No Metro
Week from Monday 29th May 2023 - The Giro D'Italia sort of fizzled out in the final week and all focus was on the "GC BATTLE", as these things tend to. Typical GC these days - Sod-all happens throughout the three weeks, then it all gets decided on the final Saturday! As I predicted, this race was all about Roglic and the Welsh wassock 'playing it safe' while everybody else was still trying to put on an actual RACE. I found myself secretly cheering on UAE's JOÃO ALMEIDA in the final couple of days, if only for the fact that he represented a realistic "Anybody but Jumbo or Ineos" ticket... Still, at least one could enjoy the scenery a little better once the last of the rain had cleared!
ALEX KIRSCH, who would normally be seen as a 'lead-out man' for MADS PEDERSEN (if he were still here), had an opportunity to contest the SPRINT in his own right. But he had to settle for second place - he wasn't ever going to beat Mark Cavendish, was he?
But even the final day's laps around sunny ROME weren't as enjoyable to watch as the women's pro races at the RIDE LONDON event this weekend (although the final result was equally disappointing from a TREKky point of view!).
When I next get to watch pro-cycling on the telly, it will be for the TOUR DE FRANCE*. By then, the TREK FACTORY RACING team will have a new sponsor. No longer named for an Italian coffee machine, but for a German knock-'em-out-cheap supermarket chain - Folks, I give you LiDL TREK! I expect to see all sorts of variant on the "Every LiDL helps" puns popping up on the SOSHUL MEEJER over the next couple of months. (I must remember to check out their infamous 'MIDDLE AISLE' for some nice primary-coloured team merchandise! You never know!?!)
(*No, wait! I nearly forgot about the DAUPHINE! scratch that...)
There was a BRAND NEW episode of "MIDSOMER MURDERS" for the Bank Holiday. Hoorah! Always welcome! But unfortunately, this particular murder mystery revolved around an amateur dramatic society putting on a production of GILBERT & SULLIVAN. As I'm sure I must have mentioned before, I cannot abide Gilbert & Sullivan. I had to watch the whole thing with the sound turned off, for fear of having to endure even the briefest few bars of ghastly Victorian oompah shit.
WINCHESTER WEDNESDAY... was singled out for another ASLEF-led TRAIN STRIKE. I routinely scanned the RAIL ENQUIRIES web pages (as yer do...), to see how it might affect me. Would I find myself having to catch the 'DEATH VALLEY 69' bus yet again? {{{SHUDDER}}}... It turned out that, although some 'side roads' on the SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY network have ground to a standstill for the day, the main line to Waterloo isn't affected. From my own point of view, it's business as usual. I'm off to 'GIVE A SHIFT'!
However, I've noticed that there haven't been any piles of the METRO freeby newspaper on the the platforms lately, at least not in our neck of the woods. I know they've still been published, because I have occasionally picked up copies left on the seats by passengers coming down from DZAT LOONDIN. But it seems there's been nobody delivering them to us outlying areas. I should make it clear, I think it's a terrible shoddy little newspaper, but I really like their CROSSWORDS! Last night, I was able to find a couple of copies of the EVENING STANDARD left in the carriage. It's also a bloody awful rag, but at least I'll be able to see what their puzzle pages are like these days. "STANNIT! L'AL E'EN' BIPPIP!!!", as they used to say...
Wednesday evening's wind-down music was a concert on the radio by THE PHILHARMONIA conducted by SANTU-MATIAS ROUVALI, and rather splendid it was too! Really crisp and detailed renderings of PROKOFIEV's "Lieutenant Kije" suite and his "Violin Concerto", followed by an awesome version of Uncle Igor's "PETRUSHKA" ballet music. Sparkling!
DREAM DIARY... "A pachyderm in search of Peter Pan's teeny tiny brainstem..." "Meat Puppets in Daring Gosport Bank Raid! Shalooo!"
ALEX KIRSCH, who would normally be seen as a 'lead-out man' for MADS PEDERSEN (if he were still here), had an opportunity to contest the SPRINT in his own right. But he had to settle for second place - he wasn't ever going to beat Mark Cavendish, was he?
But even the final day's laps around sunny ROME weren't as enjoyable to watch as the women's pro races at the RIDE LONDON event this weekend (although the final result was equally disappointing from a TREKky point of view!).
When I next get to watch pro-cycling on the telly, it will be for the TOUR DE FRANCE*. By then, the TREK FACTORY RACING team will have a new sponsor. No longer named for an Italian coffee machine, but for a German knock-'em-out-cheap supermarket chain - Folks, I give you LiDL TREK! I expect to see all sorts of variant on the "Every LiDL helps" puns popping up on the SOSHUL MEEJER over the next couple of months. (I must remember to check out their infamous 'MIDDLE AISLE' for some nice primary-coloured team merchandise! You never know!?!)
(*No, wait! I nearly forgot about the DAUPHINE! scratch that...)
There was a BRAND NEW episode of "MIDSOMER MURDERS" for the Bank Holiday. Hoorah! Always welcome! But unfortunately, this particular murder mystery revolved around an amateur dramatic society putting on a production of GILBERT & SULLIVAN. As I'm sure I must have mentioned before, I cannot abide Gilbert & Sullivan. I had to watch the whole thing with the sound turned off, for fear of having to endure even the briefest few bars of ghastly Victorian oompah shit.
WINCHESTER WEDNESDAY... was singled out for another ASLEF-led TRAIN STRIKE. I routinely scanned the RAIL ENQUIRIES web pages (as yer do...), to see how it might affect me. Would I find myself having to catch the 'DEATH VALLEY 69' bus yet again? {{{SHUDDER}}}... It turned out that, although some 'side roads' on the SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY network have ground to a standstill for the day, the main line to Waterloo isn't affected. From my own point of view, it's business as usual. I'm off to 'GIVE A SHIFT'!
However, I've noticed that there haven't been any piles of the METRO freeby newspaper on the the platforms lately, at least not in our neck of the woods. I know they've still been published, because I have occasionally picked up copies left on the seats by passengers coming down from DZAT LOONDIN. But it seems there's been nobody delivering them to us outlying areas. I should make it clear, I think it's a terrible shoddy little newspaper, but I really like their CROSSWORDS! Last night, I was able to find a couple of copies of the EVENING STANDARD left in the carriage. It's also a bloody awful rag, but at least I'll be able to see what their puzzle pages are like these days. "STANNIT! L'AL E'EN' BIPPIP!!!", as they used to say...
Wednesday evening's wind-down music was a concert on the radio by THE PHILHARMONIA conducted by SANTU-MATIAS ROUVALI, and rather splendid it was too! Really crisp and detailed renderings of PROKOFIEV's "Lieutenant Kije" suite and his "Violin Concerto", followed by an awesome version of Uncle Igor's "PETRUSHKA" ballet music. Sparkling!
DREAM DIARY... "A pachyderm in search of Peter Pan's teeny tiny brainstem..." "Meat Puppets in Daring Gosport Bank Raid! Shalooo!"
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