In article ,
Willy Eckerslyke writes:
Sam Nelson wrote:

Bus to work and back would be about GBP2.50 each way (depends on the driver
and which buses turn up). They've just allowed staff to have the student-
discount card, which gets half-fare on some buses.

Don't suppose you have an easy link to anything about that, do you? It
could be worth suggesting hereabouts.

It's all a bit haphazard at the moment, because apparently it's only just
happened. You go to

https://www.firstgroup.com/students/...ast/idcard.php

and answer `Staff' to the full/part-time student question. You also have
to lie about which year of study you're in. That's as much detail as I
have, right now.
--
SAm.

Sam Nelson wrote:
In article ,
Willy Eckerslyke writes:
Sam Nelson wrote:

Bus to work and back would be about GBP2.50 each way (depends on the driver
and which buses turn up). They've just allowed staff to have the student-
discount card, which gets half-fare on some buses.
Don't suppose you have an easy link to anything about that, do you? It
could be worth suggesting hereabouts.

It's all a bit haphazard at the moment, because apparently it's only just
happened. You go to

https://www.firstgroup.com/students/...ast/idcard.php

and answer `Staff' to the full/part-time student question. You also have
to lie about which year of study you're in. That's as much detail as I
have, right now.

Ta. By the time I get around to doing anything about it, they may have
got it a little more organised.

Willy Eckerslyke wrote:
Sam Nelson wrote:
In article ,
Willy Eckerslyke writes:
Sam Nelson wrote:

Bus to work and back would be about GBP2.50 each way (depends on the
driver
and which buses turn up). They've just allowed staff to have the
student-
discount card, which gets half-fare on some buses.

On the other hand...

I just checked and Arriva's student discounts only apply to season
tickets, so would be less appealing. Never mind.

Huge wrote:

I went to Birmingham yesterday on the train. It was fine, if a bit full. But
boy, isn't New Street a ********?

Indeed, but outside near the Royal Mail depot is an extremely fine
Indian Restaurant with a decent wine list.

OTOH, when a colleague of mine was crossing from the station to the
restaurant someone bashed him over the head with a brick and stole his
laptop.

In article , lid
says...

I went to Birmingham yesterday on the train. It was fine, if a bit full.

That's about the nicest thing I've ever read about Birmingham. IMO it's a
complete ******** and a bit full.

But boy, isn't New Street a ********?


It's in Birmingham, what do you expect?

Could be worse though. You might have had to go to Grimsby.

--
eric
Live fast, die only if strictly necessary.

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In article , lid
says...

I went to Birmingham yesterday on the train. It was fine, if a bit full.

That's about the nicest thing I've ever read about Birmingham. IMO it's a
complete ******** and a bit full.

But boy, isn't New Street a ********?


It's in Birmingham, what do you expect?

Could be worse though. You might have had to go to Grimsby.

When in Birmingham visit the Anchor at Digbeth, and find an imposing
selection of cask-conditioned ales and beers.

Puts B'ham in a whole new category - i.e.: Must Go There.

--
Rusty
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In article , lid
says...
On 2008-09-26, Bing Trotsky wrote:
In article , lid
says...

Could be worse though. You might have had to go to Grimsby.

I last went to Grimsby about 30 years ago. I don't recall it being particularly
horrid.


It's the combination of the biting see breeze direct from Scandanavia,
the smell of rotting fish (though not from Scandanavia), and the added
bonus of the entire contents of just about every sewer in the Midlands or
Yorkshire emptying into the Humber to wash ashore at Cleethorpes.

--
eric
Live fast, die only if strictly necessary.

In article , lid
(Huge) wrote:

It's in Birmingham, what do you expect?

Dunno. never been there before, so I didn't expect anything.

Some of Birmingham is very nice. My wife is from Bournville and my brother
was a student there, living in a number of West and South West Birmingham
locations, all pleasant enough.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Huge writes:

I went to Birmingham yesterday on the train. It was fine, if a bit
full. But boy, isn't New Street a ********?

It's better than it used to be but I guess it'll be way better when
they've spent 550 million on it.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/b...7319-21847775/

Chris
--
Chris Eilbeck

In article ,
says...
Huge writes:

I went to Birmingham yesterday on the train. It was fine, if a bit
full. But boy, isn't New Street a ********?

It's better than it used to be but I guess it'll be way better when
they've spent 550 million on it.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/b...7319-21847775/

50 million for a thermonuclear device of some sort, and half a billion
for the rebuild?
--
SAm.