hear my train a comin'

heya

in the realm of music speaks there's a rarely correctly applied phrase. that phrase (or if you like saying) is all killer no filler. basically it means that every single track on an album is a classic, with nothing included just to pad out the running length. just to make all aware, this post is probably the opposite of that phrase, look you see. 

oddly i do have one or two things of (comparative) interest to put on here, but i am apparently not doing them right now. consider it a mix of finding time forever slipping away from me and sheer laziness. still, i feel compelled (or obliged) to put things here regularly, so a couple of pictures and a video (yes, we've got a video) of a recent train journey (not really an adventure) shall do. 

the above picture, and indeed the below one, was captured (of course) with my VHS mode "app", with me opting for the "poster size" filter. really not at all sure what makes it poster size, yet i quite like the visual effects of it. indeed i do sorely (and sadly) miss having a Commodore 64 mode camera thing. 

with me electing (or opting) not to own a vehicle, feeling it an elaborate expense and i do enough driving during the week for verk as it is, i am somewhat reliant on the trains to see as many as possible of my (known) children. such is the sorry state of "public" transport in this country now the buses do not run on the day most convenient to see them, so train it is. as and when the trains actually run. being fair for a few weeks now they have run as scheduled, but they do tend to have bursts of issues which for whatever reason sees them cancelled at quite short notice. 

as for the title of this post, well, i dare say some of you will have got the reference. not entirely sure how accurate it is. this "split screen" VHS style video above is kind of interesting, i suppose, but not too sure any decent sound comes with it. it's not that the trains are particularly loud these days anyway, but if you can hear some of it in motion, well that's so much the better. 

nothing particularly noteworthy or interesting about this train journey. quite full, as it happens. a lot of people were using it to head north. by that of course i mean the actual north of this country (England), and not the pretend, fashionable branding of "north" as embraced so fondly by Manchester (rave on). where all the people were going i know not; i was just returning to lodgings in my place of exile. 

perhaps i should look at getting a bicycle, either of pure pedal or one of them "electric" ones. somewhat cheaper (long term) but then i would have the issue of where to store it, since such things are frequently stolen. getting a car would kind of remove the stress and worry of whether the trains are just going to do what they are suppose to, but it's all sorts of costs and other forms of stress. hey ho. 

right, well, that's all there is for this one. i can't promise the next post will be any more interesting than this one, but i shall jolly well give it a go. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!