It's been a while and there's so many things I've been meaning to say here recently. But I'll start with a rant about public transport.

On Saturday I went up to London for the afternoon and evening to celebrate Hitchin Tom's birthday. We had a brief look around Camden Town Market and Stables and then went to the lovely drinking hole "The Purple Turtle". It was really nice to get away from revision, Uni and stress for a while.

But getting to London was a struggle. I wanted to catch the University bus service to the station to catch a 12:38 train to London. The U1 bus service left the end of our road at 03 and 33 minutes page and it was 5 past already, so that was out of the question.

So I checked on the First Southampton website for their 101 service. Apparantly it left at 17 minutes past from the same place. So I promptly left the house to wait for that. It didn't turn up. And apparantly, despite the timetable being available on the website the 101 service has been discontinued.

So I didn't panic, I thought I'd just wait for the 33 past U1. But it didn't turn up until 51 past. It was well over quarter of an hour late, which is appauling.

I then got to the train station and wanted to buy a travel card to London. I had forgotten my Young Persons Railcard, but it was out of date anyway. So I said I'd like to buy a new one, even saying "please". I had proof I was under 25, I had my card ready to pay the £20, but just because I hadn't got the photocard part of it, they wouldn't sell me a sodding annual update thing.

So I ended up paying £30 to get to London and back. The train then, due to Engineering works, was scheduled to take an extra half hour or so to get into London as it plodding along at what seemed walking pace. But, surprise surprise it was late into Waterloo.

I ended up saying "For Fuck Sake" in a poor cleaners direction when he reminded me that, after all the problems I'd had and despite paying through my teeth to the train companies, I still needed to pay 20p to use the toilet.

And the Government are trying to convince us that despite the convienience of a car, we should be using public transport more? Bah.