Brighton

Well no pictures on this post as I forgot to take some. I was intending on taking some of the pier this time but it didn't happen.

With all of the snow that we've had I was anticipating problems getting down to Brighton. The snow didn't pose me any problems although the trains did. Throughout the day I was checking on British Rail website on live departure board to keep an eye on my train as I had fears it would be cancelled. I left work 30 minutes before the train was due to depart and it still showed as running. I get to the train station 20 minutes later and lo and behold its on the board as cancelled. I go into the ticket office as I was pre-booked onto the train on a cheap ticket to see what my options are and discuss the matter. The lady behind the counter proceeds to tell me that it was a pre-planned cancellation and had been showing on the line's website for several days. I point out that this was not the case on the BR website. Fortunately I was able to get on the next train. I leave the ticket office and spot that it was already in so very promptly got on and found myself an unreserved seat as I had visions of an overcrowded train and having to stand the entire 2 1/2 hours to London!

The weather forecasts that were made also made it sound like I would have problems getting home. I did have a slight panic when I got on the train at London as ETA was 20 minutes after it was scheduled to arrive and 10 minutes after my last train was due to leave. We got back to Leeds on time and I caught my connection fortunately as it was the last train of the night.

The show at Brighton itself seemed to be busy although not as busy as it would have done if the weather had not interfered and I came back home without having made any purchases of yarn. That said I did purchase some truffles from Linden Lady which erm didn't make it out of Brighton ;-)