So, that’s enough of me, talking about me. What do you all think about me?

[gamble]

👍
I didn’t know that.

[Drone]

The Senior Railcard is available to all when you reach 60; be sure to apply a few weeks in advance. £30 a year or £70 for three years. 1/3 off all tickets: paid for after a couple of return blasts Smokewards

My State Pension will kick in when I’m 66 but I can get a bus pass when I’m 65: 21 months and 9 months time respectively

roll on not really

[IanDavies]

You’re welcome, gamble.

Tbh, I avoid all forms of public transport like the plague so if I am ever sent a bus pass it is unlikely ever to be used.

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I did think the age had been extended in line with the rest if the country.

The London freedom pass has an equivalent estimated value of £1800 a year.
They threatened to cancel it but it has been restricted more recently at peak times. You can only use it now between 930 am and 11pm on tube / bus network or any time weekends. (You can also use it on buses countrywide) – supposedly to help fund TFL

Also…( Apart from railcard)

National Express offers a Senior Coachcard for people who are 60 and over. It costs £12.50 and offers a third off your travel throughout the year.

Being can be

[Anonymous]

You won’t be sent a bus pass, Ian, you have to apply. I was eligible for one a couple of years ago but didn’t bother- I’m also not a fan of public transport

[gamble]

Tank is quite right he has been banned from buses.

Chief have you moved inwards ?

[IanDavies]

I don’t think I will be bothering either, Tank.

I can’t even remember the last time I went on a bus or a train.

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[Anonymous]

Same here. Public transport wouldn’t be so bad, if it wasn’t full of the public.

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[Anonymous]

Would be cool to have a double-decker all to myself – the driver would have to pick me up, naturally.

Same with a train, a double-decker would take me to the train station where the empty train would be waiting for me, rather than the other way around.
No hanging around and no mixing with the hoi polloi

[IanDavies]

Tank has nailed it – the problem with public transport is the public.

I am not sure what you mean by “moved inwards,” gamble?

In a physical or psychological sense?

I physically reside in the Basingstoke suburbs in Hampshire and have done for nigh on 20 years.

Psychologically, I was never been close to the general public in the first place, but nevertheless contrive to withdraw from them and society a little more every day!

No man is an island, however.

Friendship, like many food and drink types, is fine and even beneficial in moderation!

As for Double Deckers being remotely cool on any level….I think not! – https://youtu.be/CAKobLjH3tA

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[gamble]

I trust you treated yourself yesterday Ian. I am a RICE MAN but transform on birthdays into Barry Dennis and enjoy his de riguer cow & CHIPS and an unfair bet on the obligatory, vanishing egg.

It is a widely known, but sometimes disputed fact, that God is everywhere with a small church and attendant adoring congregation in Basingstoke filled with coachloads of contrite hooligans kneeling there in their blue and yellow scarves, well outside the orbit of the away players; The dirty London Town sinners and the heinous suited criminals of Bankbrokeciti.

TFL is strapped for collections and is highly irrelegious. For your penance say ten times ” God is everywhere but I will pay on the bus for ten years.”

[Drone]

Not a fan of buses but I do enjoy intercity train rides hither and yon. Fortunately I can choose when to travel so can avoid mixing with the great unwashed at peak times and at weekends. First Class is a boon, and if you can get yourself organised and book well in advance the cost can be little more than Standard

Being a two’s-company-three’s-a-crowd kinda guy all my life who relishes periods of self-isolation and social distancing this last year has not been particularly trying, though I do miss those rides on the rattler to nowhere in particular for a few nights in a Premier Inn…those breakfasts, oh those breakfasts

I’ve ambled the streets of Reading and Wokingham but not Basingstoke: it’s gone on my bucket list

[gamble]

Drone’s post confirms it – everyone on here is a LOONER 🧐

[IanDavies]

I made short work of a delivered King Prawn Pathia and Pilau Rice, while watching Balance Of Terror on dvd from the original Star Trek, gamble.

I am not particularly into sci-fi but, like Doctor Who under its second and third incarnations, it triggers a lot of childhood memories and I am sentimental and nostalgic like that.

It was a good day, but then I treat every day like it’s my birthday.

I actually liked Basingstoke when I first moved there from the Metropolis in 2002 but, as the years passed, the novelty faded and I now like it best for: Waitrose, its position on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders with Surrey, West Sussex, Dorset, Wiltshire, the coast, the M3 and the M4 all within easy reach.

It’s a good location for me but, as a place in its own right, it is ill deserving of a place on anyone’s bucket list.

It’s football club has endured calamities you could write a book about – in fact, someone did.

But I haven’t read it – and I guess that tells its own story.

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It reads like a perfect day,

Just a perfect day
Drink some Kirk in the park
And then later, when it gets dark
We go home

Just a perfect day
Watch some DVD in the loo
Then later Dr Who, too
And then roam.

Then there’s saddo me
livin in me jar

Here in my jar
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It’s the only way to live in …
Jars

Here in my jar
I can only believe
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days in jars. 🧐

[IanDavies]

You will be less than amazed to know I was always a bit of a Gary Numan fan.

Not a “Numanoid” – I have never wanted to “belong” to anything, a sentiment surely Numan himself could empathise with.

But I saw him at a venue in Camden Town on a revival tour circa 1990 and he was highly entertaining.

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