Airport, you've got a smiling face
Jul. 1st, 2004 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaCan anyone confirm/deny the continued existence of the Heathrow/Gatwick Tube ? Looking online for it last night, I couldn't find anything about it, let alone a timetable.
The airline bus (the blue one) which now runs has timetables on line (did it replace the Tube ?), but sadly they weren't very obliging. If someone in Oxford wants to be in Gatwick for 7am, they can either catch the 5:15 bus and be late, or catch the 4am bus and be stupidly early.
All of which explains why, by 7am this morning, I was already driving back round the M25, boogying to Walk of Life. Well, all right, nothing really explains the Dire Straits.
I love the smell of benzine in the morning.
The airline bus (the blue one) which now runs has timetables on line (did it replace the Tube ?), but sadly they weren't very obliging. If someone in Oxford wants to be in Gatwick for 7am, they can either catch the 5:15 bus and be late, or catch the 4am bus and be stupidly early.
All of which explains why, by 7am this morning, I was already driving back round the M25, boogying to Walk of Life. Well, all right, nothing really explains the Dire Straits.
I love the smell of benzine in the morning.
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Date: 2004-07-01 12:58 am (UTC)Dunno about gatwick, though vague memory of seeing it (the bus, not the airport!) at the bus station suggests it is still about.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:02 am (UTC)Hmm. You don't know of its website offhand, do you ? I thought it was run by the Tube people (even if it's not called that), but the Tube website deals exclusively with the Oxford->Central London one.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:08 am (UTC)Again, can't speak for Gatwick.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:17 am (UTC)Bum.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:12 am (UTC)The Oxford tube is run by Stagecoach: http://www.stagecoach-oxford.co.uk/oxfordtube/ and has no mention of airport services. So I suspect that you're stuffed.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 01:21 am (UTC)Look, it's early, alright? Go back to sleep. Or better yet, let me go back to sleep. I've got a headache already. Need caffeine. Waaah...
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 01:56 am (UTC)If there were two bus services running to Gatwick, it'd suggest that coaches might be more regularly available, which is why I was looking for the other service.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 01:50 am (UTC)There is also a direct rail link between Reading and Gatwick which apparently turns into a luxury coach at night. Sort of like a pumpkin I guess.
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Date: 2004-07-01 02:13 am (UTC)Mmmm... squashy orange seats!
How was Iceland ?
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Date: 2004-07-01 10:10 am (UTC)Marvellous, we now have many many photos.
Some of them don't have ice in.
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:50 am (UTC)(Not Barenaked Ladies, but the subject header!)
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Date: 2004-07-01 01:59 am (UTC)<sings>
Airport!
Dum dum dum ooo-ee-ooo
</sings>
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Date: 2004-07-01 02:10 am (UTC)Oh you can always rely on me to be a sad old 70's/80's throwback! :-)
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Date: 2004-07-01 03:13 am (UTC)"Dancing the night away" doomp-doomp
"Dancing the night away"
Am I close, or in totally the wrong universe?
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Date: 2004-07-01 03:25 am (UTC)(I can't because I don't know the words well enough. Dum dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum dum, taking the band on the road. )
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Date: 2004-07-01 03:55 am (UTC)Regrettably most of their other stuff, Dancing The Night Away included, impressed me less.
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Date: 2004-07-01 04:00 am (UTC)Incidentally, do you have any idea why Rat might be absolutely dog slow ? I know it's likely to be busy, but I can't even listen to a single track off it - just get buffering errors. Is this just me distorting technology again ? Onebyone doesn't seem to be having problems with it, cos I asked.
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Date: 2004-07-01 04:09 am (UTC)For the benefit of non-Tao'ers, we should probably take this thread to regular email!
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Date: 2004-07-01 04:16 am (UTC)Rat hates me. Dan's machine hates me. The stuff I'm working on hates me. Vodafone, Evesham and HMV, in their individual ways, all hate me.
I think I'll go and eat worms.
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Date: 2004-07-01 04:27 am (UTC)<Homer Simpson>Mmmm, worms!</Homer Simpson>
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Date: 2004-07-01 08:15 am (UTC)I remembered that. Except that I didn't know you were him, so to speak.
Another one to add to my collection !
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Date: 2004-07-01 08:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 09:11 am (UTC)Yet again.
(Well, if it wasn't me, I'm sure
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Date: 2004-07-01 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 09:20 am (UTC)