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The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in July 2023

01/07 Princess Anne accompanied by Sir Tim, opened the 30th Scottish Traditional Boat Festival at Portsoy Harbour. ⛴️

03/07 As Chancellor of Harper Adams University, visited the University’s Future Farm, Edgmond and met the 2023 Marshal Papworth Foundation Scholars. 👩‍🎓

As Patron, Scottish Fisheries Museum’s Reaper Appeal visited the Scottish Fisheries Museum in St. Ayles, Anstruther. 🎣

04/07 Visited Strathcarron Hospice, Denny. 👩‍⚕️

As Colonel-in-Chief of the Intelligence Corps, attended a 5 Military Intelligence Battalion Training Night at the Army Reserve Centre, Edinburgh. 💂

05/07 As part of Holyrood week in Edinburgh, Princess Anne carried out the following engagements;

Opened the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, at NHS Lothian as part of #NHS75 celebrations. 🧸

Opened King’s Buildings Nucleus Building at the University of Edinburgh. 👩‍🎓

Launched WETWHEELS EDINBURGH Accessible Boat at Port Edgar Marina. 🦽🛥️

Attended a Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria for Eric Liddell 100 programme. 🍽️

06/07 As President of the UK Fashion and Textile Association, attended the Textile Institute World Conference at the University of Huddersfield. 🪡

Opened Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Maternity Theatre at Bradford Royal Infirmary.🤰

As Colonel of The Blues and Royals, with Sir Tim, took the salute at the Household Division Beating Retreat on Horse Guards Parade. 🫡

07/07 Attended a Charity Polo Day at Cirencester Park Polo Club for the Spinal Injuries Association 🐎

11/07 Visited Flintshire Adult Day Care Centre, Hwb Cyfle in Queensferry, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

HRH, as the new Patron of BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation) visited their Headquarters at Marford Mill, Wrexham, Wales. 🦡

12/07 Visited St Helena’s Nursing Campus at the University of Derby in Chesterfield. 👩‍⚕️

Opened Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s new Urgent and Emergency Care Department. 🏥

Attended a Reception at Rolls-Royce Learning and Development Centre for the Motor Neurone Association. 🚘

13/07 Sir Tim represented the Princess Royal at a service of thanksgiving for the life of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce at Westminster Abbey. ⚓️

Princess Anne opened the King’s Arch at Government House, visited the Tortoise Takeover Trail at Gorey Castle and subsequently opened the Tortoise Tunnel at Jersey Zoo. 🇯🇪🐢

Princess Anne with Sir Tim, later attended the Royal Academy of Engineering Annual Awards Dinner at the Londoner Hotel in Leicester Square, London. 🏆

14/07 Opened the new Southampton Citizens Advice Bureau and visited DP World Shipping Container Terminal. ⛴️

15/07 As Colonel-in-Chief of the Intelligence Corps, attended their Annual Corps Day at Chicksands. 🪖

18/07 Princess Anne and Sir Tim carried out the following engagements in Kent;

Opened a new affordable housing development at Bartlett Close, Staple, Canterbury, followed by a Reception at Staple Village Hall. 🏡

Visited St James’s Cemetery in Dover in her role as Patron of the Remembrance Trust 🫡

Visited Folkestone National Coastguard Institution Station in Folkestone to mark its 25th Anniversary, followed by a Reception at Folkestone Yacht and Motorboat Club. 🚨

19/07 In South Wales, visited Barry Citizens Advice Bureaux in her role of Patron of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux and later visited HM Prison Cardiff in her role of Patron of the Butler Trust. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

20/07 Joined the ship’s company of HMS Albion and visited Clyde Marina near Glasgow, Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

21/07 Princess Anne and Sir Tim attended a Dinner at the Royal Ocean Racing Club Clubhouse, to celebrate the 50th Edition of the Fastnet Race in Cowes, Isle of Wight. 🛥️

27/07 Attended the Tall Ships Races Captains’ Dinner at Lerwick Town Hall, Lerwick, Shetland Islands. 👨‍✈️🍽️

28/07 Visited ships in Lerwick Harbour taking part in the Tall Ships Races. 🚢🏁

29/07 With Sir Tim, attended the King George Day at Ascot Racecourse. 🏆🐎

30/07 Princess Anne and Sir Tim visited Cowes, Isle of Wight for Cowes Week and carried out the following engagements;

Viewed Cowes Week Racing and met Squadron Staff at the Royal Yacht Squadron. 🛥️

Visited HMS Tyne and The Royal Navy Stand. ⛴️

Attended a Church Service at Holy Trinity Church. ⛪️

Attended a Reception for Members, Racing Crews, Flag Officers and Sailing Associates at the Royal Yacht Squadron. 🥂

Total official engagements for Anne in July: 42

2023 total so far: 304

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in July: 14

2023 total so far: 70

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Five Reasons to Spend a Weekend in Newcastle

Newcastle is located at the Tyne riverbank. A prosperous and developed city, it is one of the most visited holiday destinations in the United Kingdom. Not only does it provide state of the art tourist amenities, but also high-end entertainment facilities for young and old alike. A Weekend in Newcastle is ideal for a short holiday for the following reasons:

Comfort Accommodation: To spend a great Weekend in Newcastle, you have to have good accommodation. The choices vary here in price, facilities, and proximity to the city's entertainment districts. The weekends are not just for the family, but also for stag and hen parties, youth groups and backpackers, and lodging and hotel food and entertainment options do not disappoint.

Great Food: You can expect both quiet and sophisticated, and light-hearted and casual eating places wherever you go in Newcastle.

It has a large harbor area with a park behind the river shore for quiet relaxation. The wharves host a plethora of bars, restaurants, and cafes and you will find the freshest seafood dishes here. Walking further into the city from Newcastle harbor, you will come across numerous other restaurants, both British and multicultural. Derby and Beaumont Streets are the doctors in newcastle dining hotspots of Newcastle and there are delicious cuisines and entertainment options found here.

Legendary Nightlife: Newcastle is one of the top 10 nightspots in the world. A buzzing place by night, you can expect excitement, thrills and delirious fun on your Weekend in Newcastle. For the same reason, Newcastle is also a popular stag and hen weekend destination.

The Quayside and the Big Market is traditionally the place to look for drinking establishments. However, new areas have emerged too, namely the Gay Village in west Newcastle that is also a fantastic venue for hen parties. Other pubs, bars and nightclubs are concentrated in Newcastle's shopping districts, and most tourist areas in the city.

Surfing Culture: Expect to indulge in some great water sports on your Weekend in Newcastle. Thanks to rolling waves and good wind conditions, the Newcastle Beach makes for great coastal breaks. It is also the home of the annual competition.

The Nobby's Beach is a sheltered part of the main beach, and on a windy day, is great for surfing. You will enjoy your walk to the lighthouse on the beach and then to Nobby's Island. The Bar and Mereweather Beaches on far south are great for surfing and swimming.

Cultural Tourism: No Weekend in Newcastle is complete without a tour of the many historical sites in the city. The New Castle railway Station, the old Customs House and the Fort Scratchley are the most famous of Newcastle's historical architecture.

The Newcastles Famous Tram, a replica of the old trams, gives a 45-minute tour of the city and runs out to the Hunter Valley. From Hunter Valley and Lake Macquarie, you can go up to the Mt. Sugarloaf for a view of the city.

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The new Æthelflaed statue outside Tamworth Railway Station, erected to commemorate 1,100 years since her death in Tamworth. Her spear points visitors towards the town centre and Tamworth Castle.

Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 12 June 918) ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. She was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and his wife Ealhswith.

Æthelflæd was born around 870 at the height of the Viking invasions of England. By 878, most of England was under Danish Viking rule – East Anglia and Northumbria having been conquered, and Mercia partitioned between the English and the Vikings – but in that year Alfred won a crucial victory at the Battle of Edington. Soon afterwards the English-controlled western half of Mercia came under the rule of Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, who accepted Alfred's overlordship. Alfred adopted the title King of the Anglo-Saxons (previously he was titled King of the West Saxons like his predecessors) claiming to rule all Anglo-Saxon people not living in areas under Viking control. In the mid-880s, Alfred sealed the strategic alliance between the surviving English kingdoms by marrying Æthelflæd to Æthelred.

Æthelred played a major role in fighting off renewed Viking attacks in the 890s, together with Æthelflæd's brother, the future King Edward the Elder. Æthelred and Æthelflæd fortified Worcester, gave generous donations to Mercian churches and built a new minster in Gloucester. Æthelred's health probably declined early in the next decade, after which it is likely that Æthelflæd was mainly responsible for the government of Mercia. Edward had succeeded as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 899, and in 909 he sent a West Saxon and Mercian force to raid the northern Danelaw. They returned with the remains of the royal Northumbrian saint Oswald, which were translated to the new Gloucester minster. Æthelred died in 911 and Æthelflæd then ruled Mercia as Lady of the Mercians. The accession of a female ruler in Mercia is described by the historian Ian Walker as "one of the most unique events in early medieval history".

Alfred had built a network of fortified burhs and in the 910s Edward and Æthelflæd embarked on a programme of extending them. Among the towns where she built defences were Wednesbury, Bridgnorth, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick, Chirbury and Runcorn. In 917 she sent an army to capture Derby, the first of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw to fall to the English, a victory described by Tim Clarkson as "her greatest triumph". In 918 Leicester surrendered without a fight. Shortly afterwards the Viking leaders of York offered her their loyalty, but she died on 12 June 918 before she could take advantage of the offer, and a few months later Edward completed the conquest of Mercia. Æthelflæd was succeeded by her daughter Ælfwynn, but in December Edward took personal control of Mercia and carried Ælfwynn off to Wessex.

Historians disagree whether Mercia was an independent kingdom under Æthelred and Æthelflæd but they agree that Æthelflæd was a great ruler who played an important part in the conquest of the Danelaw. She was praised by Anglo-Norman chroniclers such as William of Malmesbury, who described her as "a powerful accession to [Edward's] party, the delight of his subjects, the dread of his enemies, a woman of enlarged soul". According to Pauline Stafford, "like ... Elizabeth I she became a wonder to later ages". In Nick Higham's view, medieval and modern writers have been so captivated by her that Edward's reputation has suffered unfairly in comparison.

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Hiking with Tracy 2021:  Weekend 3, the Lost Weekend

As I went back to re-read my blog I noticed I had cut off my WHOLE weekend of 4/17!!  This is my 20 mile walk from the Emeryville Marina to the Richmond Marina and back via the Bay Trail along the water & Hwy 80.  So let me try to reenact my journey!

The theme of this hike was “Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart, you just gotta poke around” - Once again I tip my hat to the great Jerry Garcia.  Not sure if you all figured it out, but I love Jerry.  I came to the Bay Area to follow the Grateful Dead’s music and I never left.  

This particular hike was absolutely beautiful.  I wish it wasn’t so I can mix this blog up, but sorry folks, you live in a beautiful area.  Even along a dirty highway, there are things of beauty all around you.  Take for example this hike, wildflowers everywhere.  Even popping out of the sidewalk.  I'm reminded of Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park...”Life refuses to be contained...it just finds a way”.  And sure enough, Sunflowers out of the sidewalk!

