Snow joke....

....this weather. On the train to London for an important meeting tomorrow. It was a toss of the coin about which mode of travel would be least painful; snowbound trains or closed airports? In the end, I went for a train and I'm currently speeding (ahem) to London on the train. Hopefully this is my last overnight trip to London this side of Christmas.

Had a nice lunch with some creative blippers earlier in the day.

It looks freezing out there now and I'm quite glad of this warm mug of coffee and slice of fruit cake.

Edit @ 19:45
Would passengers in the 30 strong middle-aged tourist party from Bejing please note that any or all of the following behaviours are actively encouraged:

1) Hocking up a green-one and gobbing on the carpet (really)
2) Forming a card school, blocking the corridor and play five card stud for £100 notes
3) Argue loudly and frequently about the cards and wake-up the sleeping baby in your own party, who has cried for most of the journey and only dosed off in the last 45mins.
4) Look sullen every time the train staff ask you to sit down, and then immediately stand up again
5) Stand next to a passenger whilst watching the cards and jangle your keys loudly in his ear until he feels like sticking them up your arse
6) Smoke in the toilet
7) Shout loudly down your mobile phone and walk up and down the aisle so that we may all enjoy the call.
8) Tap a spoon loudly against a glass and shout excitedly at your favourite card player
9) Generally show no concern or regard for your fellow passengers making life fecking miserable for them
10)...I could go on.

I yearn for easier train journeys of yore tonight; like the time 50 pissed-up Scottish squaddies from Catterick Garrion were released after 6 weeks basic training and got on the quiet coach at Doncaster with several crates of beer and Buckfast, or the time a coach load of pissed-up Sunderland supporters took over a coach on the way north to Newcastle for a derby game.....etc.

'struth....