City fan' letter in "Radio Times"

[Blue Mist]

’Fraid not. Maybe I'm slow, maybe it's Sunday morning.

I'm derailing the thread :-)

 

[Blue Mist]

This is all very surprising! The lovely Colin, aka PrestwichBlue, alerted me to this on Twitter yesterday and I thought, well, I'll swoop in and say hi to everyone.

This is me. Okay, it's not exactly me, it is my dad. He does not have a smartphone or a computer. No interest in technology at all! So when he's annoyed about something and wants to write a letter in, it's muggins here who has to be dictated to like a secretary :-D

I think he was quite shocked to see it printed tbh! He's had a million letters printed in his life, all over the place (NME in the 70s, Mojo and Uncut in recent decades) but he didn't think the RT would fancy it. He was thrilled it went in and is deeply tickled by the existence of this thread, which I told him about yesterday, just after I explained what a message board/forum is!

Anyway, we are, obviously, blues going back a LONG time. I'm 45 and went to my first match in 1988. He's 71 (won't thank me for mentioning it!) and went to his first match in 1960. His dad, Eli, went to THE first match at Maine Road in 1923 (Eli was born here, but his fam were not; we're Eastern European Jews, on both sides). So we have had blues in our family for almost 100 years. Which is mad! Dad had a season ticket from 1977-95, also (he couldn't before then, he had a Sat job at Burtons on Deansgate, if any of you are old enough to remember that).

I moved to London 22 years ago nearly, so I see all the away games (when I can get tix, which tbh is irritatingly not often these days). We go to one home match per year, he likes to just do one now. I'm also sometimes on the great Ste Tudor's 93.20 podcast if you wish to seek that out!

Lots of love to all the blues
CTID

Liz

Oy, stop derailing the thread. Now where was I, ah yes I was in Guatemala, 1982, maybe 3, there was this lady with a beard.....

 

[Blue Mist]

And I've just read a fascinating article about the history of fatal accidents involving steam locomotives on British railways with engines coning off the tracks or hitting objects or people lying on them. Goes all the way back to the Stockton & Darlington in 1825 and includes an account of an accident caused by workmen in L'pool in 1835 "carelessly leaving planks of wood on the line."

But it wasn't there fault. It was the train drivers fault surely, oh wait, no he'd be in the rmt union, ergh it was Thatchers fault, and the French riot police

 

[Blue Mist]

And to keep this as on topic as possible. Fact: at the height of the so-called railway mania of the 1830s and 40s, at least one stately home had a spur built onto a main line (all railways were of course private), so that selected trains could come straight to the house.
Travelling by rail was both dangerous — there were many accidents — and filthy. To get an idea, look at Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed. If you look closely, you see that the carriages are open. So, often, most of the smoke would have been blown back in people's faces.

Re your last para, is that why they wrote that famous song....
They, asked me how I knew
It was Esso Blue
I of course replied
With lower grades one buys
Smoke gets in your eyes.


What ! Bloody mods pm'g me again about summat.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

This place is going to the dogs.
All this talk of trays, and no mention of this



Pfft

 

[HolisticJim]

I’m Stewart Tray …

I'm Stuart tray and so is my wife

 

[EnzoMCFC]

We've all had our fingers in his daughter Donna

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Oy, stop derailing the thread. Now where was I, ah yes I was in Guatemala, 1982, maybe 3, there was this lady with a beard.....

फ़ॉन्ट बीवी you ever knew आद्य. That should be:
Don't believe you ever knew a lady.
2nd line ok so l can't understand why the first w was wrongut does anyone know how to fix the spellchecker ? At first it happened only on Blue Moon but just one word crept into What's App.
Out of curosity does any one know what language it is?

 

[J.G.Blue.]

फ़ॉन्ट बीवी you ever knew आद्य. That should be:
Don't believe you ever knew a lady.
2nd line ok so l can't understand why the first w was wrongut does anyone know how to fix the spellchecker ? At first it happened only on Blue Moon but just one word crept into What's App.
Out of curosity does any one know what language it is?

He Brew?

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Turner reportedly had himself strapped to the front of a loco and driven into a rainstorm in order to get the right "feel" for that painting before he started work on it.

I wonder what he did before he painted nudes?