Today I'm going to Oakwood for sunlight duties...

...and it's pouring with rain outside. To the point where I'm about to try to find my raincoat because otherwise I'll drown just walking to the bus stop.

Forgot to mention this one the other day, but working at Cockfosters recently I helped two foreign sounding chaps heavily laden with baggage through the manual gate. A few minutes later one came back and asked me where to get a District Line train to Wimbledon. Earls Court, I answered, and he looked round. Where are the District trains? he repeated, and I repeated my answer, then got a tube map to point it out. He showed me his itinery, printed from the TfL journey planner. It said to get a Piccadilly Line train towards Cockfosters, and change at Earls Court... unfortunately they'd misinterpreted it as *go* to Cockfosters. The poor chaps had to make another 50 minute journey back again...

Today I was down for sunlight duties which probably explains why it was chucking it down with rain when I woke up, to the point where I actually went and dug out my raincoat for the walk down to get the bus. When I got to the station it was almost as wet inside as out; with the renovation works there were an awful lot of leaky spots, and earlier - about the same time I was out catching a bus - the wind had simply been blowing the rain inside at various points just due to the open design of the station. There was even one leak from the ceiling in the stairwell; thankfully it was incredibly small and was dripping in the middle, at the handrail, so the small puddle wasn't the trip hazard it might have been. The rain also finally cleared up at about 10, so things improved.

I got sent off to a rather hastily arranged team talk meeting, which basically consisted of anyone they could drag off the stations. Since I was officially spare - and the sun hadn't come out enough to affect the monitors - and Oakwood has low staffing requirements, both the rostered CSA and I were sent off down to Arnos, where we were joined by the CSA from Cockfosters and two from Arnos for the informal meeting. Didn't learn much!

Lastly, I finally got a phone call from the recruitment people to say that I have to go in for a medical, which I've booked for Friday since I'm on rest day then. Hopefully there will be no major problems; the only thing that worries me is my weight, which is rather bad at the moment.