Since I was next to a highway, I went with headphones this time around.  One of my positives during this pandemic is my rekindled love for music radio stations.  I love listening to a radio station and I definitely have my favorite DJ’s. My personal favorites this past year were:  WWOZ - a local New Orleans station; KCSM - a Bay Area jazz station and KXT - out of Dallas, TX.  These stations literally kept me sane during the lockdowns.  I highly recommend them, especially if you’re cooking, doing chores or working in the garden. 

This particular morning I went with WWOZ.  And what a good decision that was.  Ron Phillips was spinning his favorite Saturday morning tunes and I was going down the road feeling BAD (as in good)!  Irma Thomas, Anders Osborne, The Subdudes and a little known singer/songwriter out of New Orleans, Chris Smithers.  If you get overwhelmed and about to burst...stream Chris Smithers “Let it Go”.  So funny.   Anders Osborne is a name my friends have been trying to get me into for a long time.  And I’m a bozo, definitely missed the boat on this one!  From his new album, try this song:  Welcome to Earth.  

Ok, so I digress!  Back to the walk.  In one of my last posts, I mentioned the people I meet.  Well this am was a doozy!  As I was grooving to the sweet sounds of the Crescent City I was approached by a group of ladies.  They had a question for me:  What’s more important in a relationship:  Love or Economics?  My first response was “Wow, you ladies don’t mess around for a Saturday morning!  Going deep on me”.  But, because I’m me, I had an answer. Now usually I would have said Love, Love, Love.  Hands down right?  But they caught me at a weird time.  I have been obsessively thinking of a comment I overheard from another group of ladies while doing my Diablo hike.  One of them had commented “I have no desire to marry just for love.  Forget that, I need to be economically stable”.  My reaction was pity for this poor girl.  I literally felt sorry for her.  The more I thought about it (obsessively for two weeks) I came to realize, she didn’t necessarily say she wasn’t going to work, she just wanted someone with their shit together and would contribute to their family being comfortable.  What’s wrong with that?  Is being comfortable taboo now?  So when my Bay Trail friends asked me, that’s how I answered.  Love was great but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to be comfortable, isn’t that love after all?  I obviously made one of the women very happy.  She loved it.  The other two nodded and smiled, they were on Love’s side.  So we said our goodbyes and I felt like I had gotten a weight off my shoulders.  As I was walking away though...I asked myself...But didn’t YOU marry for love?  And sure enough, I did.  Bob & I didn’t have a pot to piss in.  And while we’re not the Rockefeller's, we’re comfortable enough for us.  I love him dearly and love has to be the basis that you build your financial future upon.  If you don’t have that, it get’s ugly when $$ is involved.  The best part of this moment was that song “Welcome to Earth” was playing as I was coming to this realization and the last line is literally “Love is always the answer”.  The Universe works in mysterious ways!  But, where were the ladies...I wanted to change my answer??!!  No where to be found.  Man, I blew it.  I would now obsessively think about this for the next 20 miles. Told you I was a bozo. 

By this time I had reached The Albany bulb.  A Bay Area gem to the north of Golden Gate Fields.  There’s a great beach and then it jets out into a peninsula which is covered with art installations all over.  I’ll talk more about that later, since I came back on Sunday to finish my 25 miles. This morning though I watched a group of swimmers about to enter the freezing bay waters, no wet suit mind you!  CRAZY and No Thank You!  Brrr.   Next Stop, Point Isabel, dog heaven.  A large open spaced off-leach dog park.  I go there all the time.  If you have a dog, you should take them.  They will love you even more than they already do. 

Now past Point Isabel is where the trail gets interesting.  You start to wander away from the highway and are now among the prettiest beaches and marshes. It’s an interesting view of the Bay Bridge and you can no longer see the Golden Gate Bridge as you veer north of it.  You now start to come upon single family homes along the trail.  You’re instantly reminded of Cape Cod.  A ocean view from Richmond, CA.  The best part is once you see this neighborhood you know you’re close to the marina.  And sure enough, I turned the bend and there in front of me was the Ford Assembly plant, my 1/2 way point.  But, it’s a very cruel joke.  You see the plant across the opening of the marina, it’s literally right there!!  Then the realization hits you in order to get to it you need to go around the WHOLE marina.  And as you continue to walk and go around another bend, the sidewalk gets longer and longer and longer.  The Richmond Marina is HUGE. Lovely though.  Large green spaces with people doing yoga;  a ladies bootcamp class along the water; boats coming and going from the marina and two pretty cute restaurants also along the water.  

I finally made it to the Ford Assembly Plant and now Richmond Ferry Terminal.  The assembly plant hosts seasonal events, we’ve been to the women’s roller derby ones.  Nothing like watching tough chicks bully each other on roller skates.  Then there are a few businesses strewn throughout the building.  Dolls Kill, which I believe is a clothing business for those on the freakier side of the spectrum.  And Mountain Hardware!  Quality clothing for the outdoorsy types.  I should have gone in and gotten a windbreaker.  The wind was pretty brutal.  

The best part was of course the Rosie The Riveter museum.  A museum dedicated to the women that left the kids at home and joined the workforce to help build ships during WWII.  This whole area was built for the war effort.  Richmond grew from 25,000 to over 100,000 within three years!!!  Can you imagine?  How does any town build the infrastructure needed to maintain that population?  Grocery stores?  Clothing? Schools?  Highly recommended.  It’s a suggested donation, so don’t be cheap, donate.  You won’t be disappointed.  I once brought Charlotte and a couple of her Girl Scout troop there to meet a real life “Rosie”.  She told the girls her story and it was of course about LOVE!  The trials and tribulations of her and her partner as he was fighting in the war and she was here making the ships that would keep him safe.  Man, where were those 3 ladies!!  

The way back was pretty much the same. I made it!  Now onto Sunday, 4/18. The Albany Bulb!  A Bay Area gem.  Bob & I have been coming here for years.  Way back when it was a landfill full of broken concrete slabs and rebar.  Some artist types took it upon themselves to start living there.  They kept the concrete slabs and rebar and started to make installations out of them.  Giant sized figures;  rows of wooden paintings; mazes and one guy even built a concrete castle along the water facing the Golden Gate Bridge.  Best real estate in the Bay.  They exemplified the phrase “one mans trash is another man’s treasure”.  Of course the stuffed shirts got wind and kicked them out.  But gave the stuffed shirts an idea...Hey, why not make a park out of this dirty unused lot?  Duh.  So before you harass your kid for taking art classes, remember it’s usually the artists who push the rest of society in the right direction.  

It’s also a great place to bird watch and now the wildflowers are a blooming, so it’s quite serene.  If you’re looking for some inspiration, this is the place for you.  

So my posts/weeks are a bit out of order.  Oh well!  It’s my blog and I’ll create chaos if I want to!  

I’ll end on this note:  Love is ALWAYS the answer. 

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The final four refs! If I end up getting any more characters in this next gen belonging to any of the main pairs, I'll edit them into existing sheets, and background ones will remain background (while acknowledging who I've adopted them from). For all the bios, look here: www.deviantart.com/dadjoke-nes… (some of the older ones will have their text edited soon, just because I have new friendships and relationships) --- FREE WILL - The oldest daughter of Iron Will by 1 week, she, along with her sister, was conceived at a Wonderbolts party. Her other parent is none other than the illustrious Rainbow Dash, who gave up her oldest daughter to Iron Will, as she was not ready for kids (and was early in dating Rarity when she gave birth). Despite this, Dash keeps an amicable friendship with Iron Will nowadays, and checks up on her daughter from time to time. Rarity, not to be outdone, designs fashions just for Iron Will's two daughters, and has taken Free on as an apprentice in her shop. Free loves reading and sitting in trees. Her closest friendships are with her half sisters Dynamo (who writes stories, then Free reads and offers suggestions) and Heart (who is like a twin sister in all but name, with birthdays so close together and growing up together). Free is allergic to hay, and suffers terrible hay fever, but she loves hay fries, even if they make her nose into a geyser. Free was adopted from TheBigEarredBat here: www.deviantart.com/thebigearre… IRON HEART - The second daughter of Iron Will, Heart was born to ??? and given up almost immediately. Her mother does not ever make an appearance in her life, and has made it clear to Iron Will that she won't let the fact that she birthed a half breed ruin her career. Heart grows up thinking that Dash's side is also hers, because it's less painful than the truth. Heart is a skilled hoofball player and roller derby player, along with her good friend Duchess Cherrypop Blueblood. She lives for sports, she breathes sports, and she does consider Ogres and Oubliettes to be a sport of its own (that she plays with her dad and sis frequently). She loves her family immensely. She's a bit over competitive, but she makes up for it by being a gracious loser, polite winner, and fantastic team player. Heart was adopted from AshuriKRBG here: www.deviantart.com/ashurikrbg/… NOTE ON THE IRON WILL FAMILY: After moving to Ponyville with his two young daughters (as the growing city was becoming a hub of education and acceptance for non-ponies), Iron Will fell back on the skill he was actually good at: Motivational Speaking! Unlike before though, this time he did a more mixed media podcast on his own radio station, a podcast that grew in popularity when his young daughters started taking part! Their most popular segment is a podcast where they play Ogres and Oubliettes (think The Adventure Zone), with listeners tuning in weekly to hear their adventures, and writing in fanart and support and suggestions for the games. --- MARIA - The daughter of Cranky, Matilda, and a generous egg donation from their good friend Steven Magnet. When Matilda and Cranky were married for a couple years, they decided they wanted a child. However, Matilda, due to being a mule, was infertile and unable to conceive. The two asked their good friend Steven for advice, and the serpent volunteered to be the egg carrier (since an egg would be "faster" than a pregnancy as far as sex change spells went). And so, Maria was born, a glorious tiny noodle with huge floppy ears. Maria stayed relatively small until she hit puberty, and then she shot up in size. By the time she was 15, she was living full time in Twilight's castle, as it was the only building large enough to hold her. Maria currently works as a guard for Twilight's moat, and an occasional babysitter for the twins. She loves her parents a lot, and goes home every night to stick her head through the front door for dinner and hugs from Matilda. She collects pets in her rooms of the castle, and is known for being as good as Fluttershy in finding a home for an abandoned creature. She's kind, and a bit ditzy, though she comes off as scary to strangers, especially when she's in "guard mode". Maria was adopted from Vindhov here: www.deviantart.com/vindhov/art… many many many moons ago "CADAVER" Born "Periwinkle Sugardrop", Cadaver was raised in an orphanage for the first 8 years of her life. At around four, a pony named Diamond Tiara started volunteering, and she grew to like the young creature so much that when Diamond Tiara became an adult and gained her inheritance, the first thing she did was adopt young Cadaver. This move was the final nail in the coffin between DT and Spoiled, and Cadaver has only met Spoiled Milk one time in her life, at a family gathering that ended in a very very loud shouting match. Cadaver started going by her name at a young age - even without access to a cutie mark, she knew her goal in life. Cadaver wants to be a doctor for non-ponies, and she absorbs any and all literature to that effect. Tired of how non-ponies are often referred to vets (despite being fully sentient creatures with opinions and unique needs), Cadaver is making it her goal to usher in better care for EVERYONE whether or not they want it. Her favorite patients are Iron Heart, who suffers a lot of sports injuries, Maria (who suffers a lot of animal bites), and herself (who in studying medicine in other places, has picked up a number of scars and injuries, since young griffons and dragons are far more bitey than young ponies). Though she rarely admits it, she sees Diamond Tiara as a mother more than a sister, as Diamond is there for her in every way a mother should be, despite being only ten years older than the young creature. Cadaver herself doesn't know what she is - half pony for sure, but her other half could be anything from cat like Capper or Diamond Dog, or some other species she just hasn't heard of, since this is Equestria and anything is possible. Cadaver was adopted from DingoBreath and her original reference is here: sta.sh/014ece0g59tq --- And there we have it! Stay tuned because soon I'll open up an ask the cast deviation and possibly some weekly meme type things (for all that eclipse discourages looking at journals)! And I can finally start on story, won't that be just lovely?

