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    greetings from the granite…

    And a big wave from Aberdeen …just! Yesterday’s journey was always going to be something of a tightrope walk (necessitating as it did a 5am start) but all still went according to plan until I arrived at Scarborough station with time to spare only to find that the early train had been cancelled, the next service (helpfully suggested by the…

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    a whole new world…

    So, was anybody local (other than me) paying enough attention to spot Scarborough in Utopia? Twice in the opener/prologue/flashback episode too (and with the old Terry’s chocolate factory in Episode 2 as a bonus). I’m slightly ashamed to admit to having screen grabs, but only so that I could bend my walk to the Post Office in that direction the…

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    yoga at 1013 feet…

    …or nearly that; sadly Friday’s blazing sunshine and soaring temperatures (that led me to skulk, fugitive-like in a shady corner of Cardinal Place with my packed lunch to avoid getting seriously frazzled) were nowhere to be seen at London Bridge at 8am on Saturday morning, meaning that the open-air viewing platform at the Shard was Off Limits For Health And…