Further unpleasantries

Since I no longer travel on the Silverlink – recently renamed London Overground in attempt to fool passengers into thinking that the service has improved – I have become less used to retching on my daily commute.  I was therefore unprepared for the treat afforded to myself and the other passengers as my DLR train approached Canary [...]

Miss Angry of Stratford

Things I wanted to shout out loud on the DLR today but didn’t for fear of being knifed*
1. “Turn your fucking music down.  I can’t hear myself think!”
2. “Pull your trousers up!  You’re waddling like a duck and look completely ridiculous”.**
3. “Close your legs, mister!  Yes, you!  I know you think you’ve got an enormous [...]

Star spotting … sort of

Did anyone see that BBC programme about the bloke in a wheelchair who visited a Spanish brothel to lose his virginity?  (An excellent programme highlighting an interesting issue about disabled people, in my opinion). 
Well, I saw his friend (the good looking one with the long black hair) on the DLR the other day.  In the documentary, [...]

Silverlink Hell

This is why I’m glad that I don’t have to use the Silverlink to travel to work anymore.
I walked past this scene a while back on the way to catching the Docklands Light Railway down to South London, where I now work. How all those people were going to fit into four tiny carriages, is [...]

Big Willy, Horny Boy and French Knickers

After the race I completed a few weeks ago, me, E. and H. went for a celebratory drink.  In the pub, E. took out her phone and started showing us the photos that she had taken of us before and after the race.  They were really good pictures (although we all looked pretty sweaty and [...]

Dog puke

If it wasn’t so gross, it would be funny. 
Yesterday on the way home from work on the Silverlink, a man with a Labrador got on the train at Highbury and Islington.  Half way to the next station, the dog started to heave.  Its owner realised what was going on and in an attempt to avert disaster, held [...]

Silverlink

Living where I do, and working in North London, I’m a frequent user of the Silverlink Metro ’service’ between Stratford and Highbury and Islington.  I’m reluctant to call it a service, as actually, Silverlink don’t really provide much of one, to be honest.
I couldn’t count the number of delays I’ve experienced in my three years [...]