Travel and transport writer, coach tourism consultant, photographer, theatre supporter, travels a bit.
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Stuart Render retweeted
Time for some awards...
and it's the ITAs up first!
With Stuart Render
#BGTWAwards2026
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🏆 It's tonight! The sold-out BGTW Annual Gala Awards Dinner.
We’re delighted Friuli Venezia Giulia @VisitFVG are presenting our top accolade: BGTW Travel Writer of the Year.
Congratulations and good luck to @TravelTramp_UK, Tristan, @DanStables, @DomTulett & @jessicagvincent!
Disappointing to see the BM director blaming visitors wanting to spend longer viewing the embroidery for part of the reason for the hiatus. Blaming your visitors for anything isn’t a great approach - assuming he did actually say that of course!
I think perhaps you're not! And that conclusion is based on meeting you in a hotel foyer in Wolverhampton a few years ago. Of course, I could be wrong!
The team responsible for bringing ‘The Market Deeping Model Railway Club’ to @NottmPlayhouse deserve all the plaudits that have been coming down the track their way. Funny and emotional, the story is delivered exceptionally well by the ensemble cast. Nicely done.
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You may have seen that Keir Starmer apologised for the forced adoption scandal of the 50s/60s/70s this week. I made an (award winning!) documentary about my own forced adoption and now, with perfect timing, it’s back on Radio 4.
Have a listen.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pmk…
On another May I interest you in Strand, the throughfare in central London. Regularly but incorrectly written with the definite article. I feel we can blame Stanley Holloway's music hall song lyrics for that. Not legal-related but interesting all the same - possibly.
Nice grammatical explanation. In London, the famous thoroughfare, Strand, regularly attracts the definite article, which is, of course incorrect. Let's blame Stanley Holloway's music hall song for the inconsistency!
This also happens at the JAL check-in desks at London Heathrow, usually just before check-in opens. It's a show of respect, something that you find on Japanese trains, in shops and elsewhere. Oh that that culture was echoed elsewhere.
A smile at a weekend.
Brilliant from @chiwithaC. She has Jenny and Lee nailed on.
