Expected Expedition Expunged!
Saturday 13th June was planned as a big "lads day out". Nos 1 and 3 sons were due to meet their beloved papa 'up Lunnun Town' and enjoy some ferroequinological exploration.
There would be a ride on the genuinely new tunnel bits of the Elizabeth Line line (above); a trip to Barking Riverside ...
... a quick look at the new bits of Bank station ...
... and the Northern Line to Battersea Power Station station.
The trip would be enhanced by a lavish lunch in a "greasy spoon" caff at somewhere like Ilford!
This "star" trek would doubtless have furnished material for several stunningly stimulating (yawn?) blog posts.
Alas the dark deeds of dusky Melena have promoted a postponement!
Blame her (!) for any inadequacies in this week's pertinent and patronising prognostications.
Irrelevant Internet Idiocy
fbb is always fascinated by the garbage that appears on-line purporting to be genuine "information".
Consider this ...
... a picture with everything wrong that could be wrong. In a post about 'unusual loads' the above does not appear anywhere in the video!
Or this ...
... which is a fine example of a very non natural fabricated non wonder of the world with no access for people or vehicles and no source of liquid to water the falls.
And in China?
It is hard to understand why even a Chinese dictator should want to build his road bridge access through a tower block.
It is somewhat less likely that the State authorities would wish to add a floating monorail to the infrastructure.
But it is all on-line so it must be right!
It is not entirely clear how traffic in the opposite direction crosses the unspecified abyss. Perhaps the Dictatorship deems that traffic runs in opposite directions on successive days.
Yes that makes sense!
Brennan Monorail Badly Misleading
It actually looked like this.
Passengers were loaded in the open 'truck' at the rear. The front 'cab' accommodated a driver and two gurt big gyroscopes which, spookily, kept the thing upright. 
Needless to say, in the fake coloured picture above, there is no room for the even more gurt big gyroscopes needed to prevent it from crashing into the valley below with 100% fatalities!
A practical consideration for series production might have been some seats ...
... and, possibly, side walls to stop customers falling off.
A young fbb had a gyroscope.
Despite his dad's determined efforts, the toy spinned wildly, erratically and briefly before whirling dejectedly on to its side. It never scoped any gyros.
Presumably Brennan did not have that problem!
Here We Go Again ...
BARTON HILL TO BE CHOSEN
BY BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL FOR
NEW UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
Bristol City Council have just published a consultative report that the Barton Hill area will be the first part of the city to have the new high speed underground railway.
There will be a northern line running from Lawrence Hill station to Marsh Lane Bridge and a circular line from Temple Meads Station to the Netham.
.... ot maybe light rail ...
... but more likely purple trams!
In the end, Bristol got a rather pathetic guided busway ...
... which can't guide the buses round the corners!
So, are trams back on the agenda?
Possibly?
But probably not?
The big unanswered question is, as ever, who's got the money?
Rachel's chums at H M Treasury (exemplar pictured above) never seem to have much to spare!
Talking Of Money ...
The Guardian thinks PM-to-be (possibly) Andy will be ready to spend lots!
He has certainly had some practice in Manchester at spending other people's money (that's yours and mine kindly given via our generous tax payments) to make very few changes to Public Transport.
Perhaps he will paint his Electricity and Gas vans yellow?
Same Problem In Herts
This is not the first time we have heard of these plans.
Vast?
One route with some diversiinary options!
Hertfordshire County council has unveiled its vision for a trackless tram network that would through the county and into Essex and drastically cut the travel time to less than an hour. A trackless tram is essentially an electric bus that has the appearance of a tram. It has been dubbed the Hertfordshire Essex Rapid Transit (HERT) and officials say it’s the ‘transport system of the future’. 
And the route(s) ...
Like London’s tube network, councillors want to create a system where services are frequent enough that passengers can ‘just turn up’ and don’t have to worry about a schedule. The ambition would be for services to run along the main spine of the HERT every 10 minutes.
Traditionally the 724 ran every 30 minutes, so to increase it to every 10 is, indeed, something of an "aspiration".
It is not clear how the system would dramatically improve the running time, "drastically reducing it to ine hour". There would be huge infrastructure costs.
Will it ever happen?
Answers in a postcard, please, to the usual address.
Coming tomorrow ...
Who remembers one of those?
More Variety tomorrow.
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The squeamish or hospital phobic may now read this diary with caution! Especially if they don't see eye to eye with blood.
EIGHT DAYS INSIDE
(Monday 1st/Tuesday 2nd June)
With Melena almost defeated, the task was now to get fbb's discombobulated bodily functions to make some addition blood cells, several billion were needed.
The body seemed to be making a good effort but, to provide a medical "jump start", a pouch if blood was duly transfused on Monday ...
... and "iron" on Tuesday.
The fluids looked much the same!
Then it was more "wait and see".
Wikipedia suggests that there are "between 20 and 30 trilliion red blood cells" in the human body at any one time!
It seems that FBB is one of those people who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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