Bonus travel update

Sevenoaks turned into some sort of no go area yesterday, no trains allowed to pass through it at all, this caused carnage on the network from teh afternoon onward. Some people were held up for hours, I was only half an hour late home, but still not that much fun.
9/10 of our trains into London in the morning are delayed too. Off to check out the charter, see if I'm due any money back. I think it's automated if you have an annual ticket, but we might not be entitled, buying weekly tickets.

Ah:

If you hold a seven-day Season Ticket, the compensation described above will be paid based on the cost of the full single standard fare applicable (for the relevant class of travel) for the journey made.

2006 :: Comment / reply

Free bonus bit of decoration

Got decorators in right now, finally getting our earthquake damage done, and they've done a nice job so far. They just came back for a couple of hours finishing off today, and one of them confessed that he'd broken one of our pictures. "No problem, which one?", I says, then AAARGH NO! That's not a picture, that's my original Revolver and you've put your foot through it! They took all our framed recordsd off the wall to paint, guess I should have put them away safely somewhere...

As it turns out only the glass in the frame is broken, no harm done. I did pay them back by getting them to have another look at a corner in the bathroom where it looks like the paint has run, and that turned out to be because of the condensation, and they might have to do the whole lot again. Maybe it's karma.

Other than the little scare over the record, they've been great, starting early and being all gone by the time I get in. They're English too which surprised me, I thought it was the law that all builders (all good builders) were Polish these days? I would recommend them (if I knew who they were and that) and would call them again if I had other work to do.

Thanks for the wine feedback everyone, looks like we probably won't be trying one until after christmas now because we're going to do a cheeky booze run before then, I will try and pick up some more interesting bottles then.

Work xmas lunch Friday, very nice. More to post later from the weekend, will try and sort out the pictures from it.

2007 :: Comment / reply

Bonus day!

Hmm, not a bonus earning type of day, but rather an extra day to the weekend... worked out that if we stay over in Folkestone on Sunday night too, I can still get up at normal time in the morning, use my return train ticket without paying any excess, and only be half hour late for work... so that's what we did, and that's what I want to do every week from now on...

Had an ace weekend, quite full of things, so will have some restaurant reviews to add, went to La Bamba, The Fountain, Wards, Marlowe's, The Office, Chambers, and the New Delhi, in that order.

Went down on the Saturday morning, as we'd seen the Pixies again Friday night, ace again even though we were stuck upstairs. Can't think of many other bands I'd go upstairs again for though. Met up with Mum and Dad in Folkestone, and they'd brought us loads of ace home gifts from Dualit. We tried to get into Paul's for dinner, no joy but La Bamba was very good. Walked part of the way home, had one in The Fountain and then popped into Wards at last, and it was better than expected, fine for a hotel bar anyway and nice and close to home.

Sunday we mostly shopped, unsuccessfully, in Canterbury. Had lunch in a tourist trap type place, and it was good! Also checked out a potential wedding venue, The Imperial in Hythe. A lovely weekend all told, wasn't looking forward to the trip back to and across London, so when we found out there were engineering works, we hatched our plan... dumped the bags and started off our bonus night by heading straight to Chambers. We were joking on the way there about what we would do if it closed, could we still live in Folkestone..? Got there to find it closed! Panic! Luckily bumped into someone who works there who said the quiz was definitely on at 8, so we took a wander along The Leas, and discovered The Office, a new bar that might be where Bottoms was. Couple of pints there, then back to the quiz, didn't do too badly, a long way short of Clare's friends who won though. Then half price curry at the New Delhi to finish off... was NICE waking up in Folkestone today, and the train in was a new one, so got a table and sat and read and breakfasted in comfort, I reckon I could do it every day...

2004 :: Comment / reply