With discussion of the Brexit divorce bill taking up much of our commenters time elsewhere we’re highlighting some of the other conversations you’ve been having on site today, from lost rail services to a vinyl revival – to new developments in the search for the abominable snowman.
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Rail services lost under 1960s Beeching cuts may reopen
Plans to restore rail services lost under the Beeching cuts of the 1960s have been drawn up by the government.
‘It’s easy to talk up these projects but quite a lot harder to deliver them’
I live on the Borders railway and it is a tremendous thing – though we are hoping for a rail extension to Carlisle now the line has proved so successful. I worry that it’s easy to talk up these projects but quite a lot harder to deliver them – and rural communities in particular would benefit if the government were serious.
AnnYearsley
‘I’m afraid this is just another bluff’
So “The government will invite proposals to reopen lines ... ”. The government already knows about the large number of proposals, many of which have been around for years, which are ready and waiting with excellent business cases. Why not just do it? I’m afraid this is just another bluff, like the so-called HS 3 in the North, proposed with no funding but a lot of bluster, to show how forward thinking the government is.
Perima
The vinyl revival proves it: we love a bit of inconvenience
Demand for vinyl is officially soaring, and a “revival” often derided by aficionados who insist the medium never went away has brought record players back into the mainstream, according to figures from HMV. But is all as it seems? Writer Nigel Kendall isn’t so sure, but still welcomes back the format.
‘I wouldn’t call it an inconvenience, its pleasurable’
As a 20 something I never had vinyl growing up, but I do have a few of my favourite albums on vinyl, because some times I want to go to the effort of setting it up then sitting back and just enjoying the music. Something I don’t do enough of in most of my day to day, where listening to music is just a background for everything else. For me its the same as making the effort to make a cup of tea, sit down with a book, and give it my full attention, be fully engrossed, and block out the life around me for a little bit. I wouldn’t call it an inconvenience, its pleasurable.
workshy_freeloader
DNA sampling exposes nine ‘yeti specimens’ as eight bears and a dog
Readers enjoyed this story shedding light on the abominable snowman.
Brian Blessed told a wonderful story of his travels in Tibet and his enquiries about the yeti. He met an elder of a village who claimed to have seen a yeti in his youth. Brian asked him what it looked like and the elder looked at him, paused for a moment and said “it looked like you”.
Paul Buxton
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