The 9pm Eurostar Mystery in Brief

New Eurostar class 374 trainset formed of units 4008/4007, based on the Siemens Velaro series, on HS1, near Sellindge, UK. (Kabelleger / David Gubler, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

This brief episode of the Edict is an update to the story of the so-called “RS Archer” and the mysterious disappearance of their Twitter account. Was it J K Rowling?

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Weekly Wrap 494: Avoiding fires, finding faults, reading court decisions

The Burwood Hotel

My week of Monday 11 to Sunday 17 November was spent in Sydney, apart from just one night. Friends persuaded me to avoid the Blue Mountains on Tuesday’s “catastrophic” fire danger day — though things turned out fine up there — and I stayed down for the rest of the week for a few Health Patrol duties.

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