It's actually been a pretty good week all round. The supervisor I've had for most of the time has been really friendly, nice and supportive, and the other CSA I can get along with, though I'm never quite how much of his teasing he actually means... It's the same sort of humour I usually deal in, however. Despite being at a fairly quiet station, we've had a few fun moments - things like the ticket machines going out and service disruptions. Yesterday, for instance, there was a problem at Green Park that resulted in a lot of disruption, and today there was a one-under at Wood Green, a few stops down the line, that meant chaos from 2pm until after I went home. We had a few incidences earlier in the week of lost property, including someone at Wood Green who'd left.. a loaf of bread. We searched two trains and then a customer handed it in. Someone also left their handbag on the train and we had to send her up to Cockfosters to collect it after they'd gone and hunted all the trains for it.

Today I had a visit to Earl's Court control room, which was good fun, though made extra special by the driver who kindly let me in the cab for most of the journey, and was really chatty and happy to explain all sorts of things about how the train worked and the signalling and the speed restrictions, and pointed out the sites of the disused stations and such. We were there a while after the Central Line incident happened and there was a lot of gossip and speculation flying round about that, obviously.

Yesterday the afternoon supervisor was late and the morning supervisor couldn't stay - because the station I was at was above ground and is very small, I was drafted into the control room to take messages and, if anything went wrong, get assistance from the neighbouring stations. So I got to experience life from the supervisor's office, which was fun.

On Tuesday we had a failure of the OPO equipment - the monitors and mirrors that a driver uses to check whether the doors are clear before shutting them - so I was stationed down on the platform acting as the driver's eyes. However we then had to man the *other* platform due to sunlight affecting the OPO equipment that side, so we had an amusing half hour of it before the sun deigned to go back in and it started pouring buckets instead. Not long after that the engineer turned up for the monitors, so it wasn't too bad. We had to man the platform for about two hours and 15 minutes, I think.