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My journey home, Facebook style

Posted on Monday, September 3rd, 2007 at 9:24pm. #


Graffiti on Longfellow Bridge, Boston MA. Photo by Frank Hebbert. Used under licence.

Presenting my journey home this evening, as it would have been if I was on Facebook, thanks to today’s tube strike. (Keen readers aware of my home location will question my need to avoid taking a tube, but I reckoned it might be a bit busy, and apparently I was right - not least because of a signal faliure)

James is leaving work on a bike
James is quite enjoying riding his bike
James is cycling past Western House, home of BBC Radio 2
James is inexplicably and totally unnecessarily on the Euston Road on his bike
James is getting a bit scared on his bike by the buses
James is walking on the pavement with his bike
James is pushing his bike through Kings Cross station
James is amazed how busy it is in Kings Cross station
James is folding his bike
James is waiting on a train which isn’t going anywhere
James is still waiting on a train
James is getting more and more crowded by people on a train
James is on a train that is moving at long last
James is getting off a train to get another one
James is waiting for people to get off this train I’m catching
James is still waiting for people to get off this train I’m catching
James is cramming onto a train
James is on a train
James is on a train, leaning on a door, without much space
James is on a train that is stopping seemingly less than a minute after getting going
James is having to get off a train to let other people off before getting back on again
James is back on the train
James is on a train wondering where he is
James is opening the door for other people because he’s closest to the door controls
James is slightly amazed that the door controls work on trains, because they don’t on tubes
James is on a train wondering which stop to get off on, whether it’s this one or the next one
James is on a train and has decided he’ll get off the early one with less of a hill to cope with
James is getting off a train
James is walking up the stairs holding a bike
James is watching his arm grow longer
James is unfolding his bike
James is cycling up a hill
James is finding cycling up a hill quite hard work
James is still cycling up a hill
James is navigating a rather nasty right-hand turn
James is still bloody cycling up a hill
James is wishing he got off on the next stop
James is on a busy road
James is cycling past a bus
James is blimey that car was close
James is in the middle of the road oooer
James is thank heavens not cycling up a hill any more
James is home
James is knackered
James is drinking beer

Only three more days.

5 comments

Nick Piggott said at September 3rd, 2007 at 10:57pm

Don’t they have buses in London? I’m rather hoping my journey in tomorrow will be:
Nick is having a bacon roll on a fast(ish) train to London
Nick is walking to the Edgware Road
Nick is on an No.6 bus
Nick is walking to Leicester Square
But then I was born a dreamer….

Martin said at September 3rd, 2007 at 11:26pm

Martin is working from home tomorrow.

Adam Bowie said at September 3rd, 2007 at 11:26pm

Just think how fit you’ll be by Thursday!

Incidentally, you should just have stayed in central London a little longer. I went to see a film (not something you’d do, I know) and by the time I left to go home - around nine - the Piccadilly Line was running fine, and there was plenty of room on the train.

Someone just cancelled lunch with me tomorrow because they didn’t think they’d be in at all. I’d like to know which bit of London they live in which isn’t served with either trains, buses or one of the three unaffected tube lines.

Martin said at September 4th, 2007 at 12:09am

I also had a pretty easy journey home from town - a 15 minute walk down to Piccadilly Circus, and the tube was fine from there. But a friend took nearly two hours to get from White City to Finsbury Park: she walked down to Hammersmith, and arrived there to find the station closed. (TfL’s website said nothing when she left work, though according to someone on uk.transport.london they’d been running down services for two hours or so)

I don’t have any particular need to be in the office tomorrow, and rather a lot of admin to do. And I figure I may as well take advantage of the fact that I’m working in a non-operational area while I still can.

coldclimate said at September 4th, 2007 at 1:45pm

Coldclimate is getting up at 8:30
Coldclimate is showering
Coldclimate is dressing
Coldclimate is leaving the house
Coldclimate is walking 3 minutes down the road, including across a dodgy junction
Coldclimate is at work
Coldclimate is glad he doesn’t work in London

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