Good journey home on the 17.20 last night and an equally enjoyable journey on the 07.20 this morning too. So apart from the shock news about the increase to parking fee's, GNER seemed to have got off to a reasonable start this week.

WRONG.

I arrived at the office eager to see if they had replied to yesterdays e-mail. Guess what? You already know they haven't.

On the way home I got the usual 17.20 to find they were using what has to be the oldest, tattiest coches still in service, some fat blond dolly bird sat in my seat just so she could sit opposite an equally fat and ugly brunette dolly birdshe obviously thought of as a mate. All this on a train whose air con system was so old it had obviously given up trying to cope with the heat and to top it all off, it broke down just as I'd got myself settled and was about to open a nice cold can of Kieth Della (Stella for those that can't work that one out). Fucking marvelous. 2nd day back and looks like I'll be late.

So off I hopped over to platform 1 to minimise the delay and sit in the nice, plush, refurbshed, air conditioned Malard carraige of the 17.30. I'm glad I did mind cos I'd left me book in the office, didn't fancy working too much cos it was so hot and bumped into a mate who had a few mags worth glancing through (OK Heat was one but I skipped all the ladies pages honest) and had a bit of a chin wag. Which was nice.

Even so, the fact is the train broke down, there was no air con and a shed load of people and I were inconvenienced again.

Lets see if I get a reply tomorrow? What do you think?