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L2018_3039 - Brian - The Station Cat - Manx Electric Railway by John Luxton Via Flickr: "Brian" does not appear to actually belong to anyone. However, he has appointed himself the unofficial Derby Castle Station Cat and has been hanging around the station for some years. He can usually be seen around Derby Castle Station - the interchange between the Manx Electric Railway and the Douglas Bay Horse Tramway. Here he is waiting for the attention of visitors at the Terminus Tavern which is within the station area.

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On The Cams Today - 27/09/19

Friday 27th September - MAINLINE CAMS

ALTRINCHAM CAM

BARKING CAMS

BEATTOCK CAM

15:28 - West Coast Railways light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z44 Carnforth Steamtown to Bo'ness Junction Exchange Siding

17:15 - Direct Rail Services Class 37s - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Carlisle to Aviemore

17:48 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0V71 Kingmoor Siding Drs to Motherwell Tmd (drs)

BEDFORD CAM

01:45 - Rail Operations Group light engine move (Diesel) - Wembley Ny No 3 Road to Leicester Loco Inspection Point

BOLTON LE SANDS CAM (freightmaster.net)

08:38 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z31 Crewe Basford Hall Ssm to Sellafield

13:30 - Direct Rail Services Class 68 - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Paignton to Carlisle

16:12 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z34 Sellafield to Crewe Basford Hall Ssm

BUSHBURY JUNCTION CAM

CAMDEN JUNCTION CAM 1 (Euston/WCML)

07:24 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 light engine move - 0M11 Wembley Inter City Depot to Euston

08:58 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 hauled ECS move (MK5 Stock) - 5M11 Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

10:11 - Caledonian Sleeper electric hauled ECS move (Classic Stock) - 5M16 Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

18:58 - Caledonian Sleeper light engine move (Electric) - 0S25 Wembley Inter City Depot to Euston

19:23 - Caledonian Sleeper electric hauled ECS move (Classic Stock) - 5S95 Wembley Inter City Depot to Euston

21:23 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 hauled ECS move (MK5 Stock) - 5S96 Wembley Inter City Depot to Euston

21:41 - Caledonian Sleeper light engine move (Electric) - 0A95 Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

23:56 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 light engine move - 0A96 Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

CAMDEN JUNCTION CAM 2 (Primrose Hill/Freight)

CHESTERFIELD CAMS (Hasland/Chesterfield Sth Jn)

11:37 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0K70 Earles Sidings (hope) Freightliner Heavy Haul to Toton Centre

23:54 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 3Q28 Doncaster West Yard to Derby Rtc Serco

CLITHEROE CAM

CRAMLINGTON CAM

00:35 - GB Railfreight light engine move (Diesel) - 0S66 Doncaster Down Decoy Gb Railfreight to Craigentinny Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

03:30 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 3Q14 Slateford Depot to Heaton Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

CREWE CAM 1 (crewehc.org)

CREWE CAM 2 (crewehc.org)

CREWE CAM 3 (crewehc.org)

CREWE CAM 4 (crewehc.org)

06:54 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z31 Crewe Basford Hall Ssm to Sellafield

17:56 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z34 Sellafield to Crewe Basford Hall Ssm

DAGENHAM (BECONTREE) CAM

DAWLISH BEACH CAMS (dawlishbeach.com)

04:48 - Direct Rail Services Class 68 - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Paignton to Carlisle

08:34 - Network Rail NMT test train - 1Q18 Reading Triangle Sidings to Paignton

DONCASTER CAM (www.socotec.co.uk)

01:48 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 1Q50 Derby Rtc Serco to Doncaster West Yard

02:14 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 1Q50 Derby Rtc Serco to Doncaster West Yard

15:01 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0L00 Leeds Balm Road Loco Freightliner Heavy Haul to Whitemoor Local Distribution Centre

FARINGTON JUNCTION CAM

03:26 - Network Rail 950001 test train - 2Q08 Longsight Traction Maintenance Depot (diesel) to Wigan Locomotive Inspection Point

08:02 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z31 Crewe Basford Hall Ssm to Sellafield

13:05 - Direct Rail Services Class 68 - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Paignton to Carlisle

16:40 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z34 Sellafield to Crewe Basford Hall Ssm

FLITWICK CAM

01:33 - Rail Operations Group light engine move (Diesel) - Wembley Ny No 3 Road to Leicester Loco Inspection Point

GRATELEY CAM (facebook.com/grateleytrains/)

HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE CAM (foscl.org.uk) 

KIRKBY STEPHEN CAM (foscl.org.uk)

LEYLAND CAM

03:28 - Network Rail 950001 test train - 2Q08 Longsight Traction Maintenance Depot (diesel) to Wigan Locomotive Inspection Point

08:00 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z31 Crewe Basford Hall Ssm to Sellafield

13:03 - Direct Rail Services Class 68 - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Paignton to Carlisle

16:47 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z34 Sellafield to Crewe Basford Hall Ssm

22:06 - Network Rail 950001 test train - 2Q08/5Q08 Wigan Locomotive Inspection Point to Longsight Traction Maintenance Depot (diesel)

NEWBURY CAM (icn-ltd.com)

06:49 - Network Rail NMT test train - 1Q18 Reading Triangle Sidings to Paignton

20:47 - Network Rail NMT test train - 1Qxx Taunton to Paddington

PETERBOROUGH CAM 1 (railworld.org.uk)

00:21 - Rail Operations Group light engine move (Diesel) - 0xxx Leicester Loco Inspection Point to Ilford Electric Multiple Unit Depot

17:57 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0L00 Leeds Balm Road Loco Freightliner Heavy Haul to Whitemoor Local Distribution Centre

PETERBOROUGH CAM 2 (railworld.org.uk)

17:57 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0L00 Leeds Balm Road Loco Freightliner Heavy Haul to Whitemoor Local Distribution Centre

PORTSMOUTH CAM 

PRESTON CAM

00:48 - Network Rail 950001 test train - 2Q08 Longsight Traction Maintenance Depot (diesel) to Wigan Locomotive Inspection Point

03:17 - Network Rail 950001 test train - 2Q08 Longsight Traction Maintenance Depot (diesel) to Wigan Locomotive Inspection Point

08:12 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z31 Crewe Basford Hall Ssm to Sellafield

13:14 - Direct Rail Services Class 68 - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Paignton to Carlisle

16:29 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z34 Sellafield to Crewe Basford Hall Ssm

RIBBLEHEAD CAMS (foscl.org.uk)

SANQUHAR CAM (sanquharstation.co.uk)

11:49 - Direct Rail Services Class 57 light engine move for Virgin Trains - 0Z19 Polmadie Carriage Maintenance Depot to Carlisle

SHREWSBURY ABBEY FOREGATE CAM (beachifa.co.uk)

11:10 - Direct Rail Services Class 68 - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Paignton to Carlisle

SLOUGH CAMS

21:07 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 3Qxx/3Zxx Reading Triangle Sidings to Derby Rtc Serco

21:20 - Network Rail NMT test train - 1Qxx Taunton to Paddington

22:55 - Network Rail NMT test train - 1Q21 Paddington to Derby Rtc Serco

ST BEES CAM

THANKERTON CAM

15:58 - West Coast Railways light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z44 Carnforth Steamtown to Bo'ness Junction Exchange Siding

17:38 - Direct Rail Services Class 37s - 1Zxx The Autumn Highlander: Day 1 (Pathfinder Tours) Carlisle to Aviemore

18:22 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0V71 Kingmoor Siding Drs to Motherwell Tmd (drs)

TODMORDEN CAM

UPHALL CAM

WATFORD CAM

15:21 - DB Cargo diesel hauled ECS move - 5Zxx Burton Wetmore Sidings to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre

YORK NORTH (SKELTON JN) CAMS

08:17 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0A90 Scarborough to Redcar Central

14:09 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0A94 Middlesbrough Carriage Sidings to Scarborough

YORK ROC CAM 1 (Station) (networkrail.co.uk)

08:47 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z20 York Parcels Sidings to York Parcels Sidings

15:08 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z20 York Parcels Sidings to York Parcels Sidings

YORK ROC CAM 2 (Avoider) (networkrail.co.uk)

YORK SOUTH (HOLGATE JN) CAMS

08:58 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z20 York Parcels Sidings to York Parcels Sidings

15:06 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z20 York Parcels Sidings to York Parcels Sidings

There is no guarantee that the services listed above will run, at the time of posting these are believed to be correct.

Friday 27th September - HERITAGE RAILWAY CAMS

LLANGOLLEN RAILWAY

(llangollen-railway.co.uk (stationholiday.co.uk)) 

GLYNDYFRDWY CAM

Towards Corwen: 10:59, 13:19 & 15:29

Towards Llangollen: 12:00, 14:20 & 16:30

NENE VALLEY RAILWAY

(nvr.org.uk)  

ORTON MERE CAM

Towards Peterborough:

Towards Wansford:

WANSFORD CAMS

Towards Peterborough:

Towards Wansford:

ROMNEY, HYTHE & DYMCHURCH RAILWAY

(rhdr.org.uk)

Home of the Railcam Rambler

DUNGENESS CAM

Departures: 10:40, 12:40, 14:40 & 16:00

Arrivals: 10:32, 12:02, 13:42 & 15:42

DYMCHURCH CAM

Towards Dungeness: 10:40, 12:40, 14:40 & 16:00

Towards Hythe: 10:32, 12:02, 13:42 & 15:42

HYTHE CAM

Departures: 10:30, 12:10, 14:10 & 16:00

Arrivals: 10:12, 11:52, 13:52 & 15:52

NEW ROMNEY CAMS

Towards Dungeness: 10:00, 11:35, 13:15, 14:40**

Towards Hythe: 09:35, 11:15, 13:15, 15:15 & 16:28*

* = Terminates here

**= Terminates here except between 1st April & 30th September only.

ROMNEY SANDS CAM

Towards Dungeness: 10:15, 11:45, 13:25, 15:25 & 16:50*

Towards Hythe: 10:58, 12:58, 14:58 & 16:18

* = Terminates here & Operates between 1st April & 30th September only.

SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY 

(southdevonrailway.co.uk)

BUCKFASTLEIGH CAM

Departures: 10:45, 12:15, 14:15 & 15:45

Arrivals: 12:00, 13:30, 15:50 & 17:00

SPA VALLEY RAILWAY 

(spavalleyrailway.co.uk)

GROOMBRIDGE CAM

Towards Eridge:

Towards Tunbridge Wells West:

SWANAGE RAILWAY

(swanagerailway.co.uk)

CORFE CASTLE CAM

Towards Norden: 10:20, 11:40, 13:00, 14:20, 15:40 & 17:00

Towards Swanage: 10:42, 12:02, 13:22, 14:42, 16:02 & 17:22

13:40 - 61306 Mayflower -  1Z61 Steam Dreams Excursion (Steam Dreams) Victoria (se)(tps Indic. Only) to Swanage

17:00 - 61306 Mayflower - 1Z62 Steam Dreams Excursion (Steam Dreams) Swanage to Victoria (se)(tps Indic. Only)

22:10 - West Coast Railways light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z62 Southampton Central to Swanage

SWANAGE CAM

Departures at: 10:00, 11:20, 12:40, 14:00, 15:20 & 16:40

Arrivals at: 11:04, 12:24, 13:44, 15:04, 16:24 & 17:44

14:00 - 61306 Mayflower -  1Z61 Steam Dreams Excursion (Steam Dreams) Victoria (se)(tps Indic. Only) to Swanage

16:40 - 61306 Mayflower - 1Z62 Steam Dreams Excursion (Steam Dreams) Swanage to Victoria (se)(tps Indic. Only)

21:50 - West Coast Railways light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z62 Southampton Central to Swanage

TALYLLYN RAILWAY

(talyllyn.co.uk) 

ABERGYNOLWYN CAM

Towards Nant Gwernol: 11:18, 12:28, 14:48 & 16:25

Towards Tywyn Wharf: 12:10, 13:20, 15:40 & 16:50

TYWYN WHARF CAM

Departures at: 10:30, 11:40, 14:00 & 15:10

Arrivals at: 12:57, 14:12, 16:27 & 17:37

PENDRE YARD CAM

Cam showing the activity 'behind the scenes' in Pendre yard. The camera is looking west from near the loco shed.

WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY

(west-somerset-railway.co.uk)

BISHOPS LYDEARD CAM

Arrivals at:

Departures at:

BLUE ANCHOR CAM

Towards Minehead:

Towards Bishops Lydeard:

CROWCOMBE HEATHFIELD CAM

Towards Minehead:

Towards Bishops Lydeard:

MINEHEAD CAM

Arrivals at:

Departures at: 

WILLITON CAMS

Towards Minehead:

Towards Bishops Lydeard:

There is no guarantee that the services listed above will run, at the time of posting these are believed to be correct.

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[danny-darkness]

Motorway Madness

Hot air pumping through the vents, the bass pumping through the speakers. Korn warms me more than the heater, Jonathan Davis' voice gives me goosebumps. Bristol ahead. The sky is overcast, tinged with sulphurous light, reflecting back from heavy pregnant clouds. 

Orange; the colour of cities, the colour of pollution. Filthy ice piled at the sides of the roads. The car tyres catch the grit and it rattles against the underside of the car. Fresh grit, gritted teeth; the pace picks up, they drive too fast, too close to the vehicles ahead, hoping to shave those extra few minutes from their journey. Close shave, close call, closed coffin.

Maybe they think they’ll outrun the snow, maybe they're just sick of this endless motorway, this eternal road that leads to nowhere. Numbed, bored, motorway monotony; middle-lane morons, mesmerised by endless white lines. 

Powdered snow scattered across wing mirrors. Tailgaters; he follows, I follow; lemmings. ABS, airbags, crumple zones; false sense of security. Lulled drivers; lullaby; bye bye.

Service station stop. Doesn't matter which one you visit, they're all cloned from the same model; the fluorescent lighting, the smell of the toilets, the same overpriced shops selling the same inflatable neck cushions and selection of awful novels; the identical diners with the same array of stale food. 

Costa coffee speed hit; guilt trip advert says 'Tiredness Kills'. So would working here. Leather massage chairs; laptop power points, stay, stay, stay; stay and spend. No thank you very much. Have a nice day. Get the hell out.

Ziggy released, fast and fleet, free from the confines of the car. His first real encounter with snow this year. Clouds of hot breath showing in the cold air, clouds of powder snow in his wake. 

I watch, half tempted to join him, to ignore common sense and just roll and wrestle, gallop and bound, to live in the now and the consequences be damned. More than half tempted, much more, but common sense and self preservation prevail; instead I content myself with throwing snowballs at him; he's too fast, of course, snatches them out of the air before I can score a hit, but hey, it makes us both happy for a while.

Back on the road, back in the car; broken or abandoned cars littering the hard shoulder, flashing yellow lights of AA break-down trucks; the fourth emergency service my ass; whichever overpaid genius came up with that particular phrase, I hope you get stuck on the side of a mountain, I hope your yacht sinks. Call the fucking £170 per year AA and see how far you get then. Maybe then you'll learn to give credit where it's due? 

The real emergency services, you know, the ones who actually save lives, and who do it for free? The Coastguards, Lifeguards, Mountain Rescue... Christ, even the S.A.R.D.A. dogs do a better job.

The M5 morphs into the M42; the Birmingham ring road; different numbers, same view. The screen-wash is freezing on the windscreen. Down to one jet; the other has frozen solid despite the antifreeze. 

Leave the junction lights behind and the roads feel ominous, sinister. Black asphalt, black ice, still nothing slows. Chain-smoking out of boredom; I'd been smoking three cigarettes a day for weeks; I've trebled that already and we've another 150 miles to go yet. The other jet has frozen now, the ice forms crazy patterns on the glass.

Away from the road the world is monochrome; the moon is just off full, its bright white light casts shadows and lights the trees at the edge of the motorway, revealing stark black branches topped with ice and snow. Christmas card parody. Anti-Christmas. Antichrist Superstar on play. 

Blue flashing lights ahead, sirens wailing in strangely fitting counterpoint to Manson's voice. Cats eyes leaving trails on the edge of my vision, new lane layout confusion; yellow lights mounted on every other cone. Everything feels distant, surreal. M42 becomes A42; the only discernible difference is that the road narrows to two lanes and the road signs become green instead of blue.

East Midlands Airport ahead; the runway starts directly next to the motorway. The planes come so low over the traffic they seem about to land in the road. Bored enough to wonder how that would look, not quite bored enough to will it to happen.

It did happen years back, Sal's dad was a doctor then; he got a police escort to Derby Hospital via Sheffield to pick up blood. I never did quite work out why they didn't just put him in one of the police cars, would have been faster than his Morris Minor; to this day he's chuffed about legally breaking the speed limit.

Castle Donnington on the left; home of the 'Monsters of Rock' and 'Download' festivals. Memories of dancing shirtless in the rain and mud, memories of dancing in the dust; so many good bands, so many years of good gigs, 'Donnington, we salute you!'.

More motorway. M1 for the next 40 miles; the lights of the Nottingham to Derby conurbation spread out to either side; Midland urban nightmare. The Mid-Lands; the middle of the country, as far from the sea as you can get in all directions.

Snowing again; without the screen-wash the wipers are struggling, salt smearing the windscreen. Visibility becoming invisibility. As the snow gets heavier and the flakes get larger we're in Star Trek and hitting warp drive. Make it so number one. Number one is not impressed, she rolls a cigarette and steers with her knees.

Snowflakes and headlights, strobe effect; shapes loom into sight, resolving into recognisable objects only at the last minute. The road is as white as the lines that divide the lanes, only the cats eyes for markers now and the cats won't see for long. Blind cats. The blind leading the blinded. In the Land of the blind, the one-eyed queen is Cat.

Leaving the motorway behind, cutting through Derby city centre. Christmas lights strung overhead. Culture shock; cars and people, people everywhere. Hoods up, collars up, heads down. 

Iggy Pop's image on the back of buses advertising insurance; WTF? Sell out, guess I should be grateful he hasn't got his dick out. Dick insurance, get your cock insured with us. Cocksure. Surely not?

A few miles of country lanes, half remembered roads and landmarks. Flashing lights round the hand painted sign at the end of the drive, beautiful old farmhouse ahead.

ANdi wakes, fixes her make-up in the mirror; I try to fix my smile in place and hope it holds, hope it lasts until it's safe to cry again. Turn the pc off and get out of the car, go inside and play at happy, play at happy Christmas.

[herocentral]

Voltron Frozen Defender

Written by Alexander Montgomery

Well folks heres the first chapter of my crossover fiction between Frozen and Voltron Legendary Defender. I first came up with this story back when seasons 1&2 were released and was inspired reading the fan fictions of others. And so let us begin.

Frozen © Disney

Voltron Legendary Defender © Dreamworks /netflix.

I do not own any of the characters in this story all belong to their respective owners, any fan characters/monsters in this story are created by me so no one is allowed to copy, trace, steal etc without my permission THIS IS JUST FOR FUN!

Chapter 1: Rift between worlds.

Far away in the cold darkness of space, thousands of lightyears away from Planet Earth an asteroid belt of ice covered asteroids, float quietly in the void. From a distance, a large ship appears with large curved spires on each side glowing blue with energy. This was the great Altean flagship The Castle of Lions, and on the bridge of the vessel are the Paladins of Voltron; Shiro, Kieth, Pidge, Lance and Hunk manning their stations along with Princess Allura and her advisor Coran, the lone survivors of the destroyed Planet Altea and the Altean race. The castle bridge holo screen displays shows a small hexagon shape on the Ice cluster indicating the presence of a signal. 

“According to the castles sensors, the distress call came from this area.” Coran relayed to the team. 

“I don’t like this guys” Kieth said with suspicion in his voice “ doesn’t it seem weird that we just happened to get a distress call just as we’re planning to take down Zarkon?”

“Paranoid much Kieth?” Lance cracked.

 The Paladins, who had been brought together by the discovery of an alien mechanical lion on earth, to find the lone survivors of a race wiped out ten thousand years ago and reassemble the mighty Voltron, Legendary Defender of the Universe. Together they battled an evil war like race known as the Galra who have one intention to capture Voltron and conquer the galaxy. The Defenders of the Universe recently found allies in a secret group of Galra known as the Blade of Marmora and have been working on a plan to defeat the Empire and restore peace. So to receive a distress call at this time would be a dangerous coincidence.  

“He does have a point you know” Pidge agreed “ this iceberg grave yard looks like the perfect place for a trap.”  

“ I realise we have concerns about this” Allura began “ but lets not forget as Paladins of Voltron, we are honour bound to help those in need, no matter the circumstances.” she reminded. 

Shiro, the leader of the Paladins looked at the ice clusters and considered everything that was said before coming to a decision. 

“ Alluras right, so lets get to our lions and take a look, but stay alert just in case.” He decided. 

