Surprise!
I did, in fact, get up just before 5.30 and went for a jog (and this despite having forgot to set my alarm). Now on train Birmingham-bound. Oddly alert but have a coffee just in case.
Had an incident on the way to Euston. At my tube station at Manor House I decided to walk down the escalators to the train. Towards the bottom, one of my shoes came loose and tangled under my foot. There was a slow-motion panic as I tried to save myself/the shoe and then I went down just as the escalator was ending (quite hard with the backpack of papers on my back)...
... and was hauled up by my arm by the guy behind me. He then plucked both my shoes (which had fallen off) off the end of the escalator and deposited them in front of me. I thanked him profusely but he just looked disgruntled by the entire episode!
I felt quite shaken afterwards - had to have a little sit-down on the bench on the platform for the three minutes till the next train. I really must be ageing.
Had an incident on the way to Euston. At my tube station at Manor House I decided to walk down the escalators to the train. Towards the bottom, one of my shoes came loose and tangled under my foot. There was a slow-motion panic as I tried to save myself/the shoe and then I went down just as the escalator was ending (quite hard with the backpack of papers on my back)...
... and was hauled up by my arm by the guy behind me. He then plucked both my shoes (which had fallen off) off the end of the escalator and deposited them in front of me. I thanked him profusely but he just looked disgruntled by the entire episode!
I felt quite shaken afterwards - had to have a little sit-down on the bench on the platform for the three minutes till the next train. I really must be ageing.