Timetables

It was a bit chilly over night but there was a lovely bright sunny morning. It's starting to cloud over a bit as the Gorse Fox writes, but it's been a nice day.

Big news for the day was that Cousteau-Cub has fixed the dates for her next trip home and got the flights booked. Needless to say we are all very excited and are looking forward to seeing her.

After a gentle start to the day the Silver Vixen headed out to the front to plant some new shrubs to replace the lavender that we removed last week. As she worked, she was interrupted by various neighbours and caught up on all the news.

The Gorse Fox was doing some admin. He had noticed that whilst the insurance company had correctly recorded and used our post code on their correspondence, and on the individual schedules for the house insurance and part insurance, they had got it wrong on the car insurance. This triggered a phone call to get the error corrected. To be fair to them, not only did the correct it, they had a new schedule emailed out to the Gorse Fox within about 30 minutes.

The Gorse Fox has been invited to an over-65s lunch at his old school. He's very tempted to go but the one thing that is putting him off is the thought of fighting the traffic from St Albans back to the south coast on a Friday afternoon. This triggered a thought. Can it be done, sensibly, by train? Well, it appears that it probably can. The Gorse Fox would have to get the train across to Brighton, then get the train from Brighton to St Albans. Voila! It's not quick, but it isn't too different from the car times and should be more predictable. This, in turn, triggered the thought that it would be cheaper if he still had his Senior Railcard... A few minutes later that was renewed for the next three years and he's saved one seventh of the renewal price with the first journey.