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[alexsarll]

Spotted at Finsbury Park station: elderly nincompoop, forlornly patting his one-day travelcard against the Oyster reader.

Weekend update will follow once I have less than 300 new mails trying to crack my inbox asunder.

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[cappuccino-kid.livejournal.com]

Barrington! Wednesday still on?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Mail me the address &c.

[cappuccino-kid.livejournal.com]

is it press.pa or pa.press? I always seem to get it wrong.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

alex.sarll@pa.press.net

[renegadechic.livejournal.com]

i always wondered, those oyster readers have been there for aeons as far as i can remember, even since i was little so were they used as anything before?

Nicky xxx

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

They came in before Oysters were on general release, but only a couple of years ago - since I've been in London, certainly.

an old fart writes

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

when I was first in London, we had little paper tickets which you had to show to people. Some of us think the automated barriers are a bit new fangled...

Re: an old fart writes

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I have seen pictures of those, but never heard a first hand account of their use. Thank you for giving me this connection to the past.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

My card for getting into work is an oyster type flashy card but I don't use tubelike transport enough these days to warrant owning an oyster but when I do, I still find myself longing to flash my day travelcard. It's too tempting.

[guntrip.livejournal.com]

Spotted at Finsbury Park station: elderly nincompoop, forlornly patting his one-day travelcard against the Oyster reader.

I feel very wrong for laughing so much at this/

[theresnorain.livejournal.com]

It actually made me a bit tearful. Either, I'm still ill and brain addled or my old man obsessions is getting out of hand.