones they supply with ipods and the like are driving me nuts: and I swear down one day there'll be a death on British Rail.

I can just imagine the headline ~



"Commuter found dead, their headphones wrapped round their neck."



I mean, why do they call them personal headphones, when ytou can hear every word!?!

May the tenth



It was the tenth. I had risen early; and so, I was early at the station and the fact that so many people were on the platform suggested the train was due.

I had looked down the line and seeing no train in the distance, I’d begun to walk the platform, enjoying a morning smoke.

Finally I’d got to the white line that designates the end of public access.

And as I exhale slowly, tasting the smoke, I notice a shape moving in the shadows of the bushes adjacent to the track.

In the early morning sunlight, I see a fox cub emerge from the bushes, moving cautiously about; to the sound of early morning birdsong.

Sitting on the train to Wavertree, I sit in a window seat, as usual.

On my left, a girl stands on Platform 5, in tight brown corduroy

trousers, that fall over the light tan boots, that she wears.



And, I can’t help but notice her, doing leg-stretching exercises

akin to a fencers lunge: a move that I recall making a lifetime ago.

The title of this piece is a bit of a misnomer. But, it was blustery and rainy all night ~

and as I lay there, I’d listened to the rainfall ; and, the early morning birdsong.

And, today there was blue sky. But, I’d wanted to talk of yesterday, when I went to see my first convention. It was a Dr Who Convention at The Cavern in Liverpool.

Never have a done such a thing ~ meaning, admit that I’m a Fan, anywhere, or with anyone else, other than with one or two friends and here on VR.

And I got to shake Debbie Watling’s hand. And it intrigues me that she had seemed quite genuinely surprised at the interest Fans have in her, today.

(She had played Victoria, the second Doctors assistant.)

My explanation for her had been that I had a good childhood, which I liked to remember: and she was part of that. She’d liked that. And, she had a good handshake…

And yes, I’m a Fan and have been a Fan of Dr Who since episode one.

So to see, Colin Baker, Debbie Watling and K9… as well as Eugene Washington, who had played the very sinister ‘Mr. Wagner,’ one of the Krillitanes, in recently shown ‘School Reunion’ … and The Cavern, Liverpool: well, that had been a good day… all that a few pints of Beamish!

So, for VR there are one of two, or three or four pics, of interest, of the day… and as I get to work on the rest, I’ll put one or two more up: and as a first experience, it was well worth it! I would give it a ten out of ten on the enjoyment scale!