19.48, Friday 9 Feb 2001

Here's a new word for you: If your train mysteriously fills with smoke, if you sit for ages waiting, if then the only way to get home is another train (already full, naturally) that is helpfully stopping at this station in the middle of nowhere but meanwhile you have to stand in the cold waiting; if all of this is happening on a Friday night and the train guard has to announce this, it can all be summed up into "We're going to detrain you".

So I've learned something new, but that still doen't make my fingers any warmer.