Signal fault brings train chaos
Rail services into and out of Edinburgh have been slowly resuming following an early morning signalling failure which hit rush hour trains.
The fault near Haymarket station in the capital brought trains to a standstill with thousands of commuters affected.
I resorted to a bus journey in the end, which took 1 hour 42 minutes. It took a circuitous route through various towns – I got off less than 40 miles from where I boarded. I arrived at my desk three hours after leaving the house.
To put that in perspective: I could have been in London via aeroplane in the same amount of time.
A short obit on the BBC site announces that
Actor Don Adams, best known as bumbling spy Maxwell Smart in 1960s TV spy spoof Get Smart, has died at the age of 82.
Farcical and repetitive though it was, I did rather enjoy Get Smart. Good theme tune too. Ten years ago, the series was briefly resurrected (with Smart retired, so not a Columbo-esque delayed detective retirement), and there were a 1980 film and a 1989 TV movie (the latter featuring John de Lancie, Trek fans) – but the classic 60s series, co-created by Mel Brooks, ran from 1965 to 1970.
What the BBC story doesn’t mention is that Don Adams would be better known to those under forty as the voice of 1980s cartoon character Inspector Gadget, who was himself based on Maxwell Smart. The original series ran from 1983-1986 and Adams went on to voice the spin-off Gadget Boy and voiced Brain in the Matthew Broderick film version.
Cleaning out an old website today, I came across some extra information to add to my Gig List. Despite being unable to remember anything about their set at all, I apparently saw Echobelly at V97.
It also turns out I saw tall comedian Marcus Brigstocke do standup in December 1997. No memory of it whatsoever.
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