Home again, home again, clippetty clop

[bugshaw]

Have just been visiting with hawkida and tobesv - ate food, played Scrabble (at which hawkida is a complete fiend) and started to learn Magic - the Gathering. Got given spare cross-stitch stuff, a biiig castle/dragon picture (half completed - I'll try to rescue it) and a keyring with stitched cottage design. While on train platform it occurred to me that I could create my own design out of my imagination and stitch that instead for the keyring, and it could be a potato and I could send it to Ang and get never spoken to again...

I spent a long time on that train platform. The train was due at 22:17, but was delayed. Until 23:14. Then 23:23, then 23:50. At midnight they got a cab for the four waiting passengers (3 for Whittlesea and me for Cambridge - it was a tight squeeze in the back seat), and I got home at 01:20. Gah. If it weren't for the fact that I have a house-mending chap coming 8-9am Tuesday morning, I'd've gone back to the office Chez Tobes-Hawkes.

Yawn.

Comments

[hnpcc]

it could be a potato and I could send it to Ang and get never spoken to again...

Heh. G'waan. Dare ya. ;-)

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

Oy you!

Bug is no good as a secret potato sender. She cracks too easily under pressure.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

... like a Desiree in a microwave...

Potato???

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

Is one permitted to inquire into the mystic significance?

[headgardener.livejournal.com]

The joys of Peterborough station... was the buffet still open to sit in and get a cuppa at that hour?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Closes at 8pm, as I discovered when working late one night and assuming I could still pick up a sandwich at that hour. I'm just glad the toilets were still open.

But it was a pleasant night to be sitting outside in the peace and quiet (what with there being no trains).

Buffet Alternative

[rhubarbfool.livejournal.com]

The hotel opposite the station has a nice bar that I've frequented occasionally, it's a bit of a shame that to actually get into Peterborough from the station is a pretty nasty trek.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Gah from here too! Add another factor to the List Of Bad Things About Me Working Away During The Week: not being around to rescue you when WAGN goes up the spout...

Lots of love,

MC

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ni! Nice rescue-y Clanger. XXX (And it was Central Trains BTW) Nice.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Bloody trains... As I said when it was only 57 minutes late. Damn, could have taught you *much* more MTG if you hadn't had to rush off.

Dragon is a long way off "half completed", I think. If you rescue it I will be very impressed. Using the thread elsewhere is probably a better bet.

"visiting with" Is that an Americanism? We didn't do any visiting, we got visited.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Damn, could have taught you *much* more MTG if you hadn't had to rush off.

And then hustled like mad with your "special" deck. Oh yes, I've heard about you. [is suspicious]

If you rescue it [dragon embroidery] I will be very impressed.

Bridget the Dragon Slayer Rescuer! But you still won't want it in your house, will you? Oh well, I can always add some potatoes and send it to Ang anonymously, she'll like that...

"visiting with" Is that an Americanism? We didn't do any visiting, we got visited.

Well, I was visiting, and I was with you, so... -darn these culturally-distinct colloquialisms! B-

God, I'm tired.