Friday, October 29, 2004

Southern Cross

Friday morning, the Southern Railways management were in situ Victoria Station.

I should have stopped for a chat.

Wednesday and Thursday this week I've been subjected to 30 minute waits at Balham on the way home. What should be an hour journey home has taken up to 2 hours on two occasions.

Add to that, the shiny new renovated trains on the line are already vandalised and one ran on Friday with a defective door.

posted by pete at 9:21 PM

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

8:40 am, Victoria Embankment Gardens

Old John Fahey
Plucking his last notes
In my ears.

Raincoat, glasses man
Pixellating image of
The steel and glass wheel.

White knees,
Shiny black boots:
Young woman sits,
Fingers tapping out txt msg.

Tall raggedy guy,
Barefoot,
Unkepmt blond hair,
Long beard,
Blond jumper, blond
Yellow tracksuit bottoms:
Filthy.

posted by pete at 8:45 AM

Monday, October 25, 2004

Time to Re-vitalise Commuterland

There's anew e-mail address for Commuterland:
iamad0nut-commuterland [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

Take out the [at], replace with @
Take out the [dot]s, replace with .

Please join in. The purpose of this blog is simple. One or two lines avery now and then about your journey to work, school, college or wherever. Any contributions is worthwhile. Write a poem, tell us about the view from the bus window, blog train performance, rant against grafitti.

Thanks for your time and (hopefully) participation.

posted by pete at 9:08 PM

Friday, October 22, 2004

Observations on the Underground*

Big Ugli boots:
to keep warm or fashion statement?
Big ugly bloke:
but I’m sure he’s kind and considerate (bad skin and all).
Big dope wrong-waying up an exit:
rush or no rush, just dumb.

* - should that be "in the Underground"?

posted by pete at 1:30 PM

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Return Journey

Even with a slow tube journey, a late running train and having to run for the bus it was a good journey home yesterday. Made it in under an hour.

What a nice Monday.

posted by pete at 7:51 PM

Monday, October 18, 2004

AN UNUSUAL MONDAY MORNING

Unusual not only because of a post on the Commuterland blog, but also because the trains ran on time. By "on time", I don't mean within 5 minutes of the scheduled arrival time. The 0759 turned up (and departed at 0759). It was so "on time", that we were delayed at Streatham Hill so that the train could depart "on time" (as opposed to early).

Even our driver was taken aback. On arrival at Victoria, he announced that this was an "on time" arrival. A rare event indeed.

Almost as rare as a Commuterland posting!

posted by pete at 1:19 PM