Aaaaaaaanother gorgeous morning in the shire to be sure to be sure, aaanother gorgeous morning in the shire. There ya go I’ve started writing a song. Easy really. Dunno what all the fuss is about. Dum dum dum de dum.
On the news this morning was a report that the bastards have put the price of railcards up. Mine has run out and I toyed with renewing it last week but firstly my logon didn’t work and the reset email didn’t come through. I had to set up a new account. In any case they wanted to renew the railcard from the expiry date and I won’t be using it until the end of March when I go to London for the Gamma shindig @Mike @andy @lee so I guess it didn’t matter that I now have a new account as I’ll be able to renew it at a time of my choosing. Albeit at the higher price and with the faff of having to redo the photo and proof of age stuff.
It’s gone up from £70 to £80 for three years or £30 to £35 for a single year. I am confidently going for the longer validity job and am fairly sure I have enough money in my Post Office savings account to cover the increase. Jokes. Mind you a tenner is a lot of dosh for some people although that is unlikely to apply for people planning train journeys.
You can get really cheap train tickets if you drill into the booking system. When our Hannah was en route home from Paris on the university year abroad the Eurostar was cancelled because of high winds. Nae bother they said. We’ll stick you on one the next day at no charge, natch.
The issue was the ticket from Kings Cross to Lincoln which she had purchased way in advance. She couldn’t figure out how to change it and there was no freebie the next day because the LNER trains, or whatever they were called in those days, had not been cancelled.
I did the right thing and called the train company to sort it out. They said they didn’t really consider anything if the ticket had cost under £10. Hannah’s was £6. London to Lincoln. 2 hours. The problem was there were no cheap tickets left for booking the next day. First world student problems.
Can’t imagine you would get that fare for six quid nowadays and certainly not in first class. The free gin is worth more than that.
Back in real time THG has cooked me an excellent full English. She was opening a tin of beans anyway and I figured what the hey, it’s a Sunday. Had cawfee instead of the usual char and am now sat in the snug tapping away.
There is a downside to being sat here in that the wireless is shortly about to go on. Sunday morning politics. Completely missed the morning service so I can’t advise on its listenability. Did nod off after the Shipping Forecast though and can confirm there is a high over the country, or similar. Most winds down to force 2 or 3 with a few exceptions that include Rockall which as usual is being battered by gales. Who’d want to live on Rockall? Well nobody does actually 🙂
The high pressure has manifested itself in another glorious morning out there as stated and I feel confident that the bus stop will be an achievable target for my walk. After I’ve done me exercises.
Feel very much constrained still by the need to keep 50% of the weight off my right leg. Limits my range and activity levels big time. The big day is a week on Tuesday, the 4 weekyversary of the op which as you know I’m counting down to. In the meantime it’s the laptop in front of the TV in the snug. I don’t switch the telly on until knocking on five pm although the occasional Dad’s Army has been known to slip through the picket lines. Unless there is sport on which I deem acceptable even though I would not normally have any interest in the teams playing.
There is darts but I can’t get excited about that without the Davies lads being around to watch at the same time. Luke the Nuke.
Gorra go.