Room 101

Well, I have spent a total of 6 hours on the train this weekend...what a nightmare. I'm all for people using public transport, its environmentally friendly but not with the state of the English railway system. It started on friday when I missed my connection in newport, a place you wouldn't want to be un-connected. I've just got back from visiting my very pregnant friends in Berriew, Mid Wales and had to stand up for an hour of my 3 hours journey back.

What a boring blog. No fear, I have a point :) To cheer this blog I will put in some autumny piccies I took today.

I was so bored on my ridiculous train journey's, so I thought that I would start a room 101 list and here it is -

• Trains - especially when you miss connections becuase they give you just 3 minutes to catch you other train
• Trains again - this time is train toilets, especially as I always go when we change tracks so its a bit like a pinball machine
• Trains again - the lying signs that tell you that you have 10 mins to wait, it gets down to 1 minute and then goes up to 10 minutes again. This happened 3 times today, its train sign teasing
• Trains again - The very expensive buffet trolleys. By the way, I was cramped into the vestibule with the buffet man for an hour. On average he takes £350 for a 3 carriage train, it costs £2.50 for a stella, 20p cheaper for a Carling, 70p for peanuts, 65p for shortbread, £1.25 for hot choc. They give you a ridiculous plastic cup and ice when you have a can of pop and I can inform you that Arriva trains stock cheese and tomato, ham and mustard, tuna and cucumber, tuna and sweetcorn, egg mayo, chicken mayo and egg and bacon sandwiches...I listened to him say this again and again and again and again while in our cramped vestibule with a family that couldn't have washed for months.
• Snogging in public. This also relates to a train journey. On the way to Shrewsbury I was unfortunate to have a view of a older couple sogging the whole way there.
• Pointless things. Ear wax, spit, dyrzzle, ironing, BO, tofu
  
• Bad tastes in fashion. Ski pants, high waisted jeans on men
  
• The smell of adolescent boys. We should have comulsory distribution of deodorant
• Acronyms. A colleague expected me to know what LBD was the other day. First thing that came to my mind was the LGB club at uni. I've later found out what LBD and it has nothing to do with LGB and I'm not saying what it is just in case there are others that don't know
• Bad Food. Muschrooms, Offal, profiteroles, eclairs, doughnuts
• Men that cross their legs. Just wrong
  
• Ridiculous junctions. Like Bedminster roundabout and the Almondsbury interchange. Completely lacks common sense.
• Car drivers. That sit in yellow boxes and overtake me, the speed limit is there for a reason
• Stupid signs. I had a bag of nuts that contained the sign may contain nuts'
• Timetables. Especially the ones at train stations. Nobody reads them and goes online or phones national rail enquiries anyway
• Pull along suitcases. I actually own two, but they are a hazard at railway stations when you are in a hurry.
• Toe nails. What purposes do they have? They are such high maintainance
• Children with snot. When children have tram tracks down their nose and the parents doesn't wipe it away
• Fireworks. For the simple reason that they scare animals.
  
• Green clothes. I don't know anybody who can wear green, it should be a banned colour in clothing
• Shoes that hurt. I'm at the age where comfy shoes are priority and shoes that hurt are something I did at uni.
• Health and Safety. Only ridiculous health and safety rules, e.g. I have to wear a hard hat when i go unde rmy desk becuase i hit my head once.
  
• Ugly babies. The fact that you have to say 'oh what a cute baby' when its obviously very ugly
• Films with zombies or spirits. Just cos they scare me
• Non conversationists. Nothing worse
• Food poisoning. Recent hatred
• Lillies. They smell horrid
• Gorse. I fell in some in the summer after Miss V and I walked through it and tore our legs to shreds.
• The eternal taste of garlic and onion. Not the things themselves, just the after effects.
• Papercuts. Hurt like hell
• Mosquito's. Every single damn one.
  

This will be continued :)

By the way, this weekend we went to Much Wenlock. A quaint little town, black and white buildings and a curious cctv system in operation in the town square which is big ennough to fit one car in. Wonder what goes on there....

Favourite Season?

So, what is your favourite season? I've been thinking long and hard about this and a friend came up with a great suggestion...the start of every season is the best. I kind of agree with this. I love the start of spring after the harshness of winter, I love the start of summer when you don't have to wear your coat outdoors, i love the autumn when the leaves are just about to change colour and you have to wear a thin jacket and I love autumn when you see your warm breath in the cold air.

I wouldn't say that I'm a lover of summer at all and have never understood why people go on holiday in the summer time. Its the one time of the year when the English weather is bearable and what do the majority of the population do...go abroad. I love to leave England on a cold morning in January or February to jet off to a warm climate.

So, the reason I'm writing is to share some pics of this wonderful autumn we are experiencing. A friend and I went on a very civilised walk to Blaise Castle in Bristol. Here are the pics, hope you like them. We had a great day.