Rocks, hard places, trains and funerals.
I'm off today to the SWPTUF (South West Passenger Transport User's Forum) meeting in Taunton - it's a bit of being 'caught between a rock and a hard place' because I really need this weekend for Manor preparations AND the meeting is an important one for me to further contacts and push the case for the local train service that I've probably bored you sllly with already over the last year or so.
Although the meeting covers regional transport policy throughout the south west of England, and is a bit generalised and distant for many of the people / groups in Melksham, I won't be the only one from this neck of the woods down there. We're meeting up with "x" on the train, with "y" at the meeting. "z" sends his regrets - he has to go to a funeral; now if I heard that from anyone else other than "z", I would be offering shocked sympathy, but we know him quite well, and know that in his day job, he works for the local funeral director. I completely understand and appreciate that he can't join us - but somehow "have a good day" didn't seem
quite the right thing to be saying as we finished our phone conversation.
(written 2006-09-30 05:20:11)
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