6th April 2011

Whilst my parents have been travelling the world they've sent us lots of postcards, unfortunately though the ones from New Zealand seem to have taken ages to arrive. Looking at this article from the paper this morning it seems like the problem may have been that they just used our address rather than actually describing where we live - amazingly it only took 4 days for this postcard to reach Norfolk from the Canary Islands! Generally I think I'm lucky if a letter reaches Dorset from London in the same time...

17th January 2011

Miserable journey home this evening - the train was running slow anyway as there was congestion around Lewisham and then when we got to Grove Park the driver announced that there was no power on our train. After investigation he decided it couldn't be fixed and so we were all thrown off the train and left to wait for another train to arrive. Eventually, after not being able to squeeze on the first train that arrived, I got home nearly two hours after leaving the office - normally it takes about an hour!