On the bow of the castle ship, the four spires and the centre spire opened and from them emerge five giant mechanical lions in the colours of red, green, blue, yellow and the largest in black bearing large red and white wings. These were the Lions of Voltron, the five that would unite to form Voltron itself. They fly towards the clusters of ice in formation, red and blue on the right, green and yellow on the left with black in the centre. 

“It looks quiet.” Hunk observed from the durable Yellow Lion, “Yeah too quiet for my liking.” Kieth agreed from the temperamental Red Lion. Shiro in Paladin armour looked around the area from the violet lit cockpit of the Alpha Black Lion and even he could tell something wasn’t right. 

“I’ll scan for Bio rhythms.” Said Pidge from the intellectual and daring Green Lion. The screens and instruments on her dashboard begin scanning the area, but then a red screen with a hexagon shaped cross appears indicating theres nothing in the area.

“That’s odd, theres no sign of life here?” Said Pidge in surprise. Lance looked to his instruments showing the presence of the signal in the compassionate and fun Blue Lion “But we’re getting close to the distress signal maybe we’re not close enough yet.”He assumed. 

“Everyone keep a tight formation but be ready, I have a bad feeling about this.” Shiro said with caution.

As the lions flew deeper into the ice clusters the signal gets stronger, but as a chunk of ice flies by it reveals another chunk with what appeared to be a beacon like device piercing the surface. The lions loom over the device and see no sign of a crashed ship bringing concern among the Paladins. 

“What the cheese?” Exclaimed Lance. “ Its a beacon of some kind.” Said Pidge “and that means….”

Suddenly without warning purple energy blasts bombarded the clusters and the lions. The lions grunted as they looked up and saw above them a fleet of small alien fighters  lead by a giant alien warship with a cannon mounted in the centre, the design of the ships lead to the origin of only one alien race.

 “It’s the Galra! Its an ambush!” Shiro Exclaimed. “Scatter!” 

The lions broke formation as the fighters flew in after them. Onboard the Galra warship the bridge is manned by two lieutenants wearing grey armour with glowing purple alien symbols and helmets to cover their eyes. With them are a battalion of robotic Galra sentries. On the command station stands the fleets commander the most obnoxious and shortest of them all Commander Morvak who stands with a sinister grin on his face. 

“The fools fell into our trap” Morvak laughed “ Now capture those lions for the glory of the Galra Empire! Vrepit sa!” 

The Galra fighters fly through the clusters chasing the lions whilst firing on them but hitting the clusters. The lions try to avoid the blast but whilst the Red Lion flies to avoid them the other lions are struggling to navigate the clusters. “Guys we can’t manoeuvre in these clusters!” Lance shouted. “ We have no choice, we’ll have to get out and face them.” Shiro said” Kieth deal with the fighters in the clusters, Hunk, Lance take the left flank, Pidge take down the fighters on the right I’ll attack the warship head on!” He commanded. 

“Yes sir” Kieth replied, “Rodger that” Responded Pidge “ Lets do this.” Hunk exclaimed “Right behind you!” Exclaimed Lance as the lions separated with Blue, Black, Green and Yellow heading out of the ice clusters whilst Red stays to fight the pursuing fighters. 

The Red lion flies through the clusters avoiding the laser fire using its enhanced speed and agility. The fighters turn a corner round a large chunk of ice only to find their target is no longer present. Suddenly from behind one of the clusters the Red lion flew in fast and an invisible force slices through all the fighters which is the Red Lions jaw blade and the fighters explode behind it leaving Kieth with a grin on his face. 

Outside the cluster the Blue lion is avoiding the blasts from the chasing Galra fighters but suddenly takes a hit, shaking up Lance in the cockpit. “Whoa! things are heating up!” Lance said but then puts on a look of determination. “Time to cool’em down!” He moved the flight sticks and turned the lion around facing the fighters. The lion opens its jaws, and fires a large white beam which upon contact encases the fighters in ice and the immense cold renders them powerless. 

“ Heh heh looks like the Galra have a case of brain freeze!” Lance cracked. 

Meanwhile the Green Lion is outflying the Galra fighters but nearly gets hit with an energy blast, the lion then flies over the fighters then forms a green, grey and black cannon on its back. The cannon then fires a green energy beam at the four fighters. Upon contact without warning vines begin to grow on the fighters which then crush them in a tight grip and explode soon after.  Green emerges from the blast with a victorious roar. 

“Gee who knew the Galra had a green thumb!” Said Pidge with a smirk. 

A fighter was about to fire on the Green Lion until from the left the Yellow Lion charged into its side crushing it. The lion charges and deliberately crashes into three other fighters and tosses them off its face, and into an incoming group of fighters. The Yellow Lion could handle the beating of their laser blasts with its durable armour. 

“Wa-hoo!” Hunk yelled “ Looks like its demolition derby season for Galra fighters!” 

The Galra warship fires all its weapons on its intended target, the Black Lion, which flies to avoid the blasts from the starboard cannons, and begins to charge its Ion Cannon. The lion forms its double jawblade in its mouth and charges forward with the jets in its wings. The Ion cannon fires an enormous blast at the Black lion but it moves to avoid it and targets the cannons main supports using the jaw blade to slice into the support separating the cannon from the ship. The cannon explodes and Black flies away. The lieutenant checks the screen on the bridge and sees that the Ion cannon is destroyed. 

“Sir, the Black lions destroyed the Ion cannon and our fighters are destroyed. Shall we retreat?” He said.  

Morvak was about to answer until. “We shall not retreat.” Another voice answered for him, a voice that sent a shiver down his very spine. He turned to see a hooded individual who’s cloak covered half her face with glowing yellow eyes and blue skin with red marks on her face. It was Haggar high priestess of the Galra Empire. 

“If you are too incompetent to capture the lions Morvak. I shall handle this, personally.” She said with a hint of venom in her voice. Outside the Lions had defeated the remaining fighters as the Black lion flies towards them. “Team report.” Shiro called “Fighters are down Shiro.” Kieth replied “ Then lets take down that warship.” Shiro ordered knowing what to do next. “Everyone get ready to form…” Suddenly Shiro cries in pain as he begins to feel a surge of power striking him and his lion. “GAAAAAAAA!” 

“Shiro!” Exclaimed Kieth. “Look” Pidge pointed the other Paladins to the source of the dark energy striking the Black Lion. It was coming from the warship emanating from the hands of Haggar. “It’s the witch!” Lance exclaimed “ We can’t let her get the Black Lion, TAKE HER DOWN!!” Kieth ordered as the four lions fired energy blasts from their mouths and at the warship to blast the witch. She moves quickly to avoid the energy blasts almost like a black blur. Haggar fires a dark blast at the lions which they are quick to avoid before returning fire. 

The Red Lion looks back to see the Black Lion floating lifeless in space. “Shiro, you okay?! Shiro!”Kieth called but got no response until Kieth hears a groan over the comms. In the lions cockpit Shiro is recovering from the blast he took. “I… I��m okay” He breathed as he tried to reboot his lion by moving the flight sticks but theres no response.”But my lions not responding.”He said. The Lions continued to stand their ground against Haggar, who is about to fire another blast until an incoming blast from the starboard side of the warship knocks her off balance taking her by surprise. She turns and glares at the source of the blast. The Castle of Lions. 

“Coran focus fire on the warship!” Allura exclaimed from the bridge “Rodger that Princess!” Coran replied firing on the Galra ship. Using the opportunity the lions group up towards their alpha. Though Haggar tries to defend herself from the castle she sees the lions grouped together in one place and decides to strike, giving a yell as she generates a massive orb of dark energy and fires it at her prey. In the Blue Lion, Lance caught sight of a dark glow from behind them and sees the energy blast coming towards them. 

“LOOK OUT!” Lance shouted as he quickly turns his lion to face the energy blast and fires a blast from its mouth, colliding with the witches dark magic. The energy builds up and an orb begins to form. Pidge looks at the energy readings coming from it and realises the collision is causing something to happen. “Lance stop it!….” Suddenly the orb explodes and engulfs everything in a bright light blinding The Paladins, Haggar, Allura, and Coran. The light soon fades, the Galra Warship has been reduced powerless and Haggar is unconscious. In the Castle of Lions, Allura and Coran are also rendered unconscious. However, there is one party not present and that was the Voltron Lions almost as if they’d simply vanished. 

Elsewhere

High in the cool night sky, the Northern Lights shine, whip and flicker in the silence of the night. Far below this vibrant majestic sight was the kingdom of Arendelle, its populace were all sound asleep in their homes. High in the hills close to the snowy mountain five individuals sat on the grass covered ground near the forest.  These were the royals of the kingdom, Queen Elsa and her sister Princess Anna with the Kingdoms Ice master and deliverer Kristof, his reindeer companion Sven and Olaf the little snowman who was created by Elsa. They all sat in front of a large rock and the evergreens around them had small traces of snow on the ground. They looked up at the night sky waiting for something. 

“Ohhh how much longer do we need to wait?!” Anna said excitedly “Relax Anna, you won’t have to wait much longer.” Chuckled her boyfriend in assurance. “I can tell why your excited” Said Elsa putting her hand on her sisters shoulder.” Its only once every three years that millions of shooting stars appear in the sky above Arendelle.” “Yeah I’ll bet its the most amazing thing ever.” Said Olaf with a smile.

A month had passed since Arendelle had been thawed from an eternal winter accidentally caused by Elsa during her coronation. However, thanks to her sister the kingdom was saved and the two sisters were reunited after years of being apart. Sven then notices something in the sky and nudges Kristofs shoulder with his large nose getting his attention. Kristof sees what his friend is seeing and points it out to Anna and Elsa. As they look up to the sky they saw an amazing sight, millions of shooting stars soar across the sky through the Northern lights harmonsing with the very colours of the sky itself. This vibrant display reflected in their eyes and Anna all but marvelled at this display.

Although a beautiful sight, Anna looked to her elder sister and noticed a mild look of sadness on her face. “Elsa?” getting her sisters attention. 

“Its nights like this that make me think of when Mom and Dad took us to see this when we were kids.”Said Elsa sadly. Annas expression turned to sympathy as she too remembered how their parents brought them to this very spot years ago. She placed her hand on her sisters shoulder, 

“ I know”she said” I wish they were here too.” making her elder sister smile a little. “ Hey look there.” Called Kristof bringing their attention to the sky. They looked to see five stars shooting across the sky in colours of violet, red, green, blue, and yellow. 

“Ooo pretty.” Awed Olaf, whilst Anna and Elsa looked up in amazement. A notion then popped into their heads and so they closed their eyes, as its said that making a wish on a shooting star before it disappears the wish would come true. Elsa took a moment to think about what to wish for, and out of everything she could think of only one thing came to mind.

” I…I wish… for someone to bring me happiness” she whispered quietly so that even Anna couldn’t hear her, but its said we must be careful what we wish for.

High above, the stars are actually the Voltron Lions crashing down from the sky. Inside the powerless Black Lion, Shiro who is finding it hard to stay conscious is trying to guide his lion down to the ground. Black begins to fall away from the rest of the group, and inside the other four lions Kieth, Lance, Hunk and Pidge are doing the best they can guide their lions into a controlled crash. 

