The 7.03 is cancelled!

The 7.03 has been cancelled!  This announcement from across the landing sends our early morning household into a frenzy. 

I take up command and control position with ipad linked up to the live train information, whilst quickly giving my soaking hair a fierce blast with hairdryer before jumping into last night’s clothes.  Mornings like these normally result in the need for Mum’s taxi to fill the gap and run an emergency mission to a nearby station to pick up a more direct train.

As expected, last night’s Baltic weather conditions which resulted in people stranded on a main road outside Brighton for up to 10 hours overnight,  have now caused train delays and disruption.

My overwhelming good nature and kind heart  led me to drop the Chief and Major Darling at a station further up the line, then on my way back a frantic call from Mini Darling left me no alternative than to agree to drive her all the way to her meeting after she had waited on the platform for 25 minutes for a train which suddenly disappeared off the departures board.

A quick view of Google maps gave me a vague idea of where I was going and fortunately the signposts were fairly consistent, so we reached out destination without too much of a flap!

Mid morning, I arrived home to a cold cup of coffee and soggy Weetabix sitting on the kitchen table, two frantic cats thinking I had left for the day without providing breakfast.  Worse still, I had made the journey without having cleaned my teeth!

Now I am fed, with teeth brushed and clean clothes I can face the day and ponder on this crazy climate we have.  Bitterly cold gale force winds have been howling for the last two days bringing in bullets of snow.  It was only a week ago when we sat outside for a quick coffee, the chubby little bees were busy around the brilliant crocus flowers and found I had a V of sunburn on my chest!