Morning all.😀

Wembley Stadium seen thirty four years ago today following the England v Brazil game with goals from Bebeto and David Platt!

I've seen thirteen prime ministers, if Starmer goes it'll mean that that half of the PMs during my fifty five years will have served in the last ten years. It's embarrassing.

R08 HMS Queen Elizabeth arriving home to Portsmouth just now.😀

Post yourself in another country.

So close but so far from our favourite ship. #Britannia

No trains today, I’m in Southampton for a long service award which for me is 25 years.😀

Back where my story began fifty five and a half years ago.😀

Portsmouth Harbour looking glorious today.

Very poor form from the driver by not stopping about two feet earlier so that this picture of Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof in Berlin was perfectly symmetrical.

The gentle village of Rowlands Castle seen from a train earlier today.

#ThaiTuesday Classic 747 HS-UTH of Orient Thai Airlines at Phuket 9n 2003.

"I see you baby, shakin' that ass". 9V-SMV at Zurich in 2004.

I love how the #NASAArtemis mission is showing up all the flat earthers and conspiracy theorists for the idiots they are!

Well this sucks, luckily I wasn’t wearing it when the damage occurred. I’ve had that cycle helmet since 1993 so I can’t say I didn’t get good value.

Boeing 737 N5294 arriving at Las Vegas in October 2004 operating for the slightly mysterious 'JANET' airlines which is part of the USAF and ferries employees from various bases including the notorious Area 51.

“The crane now arriving on platform one Is not in service, please do not board this crane.”

I’ve found a clue to the KitKat mystery.

159107 at Axminster last Tuesday.

One of many rail replacements during the six day Portsmouth blockade, an E400 from Compass Travel at Southsea.

Trying to get on the train before other people have got off-including the guard.

Back in the depot after three months off, still not ready for train working just yet though.

Managed some squirrel spotting yesterday in Victoria Park here in Portsmouth, I absolutely love this image which turned out far better than I expected!

Go West young man they said. Well I’m no longer young but I’m heading west nevertheless starting with 166212 to Salisbury.

Two pictures taken eight years apart in 2014 and 2022 on the way past Nine Elms.

Never one to miss a bandwagon, Farage has turned up in Portsmouth to see HMS Dragon which has just left for Cyprus.

Kier for sale, and sold to various trade unions.

On my way to Southampton to see occupational health to plan what will likely be a phased return to work.😀

One from Saturday’s trip down the Abbey Line.

Off on a solo day out on my own for the first time since the leg break, crutches still required though.

Lovely conditions for the return crossing.

Lovely day for a cliff top walk in Sandown.😀

After many years on the District Line in London 484004 has now retired to the Isle of Wight.

A spontaneous trip across the water from Portsmouth starts at the Wightlink terminal today.

The one time I used Ryanair, Stansted to Prestwick on September 11th 2002. Also the only time I've used Prestwick.

Stagecoach E300 27876 at Queen Alexandra Hospital this afternoon.

Board Of Peace = Bored Of Peace.

A quarter of a century already, but never forgotten.

When I'm back at work I might try a jaunty tune for my announcements. #PeptobismolAdvert #Annoying 🎶"We call at Farnborough, Woking, Walton On Thames, Clapham Junction, Waterloo-oo-oo." 🎶

It’s nice to be able to wear both shoes again, not for any significant distance though.

A throwback to the post 9/11 months when many North American based aircraft found work elsewhere, this is Air Canada 767 C-FOCA at Sydney ready for another Tasman transit to Auckland in December 2001.

2405 seen leaving Woking on a chilly February 20th in 1996.

HMS Dauntless arriving into Portsmouth after some Mediterranean manoeuvres.

Island Flyer heading off to Ryde this afternoon.

February 19th through the years. 320307 at Balloch in 1996, 66183 at Newport in 2000, 313215 at Fratton in 2022 and VH-OJP climbing over Wraysbury heading to Heathrow in 2005.

Twenty years ago climbing out of Heathrow on Virgin A340-600 G-VNAP for some winter warmth in Los Angeles on February 16th 2006.

I'm not sure the latest cutbacks to the fire service have been fully thought through.

BA A380 G-XLEL over Portsmouth this morning on the Miami to London flight.

February 13th 2005 was my longest day, all forty three hours of it! I started the day in Sydney, hopped over to Auckland before crossing the Pacific for tea in Los Angeles! Here's N180UA in Sydney, ZK-NBA in Auckland, the wing of 747 ZK-SUI over the Pacific and N840MH at LA.

Home on the bus as the trains are a little delayed at the moment.