“Come on come on!” Kieth growls trying to pull his lion out of the crash. “ Yellow come on work for me!” Hunk tried.”Come on Blue anytime now!!” Lance panicked. Pidge looked outside and saw they were drawing ever closer to the ground. “Theres no time!” She cried “ EVERYONE BRACE YOURSELVES!” Shiro shouted. 

As they braced themselves for the crash and the ground drawing ever closer Lance could only say one thing. “ Oh Quiznak!” The Lions crashed to the ground knocking down trees and leaving a trail of drag marks behind them sliding on the ground, building up a mound of dirt and rocks in front of them eventually bringing them to a halt. Steam poured from the lions as they cooled down. 

Inside his lion Shiro begins to stir groaning as he did. He could see his lion was depowered, and the cockpit was completely dark. He emerges from the Black lion via the escape hatch located in the top of its head. He looks around his surroundings and sees he’s crashed in the middle of a forest at night. Shiro climbs down from his lion, but upon touching the ground he feels weak and dizzy realising he hasn’t fully recovered from his attack, but never the less, fights to stay awake. 

“Princess. Come in.” Said Shiro activating the com channel in his helmet, but can’t get any response.”Coran respond please.” still no answer. “ Anyone.” There was only one sound static. He walks through the forest to find where his teammates crashed. He begins to climb a steep hill looking to see the Black Lion a distance behind him. 

He feels tired and exhausted but forces himself to stay awake.

“…Shiro…re…..ou…re?….” Suddenly he heard a weak transmission coming through and he recognised the voice. “Kieth, is that you? Can you hear me?” Shiro answered back but there was no answer. He guessed it was due to the dense forest so he heads higher up the hill. 

“Shiro, Come in are you there?” The signal got stronger. “Kieth, I’m here you guys okay?” 

Not too far away the other Lions had crashed and their Paladins had just climbed out of their lions, and Lance anime style fell face first to the ground.

 “Shiro, you made it are you okay?” Kieth said in relief that his friend was okay. “Yeah I’m okay how about you?” Shiro asked “ We’re a little battered but alive.” Kieth answered “Speak for yourself.” Groaned Lance as he got up.” The last time I got a headache like this there’d better be a simulator involved” “Oh no Lance” Said Pidge looking around the crash site “ this turned out a lot worse than the last time you crashed a simulator.” Suddenly they heard the sound of someone hurling and they all knew who it was Hunk as he was being sick after falling from space. 

“ Sorry so sorry” he breathed before vomiting again much to the teams disgust “Hey you have to admit, thats a new record he’s never gone that long before” Pidge observed tilting her glasses. “So where are you?” Kieth asked.

In the hills deep in the forest

Shiro looks around to get his bearings.”I’m not too far from you, but I’m not sure where…” Shiro then groaned slightly and leaned against a tree. “Shiro, Shiro you still there?!” Kieth called “ Ngh, I’m fine” Shiro groaned “I just…” “You don’t sound fine, your probably still beat up from the blast you took.” Pidge interrupted. Suddenly they were startled by a howling sound echoing through the forest which spooks Lance and Hunk.

 “W… Was that a wolf!” Lance said in surprise. Shiro could hear this too, and he activated the torch light on his gauntlet and shined it towards the trees. He looked closely and in the darkness he could see something disturbing, it was white eyes with growling. He wasn’t alone. 

“Shiro, whats going on?!” Kieth said over the com Shiro moved his right hand and it began to glow purple and tried to stand his ground as the wolves emerged from the shadows growling and staring at their prey. Shiro soon realised he was too weak to fight and so there was only one choice. Run. He scurried down the hill with the wolves close behind, Shiro uses his cyber prosthetic hand to slice down a tree to try and slow them down but the wolves jumped over it. 

“Shiro whats going on SHIRO!” Kieth shouted over the com Shiro couldn’t answer as he was trying to evade the wolves. One was getting very close to him and tried to leap onto him but he was able to swat it away with his prosthetic hand. Suddenly he saw the edge of a cliff he could see the jump was too far but he had no choice, he activated his armours jet pack which gives him a powered jump across the gap. 

Suddenly the jet pack over heats mid way across, Shiro can see he won’t make it so he thrusts his prosthetic hand into the rock and screamed in pain as he dangles from the cliff edge. The wolves stop at the cliff edge and bark at their escaped prey as he climbed back up onto the ledge and rolls on his back in exhaustion. Later , he continues walking down hill but he’s tired and exhausted and begins to see double vision. In doing so he doesn’t see where he’s going and trips on a rock sending him rolling down hill hitting some rocks, loses his helmet and finally hits the ground and loses consciousness. “Shiro, are you there, Shiro, Shiro!” Echoed Kieth on the helmets com. 

Nearby the Arendelle royals, Icemaster and snowman were riding back to the kingdom on Kristofs sled pulled by Sven going down the hill slopes. As they rode along Sven smelled something in the air and then out of the corner of his eye he saw something near the forest. He stops rather suddenly to the surprise of the passengers. 

“H-hey whats up Sven? Why’d you stop?” Asked Kristof, Sven began snorting trying to point them to something but they couldn’t understand what. “Buddy I can’t understand you when you talk like that.” Said Kristof, Sven frowned and moved his head to the right. 

“ I think he’s seen something.” Anna guessed so they looked to the right to see what it was the reindeer had seen. Olaf then saw something. 

“Hey guys, not sure this is going to help but theres someone lying down over there.” He said directing their attention. They looked and Elsa could see what looked like a man lying down on the ground.

 “ Oh no!” Said Elsa who immediately dismounted from the sled in concern she Anna, Kristof, and Olaf ran over to where the man was. 

They came up and saw the man was wearing black and white armour with some glowing blue lines and an arrow like shape on the chest plate. He had black hair with a white forelock and on his face he had a large scar across the bridge of his nose. The sisters knelt down and turned him on his back and saw he was rather beaten up.

 “Is he…” Anna asked “No he’s alive, just unconscious” Kristof said checking for a pulse. “What happened to him?” Anna asked her sister” I don’t know” Elsa answered “ but right now he needs help lets get him back to the castle.” With that Kristof picked up the man and carried him to his sled and loaded him onto the cargo area. However Elsa couldn’t help but wonder who was he?

Elsewhere:

Far in the darkest corners of space, stood a large alien fortress surrounded by fleets of warships in the centre of the star system surrounded by gas planets. The sight of the fortress sends fear down the spines of even the bravest of warriors for this was the stronghold of the Paladins of Voltron’s most hated enemy. On the bridge of this warship, Haggar silently enters the room aproaching the throne in the centre of the room and knelling before her master, the most vile of all the Galra race Emperor Zarkon.

“Sire” Said Haggar eerily “I regret to inform you our ambush has failed, and the Voltron Lions have… disappeared.” Zarkon sat on his throne tightly clenching its arms in anger.” How” he spoke.” I attempted to render the lions powerless,” Haggar began “ but the Blue Lion intercepted my dark magic with its own blast of energy, the collision of which caused an explosion. What happened to the Paladins after that I regrettably don’t know.” She finished awaiting her emperors response.

“Do not despair Haggar.”Zarkon began with darkness in his voice “ There is nowhere in this universe that they can hide from my visions reach. We will find them, we shall wipe the Paladins of the face of the universe forever and claim Voltron once and for all.” Zarkons eyes glowed with purple energy as the hunt for his quarry had begun. 

Chapter 1 done folks chapter 2 will come soon.

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Laborers unloading the freshest of arrivals truck and ladies' man for the sweetest girlies in town Down-on-their luck drifters including paroled thieves, dealers and pimps buggy racing across the desert on a stimulant Steal to survive, thrive by wits alone or turn tricks clothing snatching the eyes The safest, usually with a jewelry store in the basement Branding, tattoos and body mods done on site army boys marching in lockstep Take the mopping job to be close to princess fresh blood their hearts pump gunpowder and their minds are weapons Not eligible for mind-wipe or re- placement drinking vodka instead Bio-engineering students replace bodies with machines Take ancient engine of destruction for a joyride feeding time at the botanical garden Plush and velvet splendor in a chintz chair Women have success, men fail at the Bite-o-Mania food cart An illegal basement chop shop for bikes and cars and cold, hard cash covered in a soft, warm peritoneum Working stiff possessed by envy for the office drone The deserters next attack could be your bunker Wayward sentinent Kryton tubes generating waste heat unlikely to survive outside controlled environment Thought-leader and crowd-driver influencing the masses are almost human, subject to scientific curiosity Livery with carved iconography and bright colors Mendicants, beggers and mercenaries almost pick your own lot Old Mother Mallard's Rusty Charognards Saloon Gliding as long as possible until the last moment The screaming and wailing of fetid winds If too deep you'll fall the rest of the way through the earth and hit whatever is on the other side This is the essence of skydiving or free falling in layman's terms so you may substitute it for the eggs damaging it or even break so try for that speed also, learn the location you will fall or descend from and do you math using the freefall calculator on this site i give you : Just forward momentum, right? Well it really isn't it's just like anchoring a parachute except your moving object is the Earth and not yourself ther are lines in this story that just keep tugging away at you after losing your love to the treachery of a jealous witch hmF! Sorry, my intent was not to stubivkzny ah, I mean stQrb? b you

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On the road with Boris Johnson - a photo essay

Stefan Rousseau, chief political photographer of the Press Association, reflects on a month on the election trail with the Tory leader

On 6 November, the prime minister’s office called me to ask if I’d like to photograph Boris Johnson leaving 10 Downing Street on his way to see the Queen to ask her to dissolve parliament, which in turn would fire the starting gun on the general election campaign. Since that day, I have been on the road with the prime minister without a break. The first full day took us to Hampshire, Teesside, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Derby.

Johnson makes his way back onto his battlebus after visiting Wilton Engineering Services in Middlesbrough on 20 November

Johnson in 10 Downing Street on the day of his audience with the Queen, which marked the formal start of the general election

Above: Johnson visits Coronation Candy in Blackpool on 15 November

Right: Johnson visits Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream, near Redruth, on 27 November

Far right: Johnson on a tug boat in the port of Bristol on 14 November

Johnson during a visit to David Wilson Homes in Bedford on 21 November

Johnson talks to aides while flying to Scotland on the first day of the election campaign on 7 November

Above: Johnson travels to Telford in Shropshire to unveil his party’s general election manifesto on 24 November. Above right: Johnson boards a train at St Pancras station in London bound for a day of election campaigning in Kent on 6 December

Johnson leaves the station at Castle Cary, Somerset, November 14

14 November, Somerset: clockwise from top left: shaking hands during a walkabout in Wells; Johnson visits a bakery in Wells; he leaves the station at Castle Cary, meets pupils at West Monkton primary school in Taunton

Paul O’Rourke, who served with the Royal Irish Rangers, looks on after meeting Johnson during a visit to a veterans centre in Salisbury on 3 December

Boris Johnson and Lee Cain, director of communications, head to the Kent Event Centre, Maidstone, on 6 December

Left: Protesters outside Wilton Engineering Services in Middlesbrough as Johnson visits while on the campaign trail on 20 November.Right: Johnson in Plymouth, Devon, on 28 November

Johnson visits West Cornwall community hospital, in Penzance, on 27 November

Johnson visits the Royal Welsh Showground, in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, on 25 November

During a visit to the International Aviation Academy, in Norwich, on 26 November

Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/10/on-the-road-with-boris-johnson-a-photo-essay

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Complete Guide to Nottingham East Midlands Airport

Nottingham East Midlands Airport is located in a central position near to Castle Donington in Leicestershire. The cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham are all within a 30 mile radius of the airfield: from the M1 motorway take junction 23 or 24, and if you are travelling on the M42, continue on this road until it eventually turns into the A42 and then follow the airport signs. Nottingham East Midlands Airport has become a hub for the "no frills" airlines EasyJet, bmibaby and Ryanair, and operates a range of domestic and European short haul destinations. You can catch both scheduled and charter flights from East Midlands Airport and we provide details on all the airlines and holiday companies, and where they fly to.

