Blessed are the trainspotters

Thanks to Bernard … https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3351958650313771495 … I’ve had a splendidly unexpected and interesting day but it’s thanks to the nice elderly trainspotter that I actually made it.

On a bit of a whim I checked the trains to Manchester and, weirdly, the price of the ticket was about a third cheaper if I went from Oxenholme so I bowled down but was very short of time and missed the train I was aiming for because the parking machine wouldn’t accept my card. The nice trainspotter man had who, in my rush, helped direct and then explain the system to me, then paid for my ticket and I reimbursed him with old fashioned cash which I luckily had enough of. He was waiting for two steam trains that were due to pass through. He told me when my next train would be along and which carriage to get on and which side to sit and said I’d see the train at around Carnforth. I was sure he would be exactly right and so I had my phone ready as we whizzed past and managed to snap at just the right moment … so it had to be the main blip in the end!

I walked down to The Whitworth to see the Turner exhibition … https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turnerinlightandshade/  …and Bobby Baker’s Edible Family in a Mobile Home, part of the Women in Revolt!  exhibition … https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/womeninrevolt/


I was soon flagging so I decided to find some different food. I get so fed up of the lack of anywhere interesting to eat up my way, and of my own cooking. I found some Indian street food at Bundobust and as I sat eating a young chap who works there sat next to me, on his break to eat his dinner. We had a great chat and Archie kindly offered me some of his paneer tikka to try and told me he was in his last year of his photography degree so, of course, I showed him blip.

I nipped off to catch my train and was back again in no time.

I’ve added a collage in extras to give a flavour of the diverse exhibition experience …
The Edible Family in a Mobile Home
The mother with the teapot head and walls, ceilings and floors lined with papers from 1970’s.
The baby, eaten by the time I got there.
No, to Torture (After Delacroix ‘Women of Algiers’) by Houria Naiti
Greenham Common - ‘We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods’ - Virginia Woolf 
Turner, ‘View of the Beach at Margate’