Verb Sap Don't travel southwards on GNER on Monday morning.And especially on trains that start from Embra. Huttonian used to advise would be travelers to always choose GNER starting from Edinburgh rather than a 'service' (A GNER oxymoron) from say Glasgow or Aberdeen as there was less scope for delay. But not on Mondays especially after a week end of disruption caused by railworks aimed at avoiding disruption but, not of course, at weekends. If you see what I mean. This morning the 1013 from Berwick conveying the wife to southern parts was repackaged as the 1100 from Berwick as the 0930 from Embra left at 1015 as the crew could not be found. A wrong kind of crew won't do so the right one had to be rounded up, no doubt over sleeping, exhausted from having to get up north over a largely trainless weekend-with buses, charabancs, and shoe leather laid on at various interim points where the tracks were temporally unlaid. But yet from Glascow and farly north Aberdeen the Trains, Virgin and GNER were rolling in 4 minutes early Why Embra is so difficult to reach in time was not explained by Team Leader reading out his list of excuses and inconveniences regretted.

Fortunately the wife's engagement is tomorrow. So she might keep it  ¶ 11:31 AM