Busy weekend, but also rather fun - we had another Wood Green to Cockfosters shut down. The worst part was trying to get home, it took me an hour and a half on Sunday and Monday from Turnpike Lane, whereas normally I'd expect about 30 to 40 minutes from there. To make things even more exciting there was a signal failure at Turnpike on Saturday, and a shutdown from Hammersmith to Wood Green (later dropped to Hammersmith to Kings Cross, but the shuttle service from Wood Green to Kings Cross was virtually useless - at one point between Finsbury and Manor House there were three trains in the tunnel, and it took 20 minutes to turn one train at Kings Cross.) On Saturday we had to shut the gates at Wood Green a few times due to overcrowding on the platform - mainly caused by Arsenal fans travelling to the game. They're supposed to not do shutdowns on that sort of weekend!

Today I nearly went to Baron's Court in a driver's cab due to a train radio failure - ordinarily I'd kill for the chance but today is my partner's birthday and his family are coming over, so I needed to decorate the house (balloons etc - yay!) and also bake a cake, cook dinner, see if we could actually fit six around the table, etc, so when someone offered to replace me at Finsbury, I reluctantly agreed. Oh, well! Just have to hope it happens again soon...

More I ought to say, but I've a cake to ice and more balloons to inflate... and a dead early shift again tomorrow.