I used to do it back in the noughties for regular work trips to Runcorn (sometimes Warrington). On occasion I had four sets of tickets. Sometimes three sets all on one train ! I could travel first class for a fair bit less than the price of a turn-up-and-ride standard class ticket.
VB
How did you work it all out back then, Graeme? Was it just word-of-mouth or intrepid people putting in lots of combinations to see what happened to the price?
Research physicists are jacks-of-all-trades. So I was the one who was intrepidly putting in price combo’s. Goodness knows what it cost the taxpayer in terms of my time.
To be fair it was always starting at Didcot Parkway and it was only ever ending up at Runcorn or Warrington Central. There were two main routes: Didcot-Oxford, then Birmingham-Wolverhampton-Stafford then on to the end, or Coventry-Nuneaton-sometimesCrewe then on to the end. The price break points always came at the same places. The only variation was my travel times, which affected when I moved in and out of rush hour pricing. I could normally sort out the best deal and make the booking in 10 minutes.
VB
How to stop that kind of thing happening
Climate scientists predicted this would - in time - become a lasting result of anthropogenic climate change. If they’re correct, it means our climate will come to resemble that of Nova Scotia really quite quickly (decades).
Javan Mouse Deer is a thing
Mogwai number 1 in the UK.
They (and everyone who got behind them) have done it.
Well done lads 
I was pretty unsure about the LP on the first couple of plays but it is growing on me. It needs to be played VERY LOUDLY to work properly IME.
The more I watch that the more it becomes Graeme
When I was younger, perhaps, and had more hair 
. Although I could run (a bit) better than that then.
VB
Second half of the LP is very good.
John Cazale starred in only five films in his lifetime: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon & The Deer Hunter 
If you’re only going to do five movies, it would be hard to pick a better handful
Died very young from cancer, during filming of The Deer Hunter
I thought Michael had him killed…
Incredible really - most actors don’t get to star in even one film of that quality.
I had no idea he’d done so few movies - I don’t know if this is true or not but was always led to believe the bar scene near the end of the The Deer Hunter was filmed after he told everyone he was dying. Also Meryl Streep nursed him right up until he passed away. 
DeNiro and Streep threatened to quit the production when the studio wanted Cazal dropped. DeNiro paid Cazal’s insurance out of pocket
I hadn’t realised that he was married to Streep until his death
There’s some lovely photos of them together.
Just reading about him on Wikipedia - apparently they rescheduled shooting the entire film so the scenes with him could be shot first.
Apparently he appears in 1990’s Godfather III in archival footage, meaning that every single film he ever appeared in was Oscar-nominated.