I’m on the train to Preston. It got to Blackburn ok where people getting off were told to mind the gap, but in nearly half an hour we haven’t moved. The line to Preston is blocked for what we have been told could be some considerable time.

Have UNICEF or the Red Cross arrived yet?

Someone needs to arrive. The train has now officially been terminated at Blackburn and I’m now making my way out.

Thoughts and prayers

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:48 am

Someone needs to arrive. The train has now officially been terminated at Blackburn and I’m now making my way out.

just emailed you

Yes please I’ll come out of the station

Fretters wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:53 am

just emailed you

Yes please- now outside the station

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:58 am

Yes please I’ll come out of the station

I'll be there in 10-15 mins, head to the cinema side.

Fretters wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:00 pm

I'll be there in 10-15 mins, head to the cinema side.

I’m out that side now by the bus replacement stand.

Is it safe?

My thoughts and prayers are with you CT

Be reight, as long as youre not wearing a saddle.

Someone rescue him quickly!!

Send in SAS.
Oh on second thoughts that may not be such a good idea.

Is CT now rescued ??? Could someone update us on this nailbiting thread.

Absolutely brilliant. The wonders of UTC. Got a lift home from Fretters and big thanks to him.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:48 pm

Absolutely brilliant. The wonders of UTC. Got a lift home from Fretters and big thanks to him.

Great news ... UTC to the rescue

Surely, if you were going to Preston, Fretters should have given you a lift to Preston?

lakedistrictclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:09 pm

Surely, if you were going to Preston, Fretters should have given you a lift to Preston?

Perhaps the Trauma of having to alight in the 3rd World of Blackburn proved too much, and CT was better off heading home for a brew and a lie down

lakedistrictclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:09 pm

Surely, if you were going to Preston, Fretters should have given you a lift to Preston?

Burnley General had the soonest availability for his inoculation jabs

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:12 pm

Perhaps the Trauma of having to alight in the 3rd World of Blackburn proved too much, and CT was better off heading home for a brew and a lie down

Very much so and in any case too late for my meet up with old work colleagues in Preston. After the stresses of being trapped there I was just thankful to be home.

Fretters wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:20 pm

Burnley General had the soonest availability for his inoculation jabs

Surely he should have had the inoculations BEFORE alighting at Blackburn?
Pretty reckless and irresponsible imo particularly with the risk of missing tomorrows home game- or infecting others

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:48 am

Someone needs to arrive. The train has now officially been terminated at Blackburn and I’m now making my way out.

Mind the gap!

I will get in touch with Bob Geldoff and get him to arrange a concert

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:50 pm

Very much so and in any case too late for my meet up with old work colleagues in Preston. After the stresses of being trapped there I was just thankful to be home.

Luckily travelling incognito.

It does show that there is no fretting with Fretters on your side.

Deed of the day.

Shaun1983 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:18 pm

I will get in touch with Bob Geldoff and get him to arrange a concert

Every time I clap, someone gets abandoned in Blackburn

Good job you weren’t wearing a Clarets shirt !!!

FCBurnley wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:43 pm

Good job you weren’t wearing a Clarets shirt !!!

No one can read there, they're all colourblind as well

FCBurnley wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:43 pm

Good job you weren’t wearing a Clarets shirt !!!

I wore one on the walk from the train station to the college the morning after they got relegated in 99'. Simultaneously the most stupid and satisfying thing I've ever done. It was an eventful walk.

Just look out for the signs Tony

Does make me laugh when the fiddlers bang on about Burnley being this and that.

I've family on my partners side that live in bburn so I unfortunately have to go there fairly regularly. It is a complete and utter shi-te hole. Spice head central.

Far far worse than Burnley.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:09 pm

I’m out that side now by the bus replacement stand.

What was it like ?
Did you see the Thunderdome ?

It Is What It Is wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 2:47 pm

No one can read there, they're all colourblind as well

Nothing wrong with being colourblind

UTG

Early nomination for spontaneous and best thread of the year..

Maybe you’re a candidate for counseling CT?
When my office was based in Blackburn, I as having a check up at the doctors ( Dr McDevitt) and he asked where I was working. On hearing my reply, and with a straight face, he said he could refer me for counseling if I wanted.

Roosterbooster wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:54 pm

Nothing wrong with being colourblind

UTG

Had to log in just to like this.
Well played Sir 🫡

Fretters wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 12:00 pm

I'll be there in 10-15 mins, head to the cinema side.

Blackburn has a cinema?

I've only stopped in the town once, which was enough, but ended up spending part of the day in the library, as that seemed the most exciting way to pass the time.

Surely Fretters should get an award at the end of year awards event. For services to BFC supporters above and beyond the call of duty.
CT probably had to have several showers when he got home.!!

IPAclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:59 pm

Does make me laugh when the fiddlers bang on about Burnley being this and that.

I've family on my partners side that live in bburn so I unfortunately have to go there fairly regularly. It is a complete and utter shi-te hole. Spice head central.

Far far worse than Burnley.

Both towns are shi-te holes

Burnley's only saving grace is that it's a smaller shi-te hole

Row x" post_id=2437486 time=1729928088 user_id=9130]
Both towns are shi-te holes

Burnley's only saving grace is that it's a smaller shi-te hole
[/quote]

I disagree and I know both towns very well.

Cliviger, Worsthorne, Towneley, Harle Skye, Haggate, Lane Bottoms, Ightenhill Park Lane, Rosehill, Lowerouse, Pike Hill, Gawthorpe etc I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.

IPAclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:42 am

Row x" post_id=2437486 time=1729928088 user_id=9130]
Both towns are shi-te holes

Burnley's only saving grace is that it's a smaller shi-te hole

I disagree and I know both towns very well.

Cliviger, Worsthorne, Towneley, Harle Skye, Haggate, Lane Bottoms, Ightenhill Park Lane, Rosehill, Lowerouse, Pike Hill, Gawthorpe etc I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.
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Couldn't agree more. I'm less than 2 miles from the town centre here but it's almost rural.

clansman wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:19 am

Surely Fretters should get an award at the end of year awards event. For services to BFC supporters above and beyond the call of duty.
CT probably had to have several showers when he got home.!!

Several and as my grandma would have told me, I needed a good scrub.

IPAclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:42 am

Row x" post_id=2437486 time=1729928088 user_id=9130]
Both towns are shi-te holes

Burnley's only saving grace is that it's a smaller shi-te hole

I disagree and I know both towns very well.

Cliviger, Worsthorne, Towneley, Harle Skye, Haggate, Lane Bottoms, Ightenhill Park Lane, Rosehill, Lowerouse, Pike Hill, Gawthorpe etc I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.
[/quote]

Pleasington, mellor, langho, belthorn, mellor brook, fenniscowles, cherry tree, lammack, Wilpshire, I could go on but that's not the point, name the shi-hole parts and both will have similar number, but Burnley's will be smaller, not as big as shadsworth or higher croft.
There was a whole thread recently saying how bad Burnley town centre was at night, Blackburn's the same, though I don't think many people venture out to it

I think you need to only venture out with a carer if Blackburn scares you

Row x wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 9:03 am

I disagree and I know both towns very well.

Cliviger, Worsthorne, Towneley, Harle Skye, Haggate, Lane Bottoms, Ightenhill Park Lane, Rosehill, Lowerouse, Pike Hill, Gawthorpe etc I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.

Pleasington, mellor, langho, belthorn, mellor brook, fenniscowles, cherry tree, lammack, Wilpshire, I could go on but that's not the point, name the shi-hole parts and both will have similar number, but Burnley's will be smaller, not as big as shadsworth or higher croft.
There was a whole thread recently saying how bad Burnley town centre was at night, Blackburn's the same, though I don't think many people venture out to it
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Mellor Langho,parts of Wilpshire and Mellor Brook are in the Ribble valley and bordering South Ribble Belthorn is largely in Hyndburn, Feniscowles and Lammack are becoming more run down, Pleasingon is nice I'll give you that.

timshorts wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:06 am

Blackburn has a cinema?

I've only stopped in the town once, which was enough, but ended up spending part of the day in the library, as that seemed the most exciting way to pass the time.

Two strangely, quite close together too.

I've lived here for six years now and can see Ewood Park from my garden. I didn't realise this when I bought the house in the July, it was only when the leaves on the trees behind us disappeared a few months later and revealed the true horror of my new reality.

clansman wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 8:19 am

Surely Fretters should get an award at the end of year awards event. For services to BFC supporters above and beyond the call of duty.
CT probably had to have several showers when he got home.!!

He was fine, once over the border I drove us through a car wash and left all the windows open.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 9:00 am

I disagree and I know both towns very well.

Cliviger, Worsthorne, Towneley, Harle Skye, Haggate, Lane Bottoms, Ightenhill Park Lane, Rosehill, Lowerouse, Pike Hill, Gawthorpe etc I could go on but I'm sure you get the idea.

Couldn't agree more. I'm less than 2 miles from the town centre here but it's almost rural.
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Fortunately there's areas like that in most east Lancashire towns, even Blackburn

Fretters wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 26, 2024 9:52 am

He was fine, once over the border I drove us through a car wash and left all the windows open.

Got drenched in the car wash too with the windows open