Rich of March House

A not-very-interesting-at-all quick guide:

1. Catch Circle or District line eastbound from Victoria
2. Once on the tube train toss up in your hear the pros and cons of changing tracks at either Westmister or Embankment.  Westminster involves fewer station stops and you can transfer to the Jubilee line to cross the river and get to Waterloo.  Embankment is one stop further up the Circle or District line but has the advantage of having two lines (Northern and Bakerloo) from it to the target station.
3. Decide at Westminster to stay on Circle or District line for the double-opportunity reasons described in step 2.
4. Get to Embankment and stride off confidently to southbound Northern line platform.
5. Get to southbound Northern line platform.  Look at arrivals board and notice that the next train isn't for another four minutes.  Get impatient.
6. Decide that there must be a sooner train at the southbound Bakerloo line platform.  Walk back up steps, through tunnels and arrive at Bakerloo line platform.
7. Notice that the next southbound Bakerloo line train isn't for another six minutes.  Decide to go back to initial plan of catching a Northern line train.
8. Get back to Northern line platform and realise that due to the time expenditure required for walking between platforms the train that was previously not arriving for another four minutes is just pulling out of the station.  Without you on it.  See that next train from this platform isn't for another six minutes.
9. Head back to Bakerloo line platform for a second time.  Hear a train pull up as you are very nearly there.  Lose plenty of dignity by running to the train and jumping on fractionally before the doors shut and it pulls off.
10. Wait on the train until it pulls up at your final goal!  Waterloo!  Except that it isn't.  It's Charing Cross.  Because you went to the wrong platform.  And got on the northbound train.  You berk.
11. Cross platforms and catch next southbound train to Waterloo.

I tried to halp Nathan out with his spam protection and managed to break my blog in the process.  Ignore this - it's for testing purposes only.

The latest item in the ever-increasing "list of things that have broken or gone wrong in the two months we have lived in March House" is the washing machine. Yesterday it started to refuse to start to spin. It just sat there full of wet trousers, making a funny noise and not spinning. Time to deploy my DIY skills once more.

So I pulled the machine out from under the counter, set it to "spin" on the dial and assertively applied an almighty kick to its side, whereupon the drum made a rotational twitching movement and the electicity to the ring main simultaneously turned itself off in the fusebox. I assume that something in the washing machine shorted out - prognosis not good.

Having reset the trip switch under the stairs I tried the washing machine again, fully expecting to blow myself up or electrocute myself but surprisingly that didn't happen. What did happen was that the washing machine started working again. Its sulk was over and we were back to normal. See? I can do DIY after all.

And guess what? Our boiler has just packed in. No hot water and no central heating.

We're in for a cold night.

Lunch at the Osbourne View, originally uploaded by el10t.

Lunch at the Osbourne View