London Day 3 of 3 - A Senior Moment

Up early again, at 6.30am, after the best night’s sleep for a while despite the pint last last night. The wi fi is working, though the signal is poor and I still can’t post this blog. I speak too soon as now the signals gone completely.. Shower and leave for work just before 8.00am. I won't worry the PO this morning but will have a pastry when I arrive despite my cholesterol levels (I must blog about that). The trip on the tube takes 30 minutes and as I'm early it's not too crowded. One of my delegates is having a lie in and driving to the venue but he really hates his 40 minute daily journey by tube into the city to Bank. I can't say I blame him. If I was living here I'd cycle. He's early but his colleague is late, again.

Make a note to create a separate blog with technical stuff for delegates only to see. I can't write how the training's going here in case they look! I was surprised at how many page views I have of this blog until I reliase that most of them are me as I view the page as I write it in order to make corrections. So, I'm not that popular then.

The day passes swiftly (they are flagging as it's the last day),we lunch at the Italian and finish around 4.00pm. Good evaluations, which is a bonus. Also a good day for more work with jobs in Oxford, Liverpool and Saudi Arabia in the offing. I then accidentally discover that Oracle have released 11g Express Edition. Nice.

Uneventful trip on the 263 to M&S in Holloway but disappointed. I always expect M&S to have an upstairs but this one is very small, all on the ground floor and I can't even find a sandwich for the train journey. Back to the hotel at KX to collect my luggage. I use the internet for an hour while I wait for the 7.00pm train (one problem with having a cheap ticket). Blow me, the connection is now working better than it has all week.

Join the train at 6.45pm. I walk past first class, there's only ONE passenger (no surprise at £326 a ticket) and on to Coach B. I'm in no hurry as I have a seat booked  I have tea and a sandwich and eat my second Bounty bar (two for a £1 in Smith's, naughty but nice) then settle down with BBC Radio 4 Extra, Hancock, and Radio 5, Chelsea vs Manchester United. The signal is holding up well so far. 

There's more free wi fi to look forward to while I wait in York for my last but one leg, the train to Micklefield, where Jennie will collect me at around 9.40pm and I'll be home in time for the football highlights.

Oops, have a senior moment; so engrossed in the web, a software update and the football on the radio that I don't notice as we stop and leave my station York! Oh well, change at Darlington, the 9.58pm back and then a taxi home.