You can get to and from East Midlands Airport by a variety of methods including Private Transfers where you would be met in the arrivals hall by a driver who will then take you on to your chosen destination. The airport taxi service is run by a company called Checker Cars who have a desk in the arrivals hall. You can either pre-book a Taxi to East Midlands Airport from Leicester or hop into a taxi when you arrive, although the queues can be rather lengthy during peak times.

There are no trains from the airport but you can take a bus to the main railway stations of Derby, Nottingham, Lough borough and Long Eaton. The buses leave from outside the arrivals area and include National Express Coaches which travel to Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Luton, Heathrow and Gatwick Airports. We provide full details of routes and timetables in our airport guide.

 If you want to hire a Leicester to Birmingham airport for catching another flight from Birmingham airport, when you arrive then you have the choice of four companies who are based in the terminal building. It is advisable to pre-book your rent a car as this ensures that you will get the make and model you require, and also cuts down on time filling in paperwork when you arrive. We provide full contact details of the entire car hire firms at the airport and others in the area as well as local chauffeur and limousine hire companies.

The arrivals hall at the airport is fairly small. As you walk through into arrivals, you will see the car hire companies and the Leicester to Heathrow taxi desk as well as a coffee bar and newsagents. Airport shuttle buses (to the car parks) are situated to the right outside arrivals where the Easy jet building is. We also provide information on live flight arrivals at East Midlands Airport.

The airport departures hall is on the ground floor and is relatively small with only one row of check in desks. To the left is the Easyjet check-in hall which is adjacent to the main check-in area. We provide information on live flight departures at East Midlands Airport as well as details of the shops at East Midlands Airport which include a duty free outlet and newsagents for you to purchase something to read on your journey. Our guide to bars and restaurants provides full details on where you can get something to eat and drink in the arrivals and departures areas.

If you want to leave your car at East Midlands Airport there are over 4,000 car parking spaces offering short, medium and long stay parking. For further details visit our guide to parking at Leicester Airport Transfers.

We have written a general information section on the airport with details on disabled facilities, internet access, VIP/executive lounges and where you can change your money at East Midlands Airport as well as local weather conditions and a forecast for the next 5 or 10 days.

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PART 4

Utena has turned into a car.

I think it is incumbent on the viewer at this point to try to unravel both why this makes sense as a gesture and why it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Point 1: It’s a magical girl transformation sequence.  Ikuhara, having worked on Sailor Moon, knows all about this stuff.  The beats of a transformation sequence are as follows: upon activation of an arcane device, a girl loses all her clothes and emerges clad in fetish gear.  The ideal transformation sequence from a commercial perspective ends up with a girl wearing an outfit which appeals as much to young girls as it does to grown men.   As has previously been established, grown men like cars – but this car is hot pink, shaped like a uterus and is trying as hard as it can to be a horse.  Or two horses.   It is a “car” in the same sense that Sailor Moon is a “high school girl”.   It has been optimized to serve all of the needs of the academy at once.

Point 2:  What we are dramatizing here is the fact that despite her avowed wish to leave the academy Utena has still been socialized in patriarchy and therefore cannot fully transcend her status as a player of the academy’s game.   When she took Anthy’s hand and led her in the general direction of “out” she was still playing prince, saving the damsel in distress.  This gesture does not work because the academy owns it.   When she attempts it, she is revealed as what the academy forces her to be: an object.  An exciting, ambiguously-gendered object, admittedly, an object which is absolutely up to date and this year’s model, but an object that is nonetheless made to please a particular audience.  As long as Utena can still be the receptacle of male fantasy – as prince or princess – the story cannot work.

Point 3: Back in the old academy Anthy’s role in the final confrontation was to get stabbed a whole lot and lie in a coffin.   Of course, something important and transformative did take place there, and the gesture that changed the academy did come from Anthy in the end; but she didn’t look cool doing it.  Utena did all of the on-screen work.   If Anthy is retelling the story here she wants to emphasize that despite all of Utena’s princely self-sacrifice the most difficult thing anyone did in that room was reach out of that coffin.  She also wants to emphasize that she’s the top.

Akio killed himself earlier because he was unable to find his “key”.  He lost it when he realized that Anthy was, if not enjoying herself, at least tacitly “consenting” to what he had been doing to her, which was, as far as he was concerned, not nearly as hot as the whole drugged princess routine. Anthy, however, already has Utena’s key. Get it?  What we are emphasizing here, in case anyone got the wrong idea from the TV-mandated chasteness of the original series, is that queer desire is actually an integral part of the revolutionary moment.  Anthy is able to go through with this because she really, sincerely wants to fuck Utena’s brains out.

So Utena’s sex car is saved from rusting away from disuse.   The shadow puppet girls arrive to give Ikuhara’s old buddy Anno a shout-out and the race is on.

It’s worth considering whether there might have been a way to do the car metaphor without going full bananas zany with it – whether we might have found some kind of tonal harmony between Touga in the cabbage patch and Anthy in the driver’s seat.    It would probably not have worked but I would have loved to see an attempt.  As it is, the narrator has gone manic and we are flying, buddy, we are up in the clouds.

The shadow puppet girls (who apparently all have pink hair in this universe – emphasizing their artificiality, I suspect) complete their setup and a new challenger enters the race.

Shiori’s car looks kind of like Soundwave from Transformers.  I always liked Soundwave.  Her car is also considerably more phallic than Utena’s, having as it does a cycloptic bull for a figurehead.   Shiori is acting as an agent of the academy here simply by making this a race, rather than an obstacle course - the idea that only one special person gets to leave the academy at a time plays right into the prince/princess narrative.  It’s not a part of the story that Anthy particularly wants to dispel, either, which may be telling.

Shiori says the line of century, which I’m going to render literally for maximum effect: “It’s a big mistake to think that you were the only one who was able to turn into a car.”

Behind the bull Shiori is a big ol’ Chrysler station wagon with frilly upholstery. She underscores the crabs in a bucket motif by saying that only she is cool enough to do something as neat as escaping the world before crashing into a retaining wall and exploding in a completely unforced error, which makes sense when you consider that nobody’s driving her.

Anthy has a nasty sense of humor.

Next up are the thousand drone tanks of the world’s resentment.  The jokes are flying thick and fast now – the shadow puppet girls pick up the encroaching horde on a “vegetable scanner” which superimposes the danger on a picture of a salad, and the three filler dudes who were so fillery that I never mentioned them once in my recap of the original series show up with radar guns. The drone horde also makes a lot of really high-pitched honking sounds.  The director wants us to know that he knows that this is stupid.  The viewer may well ask what all that trauma from before was about, in that case, but there’s no time, the drones are attacking.

Utena’s chassis is effed up in much the same way that her uniform was back when she fought Touga that one time.  Like the opening theme says: “what I want is to find my place in life and my self-worth, taking who I've been up until today and heroically stripping her down until she's bare, like the roses whirling in freedom.”  Cast off that magical girl fetish gear, and be free!  And nude. While we continue to film you.  Trust us, it’s all very liberating.

Just as our heroes are about to be splatted by the biggest drone of them all, a tow hook shoots out from nowhere.  It’s our heroes’ friends!   Or… people who we can assume they made friends with, off screen, at some point!

Ikuhara shouting in the distance: “Oh, the whole bandminton game thing was too subtle for you, huh?  Need to have everything spelled out for you, huh? FINE”

They are driving Wakaba, a Jeep.  (The utility vehicle is truly the plain friend of the motorsports world.)  Explaining their presence, Juri says that high ideals attract noble companions. (I like overtly conceited Juri, and wish her incarnation from the original academy had had a little bit more of that going on.)  Miki tells Anthy that they will definitely follow her outside at some point.  I do not believe him.

The final challenge approaches.  It’s a giant Disney castle on wheels.

Thanks, Ikuhara.  I am beginning to see a Point 4 emerging to complement points 1 through 3 above, straight from the director: “If I make this as shiny, noisy and overt as possible, maybe you idiots will pay attention this time.”

The castle hoves massively into the lane in front of them as somewhere in the distance the bongo player goes nuts.   The shadow puppet girls implore Anthy to turn around and head back, but she’s not running anymore.  Suddenly, the car is wearing a dress.  Car Utena gets a secondary transformation - like, that wasn’t even her final form – like, you got your DBZ in my Sailor Moon, you got your Sailor Moon in my DBZ – like, we are now somehow even more uterus-shaped –

The extended dance mix of Rinbu Revolution starts playing, and let me just say that it is an incongruous choice for a car chase/demolition derby.  Anthy makes it through the castle, to general rejoicing, but there remains one final obstacle.

Point 5: to make all this masculine bullshit appear as silly as possible.

Akio tells Anthy that if she goes out there all she’s going to find is the end of the world.  Which is true, of course – the point of the whole castle palaver, the point of all this fetishizing of youth and innocence, is to keep death at bay.    If you can’t grow, you can’t die; but of course if you can’t grow, you can’t live, either. 

Akio tells Anthy to go back to being a living corpse.  (He can’t find his key, otherwise.)  Anthy tells him to fuck off so he squeezes them between some giant tank treads.

 Utena there, getting denuded again, of course.

Then this happens.

The prince is very, very dead.  The castle collapses in a hail of rose petals and eurodisco.  The shadow puppet girls lose their animating essence and become straw dolls named “Tenjou Utena” and “Himemiya Anthy.”  Cause they were puppets the whole time, see?

“Real” Anthy and “Real” Utena chat about how there are no roads in the outside world and so they will have to make one themselves.  They say this as they are literally driving on a road.   Still on screen and still being filmed, the two girls recline naked on a speeding motorcycle and make out, as you do once you have been freed from the male gaze.  

We end on a shot of another castle in the distance, which seems like a hopeful sign but should be the most ominous fucking thing in the world, if you’ve been paying attention.

The only possible conclusion is that they have not actually escaped.

In the end I can only interpret the last act of this movie as a titanic shrugging of the shoulders, an admission of a failure to envision what escape from this milieu actually looks like.  In this failure it invited other authors to take a crack at the same problem using the same kind of symbol language, which is how we got Madoka and its “let’s reframe choosing to be the Bride, who is still absolutely necessary to the functioning of the universe, as a revolutionary act in and of itself” thesis, among other things.   Ikuhara has a lot to answer for.

