Spiderplantland

Thoughts and posterings from The Shire

Spiderplantland - Thoughts and posterings from The Shire

South West Trains and the Liberal Democrats

How on earth can she possibly link those two? I find half my readership asking themselves on this bloody freezing evening. Well its quite easy really.

This evening on my journey home, I managed to get a seat on the train, something that is usually greeted by my twitter feed with sentiment akin to my winning a gold medal at the Olympi games. It certainly feels like winning a prize given that the occurrence is somewhat rare. Tonight though, whilst sitting in my rare seat and getting all rowdy on Twitter (yes, I’ll get to that) something happened. A man went into the toilet opposite me and started violently throwing up. Not your usual upchucking after eating something bad, but something altogether more serious sounding. Continue reading

I agree with Bob Crow – What’s wrong with me?

Its no surprise to the people that follow me on Twitter that I am a grumbling fare paying passenger in this country’s shambolic transport system. Hardly a day goes by without my being late for work because the trains have failed in some way and it often feels like South West Trains and Network Rail, together are trying to get me fired from my job.

 

But I persevere like millions of other people because like them, I have no choice. I have to pay the exorbitant fares (and sit on the floor every day) because thats what I have to do to get to work. The argument that I should “get a job closer to home” or “move closer to work”misses the point entirely. For millions like me this is not an option. Continue reading