Meeting place in Luton Airport

In message <1216044632.18962.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>, at 15:10:20 on
Mon, 14 Jul 2008, magwitch <a@c.d> remarked:
>>> No I was starting from 20 miles north of Winchester at the time
>>>about 150 miles further west and another 70 miles south from
>>>Chelmsford. I said it used to take 4 for Devon and 6 hours for
>>>Cornwall from there and was accurate.
>> But hardly on topic for a Cambridge/London audience (see NGs posted
>>to).
>
>Yes it is. We'll be living under a short-haul holding stack and
>flightpath in the near future. And Londoners will be enjoying their
>third Heathrow runway. Very ON topic actually.

Saying that it was possible to drive to the West Country all those years
ago in 4-6hrs is not topical for a Cambridge/London newsgroup.
--
Roland Perry

In message <1216051294.26184.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>, at 17:01:27 on
Mon, 14 Jul 2008, magwitch <a@c.d> remarked:
>* BY CAR Carbon cost: 0.08 tons of CO2, one way
>
>* BY RAIL Carbon cost: 0.02 tons of CO2, one way

Those figures are very suspicious for a diesel-powered high speed train.
Maybe it's for a full train and one person in a car.
--
Roland Perry

In article <1216071236.25824.1@proxy00.news.clara.net>, a@c.d (magwitch)
wrote:

> We used to stay at Carbis Bay campsite... how is the old place
> these days?

Much the same as the last time we stayed there. We added a picture of our
granddaughter on the beach at St Ives to the family collection of similar
pictures that includes her mother and grandmother.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
> In article <1216071236.25824.1@proxy00.news.clara.net>, a@c.d (magwitch)
> wrote:
>
>> We used to stay at Carbis Bay campsite... how is the old place
>> these days?
>
> Much the same as the last time we stayed there. We added a picture of our
> granddaughter on the beach at St Ives to the family collection of similar
> pictures that includes her mother and grandmother.
>

That's nice :-)

It was a working farm (hopefully still is) and you could buy fresh eggs
and milk etc. Just like Enid Blyton.

magwitch wrote:
> Just like Enid Blyton.

*shudder*..