Joy – my weekend for a Saturday shift.

Not a good day for travelling on the trains.

This morning, with no announcement to the effect, the train was half an hour late (probably consequently turning into the train that was due the half-hour after during the journey). I was late to work.
I left work late as my excellent computer decided to delay its clock by quarter of an hour during the day, at some point. I set off for the train station in the full knowledge I would miss the train I was going for. So, I go to the platform where the net train is due, get on & it leaves suspiciously early. Turn out not to be my train at all, but one going on a local loop. It ends up at Rochdale, but not before the one I would have caught has since passed through. Only By a matter of minutes, suggests the timetable. I suspect that the train I was incorrectly on departed late, so I wonder if it was on time, whether I would have caught my proper connection.

So – here I am typing on a coach, as the next train – unannounced like, did not turn up, but waiting on the platform when I noticed a rail replacement train pull up to the station; went to investigate & found that a coach for Todmordem was not long due behind that one… Oh, replacement coach – so that looks like a planned rail replacement (with no announcement).
Joy
I am now startlingly late. I hope Jack does is not attempting to stay awake as he will be irritable & delirious by now…. sigh.
I should have been home an hour ago by now & I still have a way to go.

Coach is slow. It makes me ill.