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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 17, 2010 10:20:01 GMT
I am starting to get a feeling for what would happen if you locked Nick in a garage against his will along with a load of tools and spare parts....
Hope you get sorted soon mate!
I've a friend coming back from Ireland today who has managed to patch together a journey of local buses, trains and ferry's in order to get back.
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Post by legios on Apr 17, 2010 10:33:34 GMT
You don't want to know what he could build if he was trapped in a cave, with a box of scraps......
It just goes to show that for all our technological accomplishments we sometimes just have to yield to the power of nature.
I hope that you manage to find a route back soon though Nick.
Karl
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Post by blueshift on Apr 17, 2010 11:05:25 GMT
Hopefully the ash won't stay around for THAT long. I heard it was starting to settle
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 17, 2010 12:46:41 GMT
I want samples from across the world people!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 17, 2010 13:21:01 GMT
None to be found in Fife!
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 17, 2010 17:29:50 GMT
Poor Nick... and you're teetotal, aren't you? Damn.
Story ideas popping into my head about a forgotten era of Cybertronian history when volcanic dust pervaded the atmosphere (they must have volcanoes, or they wouldn't name an operation after them) and flight was impossible... On a Saturn-sized world, this meant settlements were completely isolated from one another physically, although they could talk to one another via the Internet. A robot could travel from one city to another only by leaving his body in one city and travelling as pure data into a waiting body in the destination city. Then, one by one, city-states start to go dead and drop off the communications grid, and no-one knows why. Is something sweeping across the planet physically, attacking cities, or is it moving through the planetary Internet? Should the remaining cities shut down their network links to protect themselves, or remain on-line in the hopes of learning something?
Da-dum! That's as far as I've got.
Hmmm. Nick, if you have time on your hands, you could always put pen to paper and start writing something in your own inimitable style to regale us with at Swincon. (Assuming Swincon itself isn't scuppered by the volcano.)
Martin
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 17, 2010 19:57:29 GMT
It just goes to show that for all our technological accomplishments we sometimes just have to yield to the power of nature. Quite the opposite, good sir! Our technological accomplishments shall overcome the power of nature! In this case, a combination of the internet, bullet trains and... car ferries. Car ferries are fairly high tech. Anyway, as of tomorrow morning we shall be on the move! We're starting off with an insanely priced taxi fare into Kolding so we can get to Mass (the first bus on a Sunday isn't till 11 and Mass is at 10) and book our seats on a long hauler to Cologne in Germany. I've got us a room in a hostel and from there will book us on the bullet train to Brussels. From there it's a short (compared to the distance we'll have covered by then) hop to Calais, which we should reach by dinner time on Monday. After that it's just waiting in line for the P&O "Spirit of Dunkirk" evacuation ferry followed by a predictably epic coach journey back to Glasgow. This is assuming there are any tickets left when we get to the station. All the sleepers are fully booked for the week and I can't make a booking from here because the free PC doesn't have a printer and the PC with a printer requires you to swipe a credit card. Unfortunately I am the only member of my family with a credit card and said device is underneath my keyboard about 1400 miles away. Channelling would be appreciated for the morning, chaps! On a lighter note, there are some heart-warming stories swilling around about Facebook campaigns organised between stranded commuters, volunteers and hotels like ours. We got offered a lift from a man leaving Kolding tomorrow at 6 a.m. to pick up his wife in Barcelona- he could drop us off in Paris. Oddly my parents were not keen on sharing a car with a random bloke the fella on the front desk met on the internet, but it's a hell of a gesture. Takes car-pooling to a whole new level. Well, g'night! Big day and early start tomorrow! -Nick |
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Post by Cullen on Apr 18, 2010 9:54:39 GMT
Hope you get moving soon Nick. I hate waiting around too. Rich Ahern is in a similar situation too. Following on from Martins idea let's build new bodies for both of them to transmit their consciousnesses to. I've got some empty loo rolls and some sticky back plastic to start us off.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 18, 2010 16:03:33 GMT
Hope you get moving soon Nick. I hate waiting around too. Rich Ahern is in a similar situation too. Following on from Martins idea let's build new bodies for both of them to transmit their consciousnesses to. I've got some empty loo rolls and some sticky back plastic to start us off. That shouldn't really be necessary, because statistically there should be as many people trying to get from the UK to Denmark (or wherever Rich is) as there are trying to get from there to the UK. All you need to do is pair them up and do a body-swap. Or, if you like your body the way it is, do a life-swap. Nick and Rich stay where they are but step into the shoes of someone trapped in Britain, and live their life for them, while their counterparts over here become the new Nick and Rich. Problem solved! 'Course, the Danes who become the new Nick and Rich must adjust to the concept of being Transformers fans (we'll have to break them in gently), while the new Nick must have it broken to him (or her) that he (or she) is going to university in Saudi Arabia. Don't worry, we'll work out the details... Martin |
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 18, 2010 22:34:10 GMT
It's not gonna be a problem, folks, because I'll be home in no time!
