Frothers Travels

This train travel is tedious to the extreme that again I have no delays to harp on about,last night Midland Main Line and Central Trains ran on time and delivered me safely home on time.

This morning Central were 6 minutes late, again unusual for the 0704 to let me down, GNER ran a few minutes late , time was made up by Kings Cross due to the slack timings within the timetable.

Maybe I should be quiet as I have to get home yet, its a grey day here in the smoke, the rain has set in, I have no coat nevermind.

No startling musical comments today, listened to the Automatic playing live on Jo Whiley's new Wednesday night show, they are certainly a very good live band, have seen them twice this year to back that up, but whats this rap song sh1te that they insist on doing a Kanye West cover come on chaps snap out of it.

OH WELL A BORING DAY DESERVES A BORING BLOG, HAD TO USE MY WHEAT HEAT PAD A FEW TIMES TODAY AS MY DAMAGED SHOULDER AND SIDE HAVE PLAYED ME UP CHRONIC, STILL i GIVE A THUMBS UP TO THEM AS THE TREATMENT WORKS.

Even had a colleague(Ruth) saying she wanted to buy one as she is forever cold in the office and a similar one will keep her warm, (Bless)

Just realised left caps lock on silly me. Oh nearly forgot the lovely Polish girl in the caff at lunch time told me they had no cabbage to have with my roast beef etc but couldn't pronounce Broccoli which caused us both much merrirment as I thought she meant Brussels easy mistake I spose.

cheerybye

An uneventful journey home last night, GNER and Central both ran to time, I listened to the new Killers CD which is good but not as good as the excellent Hot Fuss,or the fuss generated by the music hacks it deserves
a 7 out of 10.

Coming in this morning an uneventful journey both trains on time, although when I arrived on my Central Diddly Doo from Oakham at 0735 the 0615 and 0710 to East Anglia occupied platform 5, seemingly delayed by a freight train failure East of Posh. Nice one if you wanted to get to Norwich for brekkie or Stansted for a flight?

Enjoyed the excellent Dirty Pretty Things album travelling up this morning, work was OK although a colleague has a dodgy knee and was subjected to some tests by the NHS before retiring home for a well earned lie down, sounds like it could have been worrying though with DVT mentioned and then discounted.

Tonight I am going to have a change of scenery and travel back Midland Main Line as the 1730 Cross to Edinburgh is shown as an HST in trust, might as well enjoy some MML thrash tonight, pity it stops at Bedford though, it will be wedged until then.

more to follow tomorrow, REM the IRS years are on the music box going home tonight what a classic CD a definite 9 out of 10.

Caught the 1900 home on Monday evening very quiet until two obnoxious Geordies got in and flouted the no mobile quiet coach rule in Coach B , still they soon fell asleep thankfully and that was that. Trains ran on time to Peterborough and my friend Central Trains got me home on time most surprisingly as well.

Tuesday morning was also incident free, Central and GNER ran to time and I traded insults with my friend from Network Rail who bailed out and went home to Retford last Thursday after the wires came down (again) when I persisted and won by arriving at work at 1140, he spent the day doing nothing, although the beer in the Crown whetted his whistle seemingly.
I think he was impressed with my journey and the double decker bus amused him greatly.

Interesting few days after Thursdays shenanigans

Thursday evening went to see OK GO, play a short set at HMV they turned up late having got lost coming down Oxford Street from the Astoria which is outside Tottenham Court Road tube station. Quite easy to get lost if you are a septic band I presume???

Anyway this put me on the 1930 which was half full and home ten minutes late as my friends at Central Trains like to regularly run late if at all this is not uncommon.

Friday was Larrikin Love day they are a good band who have an excellent future, thats twice I have seen them live this week. Got a bit sweaty though as the atmosphere was volcanic and the mosh frenetic.

Saturday saw me reunited with another group of friends and Pathfinder, a most interesting day was had albeit frustrating.

Sunday, where did the morning go, the afternoon saw my friends Central Trains run very overcrowded still two carriages on such a core route is no surprise, perhaps they could take out the seats and make the trains similar in design to a bendy bus they both run around full to capacity anyway.

Monday 2nd back to work, my 0704 from oakham was delayed 16 minutes due to a failed preceding train, I spoke to soon when I said it always runs on time!

Caught the 0804 from Peterborough which was Back to Front ie the loco leading and coach B next to the buffers on arrival at Kings Cross, this caught a lot of people out including the Train announcer at Peterborough who showed the train as being first class rear on the monitors and then proceded to announce it as being first class leading whoops did we larf when people realised and then did the dance of the wildebeast running around like headless chickens on the platform, my seat was comfortable thanks.