Date : Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:40:29 +0100
From : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
I did fly to Gatwick last year, because it was cheaper than the train (on
the face of it) but it's not something I would repeat. It did end up costing a
lot more than the train would have cost when you factor in getting to Manchester
airport and using the Gatwick express to get from Brighton back to London.
And on the way back, they wouldn't let me take my umbrella in the cabin, branding
it an "offensive weapon". I argued that it was allowed on at Manchester, to
be confronted with the reply "We're not Manchester" with all that sunny Southern
disposition we Northerns have long come to expect.
That's enough Travel, back to Beebing....
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob [mailto:robert@...]
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Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
Hmm...
You can fly...
But earliest I can find on Sunday 13th Sep gets you to Leeds/Bradford
at 13.30. (deps Gatwick at 12.20) not too bad at ?35 though. Prob
cost as much again for a taxi to the hotel though :-(
On 21/07/2009, Ian Wolstenholme <bbcmailinglist@...> wrote:
> Hmm, the Manchester to Huddersfield leg of the journey is threatening
> to scupper the whole enterprise: there aren't any direct trains from
> Manchester to Huddersfield on Sunday 13th September 2009 due to
> engineering works (although there are direct trains from Huddersfield
> to Manchester, so I can get home, and in fact I could even arrive in
> Manchester by direct train from Huddersfield at a time when there
> aren't any trains leaving Manchester, so presumably they are only
> working on odd-numbered platforms or something).
>
> The best bet might be the 9am train mentioned earlier, although
> Virgin don't seem to want people to know about it: if I ask their
> website for departures from London to Huddersfield on that day
> after 7am it comes up with the 12.35 departure mentioned earlier,
> looking for earlier trains then gives the 9pm departure the previous
> night (before the Proms finale has happened) and then asking for later
> trains finally turns up the 9am one.
>
> I could go by National Express from Manchester to Huddersfield
> but unfortunately I would have to leave at 9.15, which is 90
> minutes before the earliest time I could arrive, go to Sheffield,
> wait there for 2 hours 20 mins and then go to Huddersfield, arriving
> at 4.45pm. To get home again the same day I would have to leave at 7 am,
> over two hours before the coach getting me there sets off from its
> departure point.
>
> My brain hurts....
>
> L.M. Gumby
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ian Wolstenholme [mailto:bbcmailinglist@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:33:20 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
>
> Try not to use the same website I did! It seems to be unreliable in
> train times involving Yorkshire!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
> [mailto:jgh@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: 21 Jul 2009 15:07:22 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Current List of Exhibitors @ Acorn World 2009 (Sept
>
>> Message-ID: <359NguJwe4390S11.1248168184@...>
>
> "Dave Moore" wrote:
>> > however I will need someone else to 'take care' of the MDFS
>> JGH - are you reading? :)
>
> Yes, I'm planning on being there. Just need to check out train
> times, etc.
>
> --
> J.G.Harston - jgh@... - mdfs.net/User/JGH
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> of the party. They are ageing and their ideals have also passed,
> dispersed by the contrarities of daily struggles.
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