Wilkommen au Köln! We've been on the go since eight this morning and arrived about an hour ago (11.20 local time) and after some frantic cashpoint-fu (my dad's card worked in one machine we found, but only my card could open the bank door) we've been able to pay for a clean, warm room at a local hostel. We're already booked onto trains to Calais tomorrow (including 35 minutes in first class on the TGV to Lille, because there were no second class tickets left) and from there we just have to find a ferry with standing room and we're back in Britain.
On the downside, there are only two listings on Hostelworld for Calais and they both seem pretty full- one asked us to call back in the morning so I'll try that. If we can't get a ferry and we can't get a hostel then we're boned and I suspect my mother will never forgive me.
More channelling would be appreciated, folks.
-Wandering Nick
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 19, 2010 5:55:22 GMT
Both the hostels I checked last night are now showing as full until the 21st. I think we're sleeping in the ferry terminal tonight.
-Nick
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Post by Gav on Apr 19, 2010 7:01:02 GMT
Best o' luck Nick! I'll be channelling my head off!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 19, 2010 7:04:14 GMT
Can't wait for next instalment. Sell the movie rights, Nick.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Apr 19, 2010 7:17:54 GMT
Good luck Nick!
Who knows, you might even be able to skip the hostel and get straight to a ferry!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2010 7:18:43 GMT
according to yahoo news the skies should be clear by 7pm tonight...of course they also said that on Friday last week
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Post by primenova on Apr 19, 2010 7:25:34 GMT
Aren't the planes to be ot for the next month? WOnder how this'll effect Bristol comic expo. Hope it clears up for AA
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Post by blueshift on Apr 19, 2010 8:16:07 GMT
Aren't the planes to be ot for the next month? WOnder how this'll effect Bristol comic expo. Hope it clears up for AA I really doubt they'll be out for more than a few more days. That reminds me though, I need to sort out my Bristol stuff! |
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Post by grahamthomson on Apr 19, 2010 9:25:46 GMT
My word!
Channeling for both Nick (and family) and Rich to make a safe journey home.
Or to be "re-patriated" as they keep saying on Radio 4.
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Post by legios on Apr 19, 2010 12:19:48 GMT
My fingers remain crossed for both of you.
Karl
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Post by Nigel on Apr 19, 2010 14:48:52 GMT
Poor Nick doesn't have much luck with aeroplanes, does he?
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 19, 2010 18:08:05 GMT
I am sending up the Hub flares! Everyone, form on me!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Apr 19, 2010 19:53:13 GMT
I am sending up the Hub flares! Everyone, form on me! -Ralph As long as I don't have to form the right leg again, I'm just not coordinated enough to be the bit we stand on. I think I need to be an arm or something. Karl |
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 19, 2010 22:18:48 GMT
Typing away here at my uncle's place in Datchet just north of London. He picked us up from the ferry terminal at Dover after we walked out of the Calais train station, onto a bus to the port and straight into the queue for Seafrance and P&O ferries' next departure. Uncle Brian is kindly running us up to Milton Keynes tomorrow morning, and after a positively brisk seven hour coach ride we will be back in Glasgow! W00t!
-Repatriated Nick
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 19, 2010 23:07:41 GMT
Hooray - welcome back!
I hope the volcano calms down before you have to journey to and from SA later in the year..
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2010 23:52:53 GMT
They've got to come to Swindon next Friday !
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Apr 20, 2010 5:18:17 GMT
Well done, Nick! I look forward to the holiday snaps in due course. They've got to come to Swindon next Friday ! Things aren't looking good for that at the moment. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 20, 2010 6:53:43 GMT
No, sadly not.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 20, 2010 6:59:28 GMT
Oh bobbins.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Apr 20, 2010 7:01:34 GMT
Ruh-roh, are you all planning on planes?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 20, 2010 7:57:45 GMT
Well to get the Scots boys down here.
I've pointed this out elsewhere but ....
how long does this have to continue to affect next week's comic delivery ? And thus Free Comic Book Day ?
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