Edubytes South Central Meet - Salisbury, July 26th 2018 - Everybody welcome!

[mikeprice]

Has anyone thought to sort out a present for @witch and @elsigee40 for helping to arrange things

 

a nice bottle of perfume might be appreciated;)

[AJWhite1970]

Has anyone thought to sort out a present for @witch and @elsigee40 for helping to arrange things

 

a nice bottle of perfume might be appreciated;)

 

One step ahead of you

 

[StevieM]

I am happy to wait at the station to form a Walking Bus

 

If anyone wants to join the station walkers, just tag or PM me

 

Are you supplying the hi-viz tabards or will people have to bring their own?

 

We have a line of pre-school toddlers who waddle past every day in their bright yellow vests, with an adult at the front. They look like a row of ducklings. Cuteness overload!

[failnator]

Are you supplying the hi-viz tabards or will people have to bring their own?

 

We have a line of pre-school toddlers who waddle past every day in their bright yellow vests, with an adult at the front. They look like a row of ducklings. Cuteness overload!

 

I can bring my fire marshell one

[enjay]

Are you supplying the hi-viz tabards or will people have to bring their own?

 

We have a line of pre-school toddlers who waddle past every day in their bright yellow vests, with an adult at the front. They look like a row of ducklings. Cuteness overload!

 

Are they walking in pairs and holding hands too, like the chain I pass some mornings?

[failnator]

Are they walking in pairs and holding hands too, like the chain I pass some mornings?

 

The ants probably are

[StevieM]

Are they walking in pairs and holding hands too, like the chain I pass some mornings?

 

No, they have a rope with hoops that they all hold on to.

 

Anyways, back on topic - With all this talk about trains and walking buses, I did a quick check to see just how much it would cost for me to get the train to Salisbury next Thursday. The cheapest ticket was £117.20... one way! Car and a campsite it is, then.

[LeMarchand]

The cheapest ticket was £117.20... one way!

 

 

...and they wonder why people don't use public transport!

[enjay]

...and they wonder why people don't use public transport!

 

It is the same where I live. A bus into town and back costs £4 (or £9 for a group of 4 people). 2 hours in the town centre multi-storey is also £4.

[failnator]

£18 for me anytime yeovil to salisbury

[elsiegee40]

It would cost the Kent contingent an arm and a leg, but there is one train an hour from Waterloo at £9 to Salisbury.

 

It is always worth using a ticket splitter sitesuch as splitticketing if travelling by train. Or, as @BKGarry and I do, use your standard cheapest options to get to/through London and then just book one of the £9 specials separately

Edited July 18, 2018 by elsiegee40

[BKGarry]

Does Paddington go to salisbury?

 

We always have gone via waterloo

[enjay]

It is always worth using a ticket splitter sitesuch as splitticketing if travelling by train. Or, as @BKGarry and I do, use your standard cheapest options to get to/through London and then just book one of the £9 specials separately

 

Reminds me of this https://metro.co.uk/2017/06/27/man-flies-from-newcastle-to-london-via-spain-because-its-cheaper-than-the-train-6737975/

[LeMarchand]

Does Paddington go to salisbury?

 

Don't know, but he went to Shepton Mallet prison in his last film.

[elsiegee40]

Does Paddington go to salisbury?

 

We always have gone via waterloo

 

Derp! I meant Waterloo! Post edited

[BKGarry]

Just think, all the money saved with split ticketing, you could sponsor me with it https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/garry-gardiner5

[StevieM]

It would cost the Kent contingent an arm and a leg, but there is one train an hour from Waterloo at £9 to Salisbury.

 

Really? All the way from here for £9? Oh, the Waterloo in London.

 

It is always worth using a ticket splitter sitesuch as splitticketing if travelling by train. Or, as @BKGarry and I do, use your standard cheapest options to get to/through London and then just book one of the £9 specials separately

 

I had a look on the split ticket site and I could go from Liverpool via Newport (S. Wales) for £47! Not that I'm going to, but that's a bit different from what National Rail quoted.

[mikeprice]

Really? All the way from here for £9? Oh, the Waterloo in London.

 

 

yeah - damn southerners copying our town names

very confusing

[Andrew_C]

Probably cheaper from Waterloo in Belgium...

[CAM]

So where is it we are going? I thought it was the Greyfisher pub for some reason.

[Oaktech]

So where is it we are going? I thought it was the Greyfisher pub for some reason.

 

That was the *old* plan... Current plan is picnic in the cathedral close or in the Office if it heaves it down.

[AJWhite1970]

Greyfisher was plan B incase it was raining on the day but with little hope of that (ever) happening we are sticking with plan A which is an everyone bring something for yourself and something for everyone else picnic on the cathedral grounds just behind my place, I'll supply bread, crisps, dips and salad etc so people don't have to struggle on the trains with 4 French loaves and a tub of potato salad

[failnator]

Greyfisher was plan B incase it was raining on the day but with little hope of that (ever) happening we are sticking with plan A which is an everyone bring something for yourself and something for everyone else picnic on the cathedral grounds just behind my place, I'll supply bread, crisps, dips and salad etc so people don't have to struggle on the trains with 4 French loaves and a tub of potato salad

 

Thank god, I would have eaten it all on the train to Salisbury XD

[CAM]

Ahhh OK. Can you DM me the parking details please so I can re-plan my route. Thanks.

[Mewdewgooboofoo]

ill bring a crate of some sort of pop