November 30th, 2022
Food price inflation is out of control. Although the effects seem to be somewhat uneven, as we can see from this egregious example in Tesco.
Plain hobnobs for £2.25 a pack. It’s obscene but…
Chocolate hobhobs are only £1.90 a pack!
For reference plain hobnobs used to cost something like 70p not so long ago.
And before you comment that the chocolate packet is smaller, the chocolate hobhobs are still cheaper per gram!!! It’s as if the plain hobnobs are produced by getting some poor sod to scrape off the chocolate layer from the chocolate hobnobs. What is the world coming to!
November 28th, 2022
I’ve been meaning to go back to Ely ever since I walked there a month or so ago but arrived after dark. Well I finally did this weekend and went inside the cathedral, and very impressive it is too!
It seems a bit silly having enormous cathedral in such a tiny town (one of England’s smallest). You can see it from miles around too owing to the fens being completely flat. The entrance ticket is a pretty reasonable £8.50: take that, York Minster!
November 6th, 2022
It was my birthday last weekend so we took my niece for her first ever trip on the Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch railway which has been feature multiple times previously on this blog.
The train is indeed minature
It rained a lot in the morning but still a great day out. And I found something interesting! Here we see an earlier version of your correspondent standing next to engine number 12 in the distant past:
Around 1988 ish
And in exactly the same location, here’s number 12 again! (It’s the same engine, I asked, they just painted it black at some point.)
2022, note the platform refurbishment