April, come she will
I had a strange couple of days on Tuesday and Wednesday – I went down to London for a meeting by train (and the excitement level of the meeting can be seen from the extract of my notes reproduced to the right!). Overnight Monday/Tuesday and Tuesday morning had been extremely wet and I knew bad weather was coming in but it was only when we got south of Edinburgh that I began to realise how bad.
There were impressively heavy, grey seas all down the east coast through the Borders and into Northumberland with lots of standing water in the fields. Streams and rivers were in spate and from their colour a lot of topsoil was being washed downstream. As I watched the seas along the Northumberland coast I thought, perversely, that it would be a great day to be wrapped up and walking along the coastal path, the salt lash and stinging wind giving testimony to the joys of being alive.
And then a train in front of us broke down. We were already late leaving Edinburgh because we waited for connecting trains which had been delayed by bad weather further north and in some respects I wasn’t too worried because I had plenty to keep me occupied but as time rolled on it became clear that the train ahead of us was going nowhere and neither were we. We eventually got to London 2 hours late.
Overnight there was heavy snow in Edinburgh and the Borders and a landslide on the railway line so when I got to Kings Cross for my train north I was redirected to Euston where our tickets were being recognised by competing train companies going up the West coast. In fact the journey was without incident, albeit crowded, but because of the delay in London I was still 2 hours late getting home.
Rapper practice on Monday was ace. We were pretty sharp anyway from having an extended practice and mini tour on Saturday in St. Andrews. The pic on the left is some of the team practicing really hard for the upcoming competition in Derby for which we have one remaining practice.
You will find my report on last year’s DERT in my entry for 18 March 2009 here. The difference this year is that we are a better side and, with a bit of luck, a more confident side as well.
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