The problem of course is that a genuine escape from the academy should probably not be written by someone who has a vested interest in the academy’s continued existence; and so I think if anyone does end up writing the Utena story with an ending that works, it won’t be Ikuhara, or, not to put too fine a point on it, dudes generally.

Then again it’s possible that outside the academy there are things besides writing and rewriting the same old story to worry about.

[railcamuk]

On The Cams Tomorrow - 14/06/19

Friday 14th June - MAINLINE CAMS

ALTRINCHAM CAM

BARKING CAMS

BEATTOCK CAM

22:15 - Direct Rail Services Class 37s - 1Z85 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Barrow-in-furness to Fort William

23:56 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

BEDFORD CAM

BOLTON LE SANDS CAM (freightmaster.net)

05:16 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0C67 Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs) to Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs)

07:14 - Direct Rail Services Class 68s - 1Z84 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Bangor (Gwynedd) to Ravenglass For Eskdale

19:40 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

20:02 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0K70 Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs) to Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs)

BUSHBURY JUNCTION CAM

CAMDEN JUNCTION CAM 1 (Euston/WCML)

07:24 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 light engine move - 0M11 Wembley Inter City Depot to London Euston

08:58 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 hauled ECS move - (MK5 Stock) - 5M11 London Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

09:44 - Caledonian Sleeper Electric hauled ECS move (Classic Stock) - 5M16 London Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

18:58 - Caledonian Sleeper light engine move (Electric) - 0S25 Wembley Inter City Depot to London Euston

19:23 - Caledonian Sleeper Electric hauled ECS move (Classic Stock) - 5S95 Wembley Inter City Depot to London Euston

21:23 - Caledonian Sleeper Class 92 hauled ECS move (MK5 Stock) - 5S96 Wembley Inter City Depot to London Euston

21:41 - Caledonian Sleeper light engine move (Electric) - 0A95 London Euston to Wembley Inter City Depot

CAMDEN JUNCTION CAM 2 (Primrose Hill/Freight)

CLITHEROE CAM

CRAMLINGTON CAM

CREWE CAM 1 (crewehc.org)

16:39 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

CREWE CAM 2 (crewehc.org)

07:07 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 1Q44 Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site) to Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site)

08:50 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F22 Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site) to Wavertree Jn

10:58 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K23 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

11:14 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F24 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

12:58 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K25 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

13:16 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F26 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

15:03 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K27 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

15:26 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F28 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

17:02 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

17:26 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K29 Wavertree Jn to Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site)

CREWE CAM 3 (crewehc.org)

08:50 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F22 Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site) to Wavertree Jn

10:58 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K23 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

11:14 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F24 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

12:58 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K25 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

13:16 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F26 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

15:03 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K27 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

15:26 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F28 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

16:39 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

17:02 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

17:26 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K29 Wavertree Jn to Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site)

CREWE CAM 4 (crewehc.org)

00:57 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0C18 Arpley Sidings to Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M.)

03:51 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0C67 Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs) to Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs)

08:51 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F22 Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site) to Wavertree Jn

10:55 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K23 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

11:00 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z66 Arpley Sidings to Crewe Salop Goods Jn

11:16 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F24 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

12:54 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K25 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

13:17 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F26 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

14:49 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z69 Crewe Salop Goods Jn to Arpley Sidings

14:56 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K27 Wavertree Jn to Crewe

15:27 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0F28 Crewe to Wavertree Jn

17:06 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

17:25 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0K29 Wavertree Jn to Crewe C.S. (L&Nwr Site)

20:12 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0K63 Ditton Reception Sidings to Crewe Bas Hall L.H.S.

21:31 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0K70 Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs) to Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs)

21:53 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0K27 Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M. to Arpley Sidings

22:10 - Freightliner light engine move (Diesel) - 0K82 Garston F.L.T. to Crewe Bas Hall L.H.S.

DAGENHAM (BECONTREE) CAM

DONCASTER CAM (www.socotec.co.uk)

13:50 - Rail Operations Group light engine move (Diesel) - 0E24 Loughborough Brush to Doncaster Works Wagn Shops

FARINGTON JUNCTION CAM

04:45 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0C67 Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs) to Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs)

06:42 - Direct Rail Services Class 68s - 1Z84 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Bangor (Gwynedd) to Ravenglass For Eskdale

18:20 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

20:26 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0K70 Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs) to Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs)

FLITWICK CAM

GRATELEY CAM (facebook.com/grateleytrains/)

HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE CAM (foscl.org.uk) 

KIRKBY STEPHEN CAM (foscl.org.uk)

LEYLAND CAM

04:43 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0C67 Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs) to Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs)

06:40 - Direct Rail Services Class 68s - 1Z84 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Bangor (Gwynedd) to Ravenglass For Eskdale

18:18 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

20:31 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0K70 Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs) to Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs)

NEWBURY CAM (icn-ltd.com)

PETERBOROUGH CAM 1 (railworld.org.uk)

PETERBOROUGH CAM 2 (railworld.org.uk)

PORTSMOUTH CAM 

PRESTON CAM

05:01 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0C67 Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs) to Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs)

06:56 - Direct Rail Services Class 68s - 1Z84 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Bangor (Gwynedd) to Ravenglass For Eskdale

19:03 - DB Cargo light engine move (Diesel) - 0Z65 Crewe T.M.D. (E) to Mossend Tmd

20:18 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0K70 Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs) to Crewe Gresty Bridge (Drs)

RIBBLEHEAD CAMS (foscl.org.uk)

SANQUHAR CAM (sanquharstation.co.uk)

SHREWSBURY ABBEY FOREGATE CAM (beachifa.co.uk)

04:38 - Colas Rail diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 3Q84 Canton Pullmans to Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail) (Station View ONLY)

11:48 - Locomotive Services Ltd diesel hauled ECS move - 5Z27 Crewe H.S. to Bristol Temple Meads (Station View ONLY)

SLOUGH CAMS

ST BEES CAM

08:15 - Direct Rail Services light engine move (Diesel) - 0C98 Sellafield B.N.F. to Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg(Drs)

19:57 - Direct Rail Services Class 37s - 1Z85 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Barrow-in-furness to Fort William

THANKERTON CAM

22:58 - Direct Rail Services Class 37s - 1Z85 The Three Peaks Challenge (Private Charter) Barrow-in-furness to Fort William

TODMORDEN CAM

05:52 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0P68 Longsight Car. M.D. to York

UPHALL CAM

03:39 - Direct Rail Services diesel hauled Network Rail test train - 1Q18 Mossend Down Yard to Mossend Down Yard

WATFORD CAM

YORK NORTH (SKELTON JN) CAMS

YORK SOUTH (HOLGATE JN) CAMS

07:46 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0P68 Longsight Car. M.D. to York

09:18 - TransPennine Express Class 68 light engine move - 0M68 York to Longsight Car. M.D.

There is no guarantee that the services listed above will run, at the time of posting these are believed to be correct.

Friday 14th June - HERITAGE RAILWAY CAMS

LLANGOLLEN RAILWAY

(llangollen-railway.co.uk (stationholiday.co.uk)) 

GLYNDYFRDWY CAM

Towards Corwen: 

Towards Llangollen: 

NENE VALLEY RAILWAY

(nvr.org.uk) 

ORTON MERE CAM

Towards Peterborough: 

Towards Wansford: 

WANSFORD CAMS

Towards Peterborough: 

Towards Wansford: 

ROMNEY, HYTHE & DYMCHURCH RAILWAY

(rhdr.org.uk)

Home of the Railcam Rambler

DUNGENESS CAM

Departures: 10:40, 12:40, 14:40 & 16:00

Arrivals: 10:32, 12:02, 13:42 & 15:42

DYMCHURCH CAM

Towards Dungeness: 10:40, 12:40, 14:40 & 16:00

Towards Hythe: 10:32, 12:02, 13:42 & 15:42

HYTHE CAM

Departures: 10:30, 12:10, 14:10 & 16:00

Arrivals: 10:12, 11:52, 13:52 & 15:52

NEW ROMNEY CAMS

Towards Dungeness: 10:00, 11:35, 13:15, 14:40**

Towards Hythe: 09:35, 11:15, 13:15, 15:15 & 16:28*

* = Terminates here

**= Terminates here except between 1st April & 30th September only.

ROMNEY SANDS CAM

Towards Dungeness: 10:15, 11:45, 13:25, 15:25 & 16:50*

Towards Hythe: 10:58, 12:58, 14:58 & 16:18

* = Terminates here & Operates between 1st April & 30th September only.

SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY 

(southdevonrailway.co.uk)

Special Event Timetable TBC

BUCKFASTLEIGH CAM

Departures:

Arrivals: 

SPA VALLEY RAILWAY 

(spavalleyrailway.co.uk)

Steam Driver Experience

For more information see https://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk/product.php?xProd=101&jssCart=a02f66f7201075df7202398b7f62bdcd 

GROOMBRIDGE CAM

Towards Peterborough:

Towards Wansford: 

SWANAGE RAILWAY

(swanagerailway.co.uk)

CORFE CASTLE CAM

Towards Norden: 10:20, 11:40, 13:00, 14:20, 15:40 & 17:00

Towards Swanage: 10:42, 12:02, 13:22, 14:42, 16:02 & 17:22

SWANAGE CAM

Departures at: 10:00, 11:20, 12:40, 14:00, 15:20 & 16:40

Arrivals at: 11:04, 12:24, 13:44, 15:04, 16:24 & 17:44

TALYLLYN RAILWAY

(talyllyn.co.uk) 

ABERGYNOLWYN CAM

Towards Nant Gwernol: 11:18, 12:28, 14:48 & 16:25

Towards Tywyn Wharf: 12:10, 13:20, 15:40 & 16:50

TYWYN WHARF CAM

Departures at: 10:30, 11:40, 14:00 & 15:10

Arrivals at: 12:57, 14:12, 16:27 & 17:37 

WEST SOMERSET RAILWAY

(west-somerset-railway.co.uk)

BISHOPS LYDEARD CAM

Arrivals at: 11:30, 13:50, 15:52 & 16:30

Departures at: 10:15, 12:40, 14:40 & 16:20

BLUE ANCHOR CAM

Towards Minehead: 11:19, 13:44, 15:45 & 17:44

Towards Bishops Lydeard: 10:22, 12:47, 14:48 & 16:48

CROWCOMBE HEATHFIELD CAM

Towards Minehead: 10:30, 12:55, 14:57 & 16:42

Towards Bishops Lydeard: 11:18, 13:38, 15:40 & 17:40

MINEHEAD CAM

Arrivals at: 11:35, 14:00, 16:00 & 18:00

Departures at: 10:05, 12:30, 14:30 & 16:30

WILLITON CAMS

Towards Minehead: 10:50, 13:17, 15:20 & 17:18

Towards Bishops Lydeard: 10:55, 13:17, 15:18 & 17:18

There is no guarantee that the services listed above will run, at the time of posting these are believed to be correct.