Yup, once again snow we were warned was coming, had about a week to prepare for...has brought the rail network to a grinding halt ( Read more... )

Rail strike is CANCELLED.

Well, postponed, more, as the rail company won in court to have it stopped. But the unions won't give it up, they'll ballot again and still call their workers out. But it's not going to be next week, and right now, that's good enough for me!

The planned rail strike for next week is stressing me out ( Read more... )

I blew a valve on my bike, so I'm currently walking to and fro the station. At the mo, both journeys are done in the dark. Morning is especially lonely at half five ( Read more... )

Just been for dinner with a cousin of mine who I haven't seen in 7yrs and then discovered he works in an office ten mins away from where I work. Massive result, as he's a lovely guy ( Read more... )

An annoying woman has begun to get my train in the morning. Worse, she gets on MY doors of my train. There's 16 sets of doors and she picks mine. 5 days in and I literally only have to see her and I'm slightly annoyed. She's an odd one. The first day I only saw her from behind, and I guessed her to be late 20s/early 30s, from her clothes. But no, ( Read more... )

...I bought something more expensive than anything else I have ever bought ( Read more... )

Why, when the iPods are so lovely, do Apple still insist on making some of the worst headphones around? They are shit and I need to find my other ones ASAP. (Can't listen to iPod on the train because the bleed out of these apple ones is so bad the rest of the carriage actually hears my music better than I do)

...when I was a grumpy teenager, I'd've been pretty sure anyone who looked forward to going back to work after a weekend was 'sad'. Yet I find myself in this very situation...

Had a chat with one of my friends over breakfast this morning afternoon...we were discussing our ambitions. She said she wanted to do 'something' before she died - something ( Read more... )

I've been terrible at updating. I can only blame this on work being slightly stressful, and trains being completely shit and getting me home late ( Read more... )