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Oct. 7th, 2007 10:20 pmUp first thing in the morning to head for London for Kirsty Day.
Thanks to engineering works on the Waterloo line I had to board a Victoria train. That wouldn't have mattered...until we were brought to an abrupt halt at Three Bridges. Some inconsiderate twazzuck had topped himself throwing himself in front of a train at the junction at Purley Oaks, meaning all the trains to London were buggered up and everybody going any further than Gatwick Airport was stranded on Three Bridges station indefinitely. None of the station staff had a clue when trains would be moving again - "could be an hour, could be even longer". There isn't an awful lot to do on Three Bridges station either. For an hour and a half I paced the place through the stranded hordes, looking for signs of action and, just twice, asking a staff member if there was any news yet, in between taking cover in a waiting room, contemplating the grim prospect of missing yet another Kirstyfest, visions of spending the whole day cooped up in that God-forsaken place (there were no trains back to Portsmouth moving either). Phoned Katherine, Ann and Rob just to hear friendly voices: all obliged me with brief chats - Rob asked if there were any eating facilities on the station, I replied "Not meals, just a kiosk dispensing little cakes and biscuits for £1.79"; Rob reckoned its proprietor must be rubbing his hands with glee - and all signed off with wishes that the trains would get moving soon.
Finally, at about 11.45 a train began moving towards London.
( Kirsty Day )
Home to discover that W4 are out of The X Factor ;( Simon picked the gimmick, Hope, over the better singers, W4. What respect I had left for Simon Cowell has evaporated. Worse, I heard one of Hope has been kicked out because it transpires she has a criminal record. Speaking entirely impartially, quite apart from the disruption to a group's chemistry, a group on The X Factor is a single entity, so if one member is ineligible the whole group should be hooked and replaced with one of the other groups. Well, I'm spared the expenditure of voting...
Thanks to engineering works on the Waterloo line I had to board a Victoria train. That wouldn't have mattered...until we were brought to an abrupt halt at Three Bridges. Some inconsiderate twazzuck had topped himself throwing himself in front of a train at the junction at Purley Oaks, meaning all the trains to London were buggered up and everybody going any further than Gatwick Airport was stranded on Three Bridges station indefinitely. None of the station staff had a clue when trains would be moving again - "could be an hour, could be even longer". There isn't an awful lot to do on Three Bridges station either. For an hour and a half I paced the place through the stranded hordes, looking for signs of action and, just twice, asking a staff member if there was any news yet, in between taking cover in a waiting room, contemplating the grim prospect of missing yet another Kirstyfest, visions of spending the whole day cooped up in that God-forsaken place (there were no trains back to Portsmouth moving either). Phoned Katherine, Ann and Rob just to hear friendly voices: all obliged me with brief chats - Rob asked if there were any eating facilities on the station, I replied "Not meals, just a kiosk dispensing little cakes and biscuits for £1.79"; Rob reckoned its proprietor must be rubbing his hands with glee - and all signed off with wishes that the trains would get moving soon.
Finally, at about 11.45 a train began moving towards London.
( Kirsty Day )
Home to discover that W4 are out of The X Factor ;( Simon picked the gimmick, Hope, over the better singers, W4. What respect I had left for Simon Cowell has evaporated. Worse, I heard one of Hope has been kicked out because it transpires she has a criminal record. Speaking entirely impartially, quite apart from the disruption to a group's chemistry, a group on The X Factor is a single entity, so if one member is ineligible the whole group should be hooked and replaced with one of the other groups. Well, I'm spared the expenditure of voting...
