Friends: with deep regret, the time has come for me to close my Twitter account. I'm loath to abandon the community here but I've reached the point where I cannot in conscience stay. Find me on🟦or LinkedIn! (Still on IG for now but TBH, I'm having doubts about that, too...🫤)

Your 'help' system is deliberately designed to prevent me from getting any help. Your chatbot insists you can't do anything before 1pm Tuesday. Why should I wait that long when I've made reasonable checks and been unable to find it? Why can't I speak to a human being? (END)

been dumped at a random back door that I can't recognise from the photograph. (The email claim's it's MY back door--it isn't--my house doesn't have a back door.) I've checked nearby doorsteps but it's nowhere to be seen. (2)

...to find that the Office closed at 4pm "due to staff shortage". I'll now have to waste another 20 minutes of my time going back there tomorrow morning, and probably be late for work. I'll try to avoid using @RoyalMail or @PostOffice in future if I can possibly help it. (END)

Then on Wednesday morning--at last! I get a notification that the parcel has been delivered to the @PostOffice. After work I dash across town as fast as I can to reach said Post Office; I get there five minutes before closing time... (4/5)

I wait in all day on Monday. No sign of my parcel, no update on the tracking app. So I decide to change tack and request redelivery to my nearest Post Office. My request is acknowledged in the app, but Tuesday goes by with no further update. (3/5)

This request is completely ignored and the postman tries to deliver the parcel on Thursday whilst I'm out. On Friday morning I get a notification that it is "due to be delivered today". And then...nothing. Radio silence. (2/5)

Hopeless service from @RoyalMail and @PostOffice this week. Bought an item online; sender dispatches on Tues last week, 48hr tracked. On Wednesday, I get the notification that the parcel will be delivered on Thursday. I work Thurs/Fri so I request redelivery on Monday. (1/5)

I was disgusted to see photos of the anti-immigration protestors climbing on and trampling all over this part of the Cenotaph yesterday. Using Southampton’s main war memorial and symbol of remembrance as a platform to call for mass deportations is, in my opinion, utterly obscene.

If anybody is still giving Muskrat the benefit of the doubt: don't. He's a fascist. I don't use that word lightly, but he's not even trying to hide it any more. Call him out for what he is.

Happy Burns Night to all who celebrate!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Here's a flashback to last year's Scottish Steam Spectacular at the @SpaVRofficial; ex-Caledonian Railway locomotives 419 and 828 buffer up at Eridge.

Squint harder for your Sustainable Aviation Fuels!

NEWS: C20 Society is leading efforts to save Bath Fire Station from proposed demolition. The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and the station went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the ‘Baedeker Blitz’

Another notable anniversary in 2025 is the 70th of @festrail's reopening by preservationists. This week #PreGroupingWednesday looks at the FfR's 1886-built Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0T Livingston Thompson, now enjoying an honourable retirement in the @RailwayMuseum, York.

@railnigel Can be quite enlightening. I was on the way to a press event and a new rail MD with his assistant sat across the aisle, obviously going to same launch. He didn't notice me and talked with his PA about some magazines being run by "a load of trainspotters"🤣 @ClarksonsFarm1

It's great that the rail industry hooked up our justification for capital expenditure solely to the "decarbonisation" wagon such that electric cars are - obviously - being used by stooges like Armitt as a justification to now drop rail investment.

New streets (left) & old streets (right) in bountiful Bath. Create gorgeous places that people not architects like, put people not cars first, mix up homes & shops & things to do and sit back & watch them prosper. We really know how to do this. New homes …

As well as being #Rail200 year, 2025 also marks the sesquicentenary of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Rly. So, this week's #PreGroupingWednesday picture shows Eskdale Green station in its original 3' gauge form, with Manning, Wardle 0-6-0T Devon hauling the train.

Writing #OnThisDay 1835 Benjamin Disraeli reflected on his defeat at Wycombe at the recent general election. He blamed a failure to register his supporters as voters & being outspent by his opponents: ‘Had I let money fly, I shd have come in.’

Whilst California burns, our politicians do deals to ship more Chinese-made EVs to Britain, at goodness knows what carbon cost. Proof of just how broken our political and economic systems are—not just in the UK, but worldwide.