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Have donned my headphones to shut out the sound of the guy behind me telling a colleague he will have to prepare his presentation tomorrow as otherwise he won’t have any time before Monday. He doesn’t know when he is “on”. He is wearing ear buds and so speaking more loudly than he would otherwise be doing when just using the phone. Just prior to this I was just thinking to myself how train travel still retains an element of the romance of the days of old when steam engines would chuff chuff out of the station on their long haul north. Modern day travel is far more comfortable.

This train is quite full because of an East Midlands Railway cancellation out of St Pancras. I, however, am comfortable enough in my usual seat number E5 with no one else on the table. May this sitch continue. Long live the table for one.

I have boarded an earlier train than planned (19:47) and will get home at a sensible 16;35. The onboard wifi is gerfunkt, if that is a word, it is now, so I’m hitching an internet ride on my dog and bone. Mick mack paddy whack catch a world wide wave, Dave.

40 minutes later, during a pause in the music, I note the corporate guy is still talking away in his corporate language. Perhaps he is running things up the flagpole 🙂 I am feeling quite mellow, sipping away as I am, at a gin et tonique, slimeline.

Ahah! The noisy guy is getting off at Grantham, yay. May he drown in the memory of Margaret Thatcher, Mrs.  Grantham is a somewhat nondescript place. This is a direct train to Lincoln, meaning I don’t have to change. Often there are only a few of us left by the time we leave Newark, the penultimate stop. That can generate a degree of camaraderie amongst those who remain. The survivors. My mellowness is growing. The very nice member of staff has dropped off a second gin.

Lots of folk running on the platform in Grantham. I suspect they are East Midlands Railway passengers rushing to make a connection that might well have been held for them. The Wickes car park in Grantham is quite empty. Funny what catches your eye. 16:01. Obvs not a busy time for the diy trade.

THG picked me up at 16:35 fair play. I made her wait 60 seconds whilst I videoed a goods train coming through the stayshun. What’s not to like?