Well I've just stood in the pissing rain at the barriers at Portslade Station - typically they were down to let TWO trains go through. I'm now drinking heavily in the Railway watching Plucky, and it's trains CENTRAL.
Strike ? What strike ?
Still, it's f*cked everyones plans up, which is the...
That sounds about right.
If I'm walking all the way from home in Portslade, it takes an hour along the seafront to reach the Palace Pier, and then about another hour from there up Lewes Road to the Amex. I usually factor in about 2 1/4 hours, but longer if I'm getting SPANNERED along the way of...
This of course assumes you can get any kind of mobile reception around the vicinity of Falmer station - of which I have zero.
I also bailed on the train queue as soon as I heard about the trespassing nimrods. Having not anticipated this, and not knowing that there was an entire fleet of empty...
All well and good, but a bus - there and back - takes an ALMIGHTY chunk out of the day. It takes long enough to get there just from the Steine on a bus, let alone from Portslade. And with the trains out of action for WHU, that sounds like a whole lot more fun dunnit. I just cannot be arsed with...
I'm still mildly traumatised from the post-match transport SHITSHOW on Saturday (unexpected 4.5 mile walk), so the thought of another battle to the Amex and back when the trains are up the Khyber again is not overly appealing. I'm away for Newcastle anyway, but a barstool for WHU is looking...