Braving the footbridge of peril

You can't spell infrastructure without the letters R, U, S and T. And this rattling footbridge at Pontyclun station certainly had some. 

The rust pattern on the underside of the steps was almost artistic. 

I was at the station in my first Plaid Cymru leafleting for the month. I was next to the bridge as groups of schoolkids used it to cross the tracks on their way to school. The whole bridge rattled when the express trains thundered through, and even just when people walked across, which was alarming to hear at first. 

We were brave and stood on it for a selfie though!

I like visiting all these different stations, and I particularly liked this Transport for Wales poster. I'd rather be a late bird, I think.

You want me to what?

These posters have been put up around my workplace.

Now I'm all for raising funds to cure cancer, but the choice of slogan is open to (pervy) misinterpretation. I'm not sure everyone would be happy if I 'unleashed my inner pink'. Especially in a predominantly female office.

Of course, this ambiguity might be what they were going for, to 'get people talking' (or blogging). But I'm sure there are ways of putting it that would sound a bit nicer.

She hangs her head in shame

My friend Clare is a major film fanatic (97 films in the cinema last year). So I was a bit surprised when she emailed me for help in identifying film posters, especially as one of the film posters she was stuck on was this:

I replied "Seriously?" One of the most iconic film posters of all time? Didn't the fact that that's Darth Vader's head in the background give it away? She was suitably embarrassed when I pointed it out.