Soon be home time thank heavens.  Hopefully I'll do better tomorrow.

Hi Pen,

Different Folks, Different Strokes.  I used to look forward to getting to work.  Even in those few times when the work was boring or unpleasant or the bosses were a pain, there was always great people to work with.

My rebus yesterday was about a railway in East Sussex.  Today it is about a train in Australia, its name, its terminuses and an interesting station along the way. 

               

Terminus (7)
      Component 1 (4). Picture 1 (4 6). Replace first letter of first word with “L”.
      Component 2 (3). Picture 2 (4). Discard last letter.

Interesting Station ( 8 )
      Component 1 (5).  Picture 3 (6). Replace one “T” with a “K”. Discard one “T”.
      Component  2.(3).  Picture 4 (6 2 8 14).Tertiary degree. Use Abbreviation.

Terminus ( 6 7).
      Component 1.  Picture 5 (3 5).  Use homophone of full first name.
      Component 2 ( 7).
          Subcomponent 1 (4).  Picture 6 (5).  Make homophone.
          Subcomponent 2 (3). Picture 7 (5).  Discard first 2 letters.

Name (3 4).
     Component 1. (3). Picture 8.
     Component  2. (4). Picture 9.

It is complimented by another service.  Can you guess the name of that train?

My rebus is a television series (and an episode) which I'm going to start watching.  From the trailer I've seen it definitely seems worth a look. 

Hi Pen,

Not only was it a good rebus, it was a good tip.  I watched the first episode while I was scoffing my sushi and sushimi for lunch.  It looks like it will be a good series. 



While we are on the subject of TV series, the other night when we were watching the Inspector Linley Mysteries, a funny little train like the one above went running past several times. It is a serious train even though time of the complete journey is only approximately 10 minutes.  He solution to the rebus is the name of the two terminuses.

      

Terminus 1 (7).  Picture 1.
Terminus 2.(7)
     Component 1. (3). Picture 2.
     Component 2. (4).  Picture 3

Hi again, Pen.

A quick pot pourri  of Shiraz induced material.

My rebus is the title of a novel by one of your favourite authors.



Word 1. (9).
     Component 1. (5). Picture 1.
     Component 2. (4). Picture 2. It’s a bit fishy.

Word 2 (7).  An anagram of its components.
     Component 1. (4). Picture 3. A southern French City.
     Component 2. (3). Picture 4. It’s time

Forgive me.  I thought I'd introduce a bit of levity.

Hi Pen,

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

My rebus is an example of an English homophone.

     

 

Word 1 (17)
   Component 1 (7). Picture 1.  Thanks for noticing this was one short, Pen.
   Component 2 (5). Picture 2. Any one.
   Component 3 (5). Picture 3.  Usage - Scotland or Northern England.

Word 2 (7)
   Component 1 (3). Picture 4.
   Component 2 (4). Pronounced as Picture 5 (5).

ET wants to know if any of these look like your place, Pen

Hi Moira,

Thanks.  Are you game to answer the question?

The title of your poem was fun to solve but, as you rightly say, the poem is neither happy or uplifting.  I understand that I'm probably a lone voice in the wilderness preferring more cheerful or funny stuff! 

Hi Pen,

Two posts ago I spent some time developing a rationale for the proposition that it is a benefit to our long term happiness and self development to occasionally confront quality material that is not cheerful or funny stuff.

After the post had been up for several hours, I revisited it and removed the rationale from the post leaving just ET's happy poem.

I had two reasons for deleting the material.

First, I do not have the right, particularly in this forum, or the expertise, to advise people on how they should pursue their happiness and self-development.

Second, although I believed what I wrote, the rationale was not sufficiently developed or well enough written to persuade anyone, who didn't agree with me, around to my point of view.

Pen, every lone voice in the wilderness has the right to be heard.

I have to be out for the rest of the morning but will try for another post later today.

There were no sheep, so I missed Carder.

Hi Carol,

I don't know if Tobias got up to any mischief with the Angel but I can assure you unless Angels have different reproductive processes than humans the Angel is not pregnant. ET assures me the angel is Raphel and Raphel is male.