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I'd foolishly thought I could catch the 9.06 train, but clearly that was over optimistic so I feel back on 9.36 - only to have a minor panic and look like I was going to miss that as well. I had five minutes to get from the busstop to the platform, and both ticket machines were in use. Fortunately the window was clear, but then my ticket wouldn't let me through.
"It won't let you through," said the guard. "Oh, I'd better open it for you manually so you can get through that way. Being as your ticket won't operate the automatic barrier. I need to press the button. Oh, you've showed me the wrong ticket there, that's what you have done. That is why you can't get through."
Remarkably the train is still on the platform.
At the next station, the train is meant to join up with another, but the magnets aren't working. After twenty minutes we are told to move to the next train, which is now full, and it'll be fast to my destination.
It is fair to say I'm not in the best of moods, so I begin with the market and then the east side of the high street whilst in search of a secondhand bookshop. I stumbled as if by accident on a mixed new/used, and picked up a few items. After a pause for coffee, I crossed the canal and the river and headed north, with no sign of the street I wanted. I even stopped apostman, who hadn't heard of it. I texted a friends. No joy, and head south.
Finally I spotted the street, on the wrong side of the road from my memory of the map (memo to self!), and invisible going north. And...
"It won't let you through," said the guard. "Oh, I'd better open it for you manually so you can get through that way. Being as your ticket won't operate the automatic barrier. I need to press the button. Oh, you've showed me the wrong ticket there, that's what you have done. That is why you can't get through."
Remarkably the train is still on the platform.
At the next station, the train is meant to join up with another, but the magnets aren't working. After twenty minutes we are told to move to the next train, which is now full, and it'll be fast to my destination.
It is fair to say I'm not in the best of moods, so I begin with the market and then the east side of the high street whilst in search of a secondhand bookshop. I stumbled as if by accident on a mixed new/used, and picked up a few items. After a pause for coffee, I crossed the canal and the river and headed north, with no sign of the street I wanted. I even stopped apostman, who hadn't heard of it. I texted a friends. No joy, and head south.
Finally I spotted the street, on the wrong side of the road from my memory of the map (memo to self!), and invisible going north. And...
Chuffing shut.
A few more charity shops, and pop into Julian Graves. As always I can't remember what I want.
Rather than having another coffee, I decide to go to the next town along the branch line - to see if it's worth returning. As the train pulls in, I recognise a face. Good grief, it's Alex and his partner - I went to college with him. A snatched conversation and then another town to get to grips with. It keeps unfolding, and seems all twisted around, and I find two secondhand bookshops, neither of which yield anything. The third is okay and cheap, if limited.
Time to head back north and west - and hope that the train can split on the way back. The train is going to Minster and Minster, but I'm not sure if it's the same Minster.
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