25 Jun 2007
Hello mum
Apparently I have a regular reader (most probably just the one) - so I'd like to say hello to Bonus Lady's mum.... Hello mum!
Monday, 25 June 2007
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
What I learnt at the weekend
05 Jun 2007
what I learnt at the weekend...
What I learnt at the weekend was.... don't agree to do something before working out how you're going to do it. This less than profound thought came to me at 4.45am on Sunday morning, as my alarm went off and I got up contemplating the prospect of spending 8 hours on a coach travelling to and from Northampton. A few weeks ago I agreed to go to a friend's confirmation on Sunday morning. I've visited there before so I knew the train was fairly quick from London, and that you couldn't book tickets in advance. I therefore didn't check train times until Saturday, at which point I discovered that there were no trains between London and Northants on this particular Sunday. There was a replacement bus service but it didn't get in til 10.10 and the service was at 10.15. No problem, I thought, it's not that far away, I'll get a coach... and then found that coaches from Victoria don't start until 9am on Sundays, and it's a 2 hour journey. They'll let you travel from Northants to London early on the weekend, but not the other direction. Hmm... Next tactic was to see if I could travel from Oxford. Yes I could, but not before 9am... Finally I had the inspired thought that coaches run all night to airports, and checked Heathrow. A 7.10 bus would get me there on time, there was just the small matter of actually getting to Heathrow, which is 2 bus rides away from where I live... hence the getting up at 4.45am. Moral of the story... don't have friends who live in Northampton.
what I learnt at the weekend...
What I learnt at the weekend was.... don't agree to do something before working out how you're going to do it. This less than profound thought came to me at 4.45am on Sunday morning, as my alarm went off and I got up contemplating the prospect of spending 8 hours on a coach travelling to and from Northampton. A few weeks ago I agreed to go to a friend's confirmation on Sunday morning. I've visited there before so I knew the train was fairly quick from London, and that you couldn't book tickets in advance. I therefore didn't check train times until Saturday, at which point I discovered that there were no trains between London and Northants on this particular Sunday. There was a replacement bus service but it didn't get in til 10.10 and the service was at 10.15. No problem, I thought, it's not that far away, I'll get a coach... and then found that coaches from Victoria don't start until 9am on Sundays, and it's a 2 hour journey. They'll let you travel from Northants to London early on the weekend, but not the other direction. Hmm... Next tactic was to see if I could travel from Oxford. Yes I could, but not before 9am... Finally I had the inspired thought that coaches run all night to airports, and checked Heathrow. A 7.10 bus would get me there on time, there was just the small matter of actually getting to Heathrow, which is 2 bus rides away from where I live... hence the getting up at 4.45am. Moral of the story... don't have friends who live in Northampton.
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