Today would have been SWT’s 30th birthday!

The first daffodil of the year has flowered in my garden… a welcome sign that brighter days will come!

Awwww, Paul referred to Ruairi as his boyfriend 🥰 Catching up on Monday’s episode of #TheArchers

Oh, Brad and Amber 🥺 Catching up on Sunday’s episode of #TheArchers

If you see this, post an archer. #TheArchers

How can we be left in such suspense on a Friday night???? #TheArchers

Falon? Harrison? Jazza? My word… #TheArchers

Happy New Year, y’all!

I know I dislike George, but he can’t die on NYE! #TheArchers

George needs to go… I shouldn’t be getting this angry at Radio 4! #TheArchers

I’ve just warmed to Amber! #AmberSlappedGeorge #TheArchers

Papped at work last week by @skyehaynes.me !

I marked #HillfortWednesday with the mighty Maiden Castle seen at dusk from a train heading west…

Class 150 unit 231 at Basingstoke on its way to the Watercress Line. Tuesday, 23rd December 2025

Proof that, despite pushing 40, I still have a full head of hair!

Farewell Railtours at Guildford Class 455s on the South Western 1983-2025

My ode to the 455s

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Bulleid light pacific, 34028 “Eddystone” saunters toward Bournemouth, some 25mins late, working 5Z89 from Salisbury to Swanage this evening (Saturday, 13th December 2025).

47812 and Black 5 44871 working 5Z23, the 1038 Southall WCR - Bristol Kingsland Road positioning move, spotted at Reading today (21st November).

At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, we will remember them.

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I’ve never been held up in a ship-traffic-jam before, but today the Wightlink I happened to be on was held out by Spitbank Fort for three much larger vessels to go around us 😵‍💫

Today, I made: • Apple, Berry and Currant Jelly • Summer Berry (strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, redcurrant and blackcurrant) Jam

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On Wednesdays I wear pink… but today… #MeanGirls

Passing trains may suck you off… 4M46 the 1419 Southampton Western Docks to Trafford Park Euro Terminal seeing passing through platform 4 at Basingstoke this afternoon

The diminutive Cistus (rock rose) continues to flower despite the shortening days and long shadows at this time of year

A pleasant surprise yesterday lunchtime! 📍 Basingstoke

@tomhepworthtv has impeccable taste in CMEs! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

200yrs ago today…

The C word has been made. I’m exhausted, there’s mountains of washing up but the smell is AMAZING and makes up for it. Tomorrow’s task is to unmould five varieties, cut, shave and stamp them… oh, and more washing up!

Flashy bang, bang! ⛈️

Bulleid West Country class 34028 “Eddystone” running on the up fast past Barton Mill, Basingstoke, today (3rd Sept 2025)

Nocturnal spotting of Clan Line hauling 1Z30 Worcester Shrub Hill to London Victoria this evening - the sound of Bulleid’s brilliance! 📍 Mays Lane, Earley.

This is what I think of when I see the flag of St George plastered everywhere and talk of camps and deportations by those wishing to ‘reclaim are [sic] country’.

Happy 8th Birthday, South Western Railway!

I think he’s forgotten that they’re Senators within his own party

Some more Bristolian scenes 1. Bristol Byzantine architecture of The Granary, Little King Street. 2. Robinson’s Depositories, Hotwell Road. 3. Aeroplanes in the roof of the Café at Aerospace Bristol. 4. The Grade II listed Hangar 16U (dating from 1917) being restored for community use at Brabazon.

Love is love! 📍 Brabazon, Bristol

Some of Gromit Unleashed 3 📍 Bristol, United Kingdom

Some Bristolian scenes… 1. Bristol Byzantine architecture of the old Gardiner Haskins site 2. Intercity bridge over the Avon at Temple Meads 3. Bristol VR bus outside M-Shed 4. Faience façade oh the former refrigeration and meat packaging site for Swift & Co. in Braggs Lane

A veritable glut of runner beans… that’s my evening sorted: dicing, blanching and freezing!

Naff shots of 57002 “Winston Churchill” at Basingstoke earlier today.

My colleagues are climbing Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) in the dark this Saturday, raising money for Scotty’s Little Soldiers! www.justgiving.com/team/swrtrai...

The potatoes have really suffered in the heat this year, but they’re soldering on 🥔 #DigForVictory2025

The runner beans are running… they’re windswept and had heat stroke #DigForVictory2025

The tomatoes are tomatoing… and the strawberries continue to fruit! 🍅 🍓 #DigForVictory2025