There are some days that I am very grateful that I always try to allow a full day to get from London to Somerset and vice-versa. Mostly the trains work fine, but it only takes a small problem for things to start falling apart.

I got to Paddington at around 1:45, in plenty of time for the 2:05 train. However, the ticket machines were not working (or at least could not to credit card authorizations) so I spent ages stood in line buying a ticket from an actual harrassed human and missed the train. The next train was an hour later, and I got it no trouble at all. Mostly it was an uneventful journey (and I got 2 hours of coding done), but the train was 10 minutes late getting into Taunton, which meant that instead of having 10 minutes to make my connection I got to watch my connection pulling out just as I was pulling in. And that meant another hour wait for the next train. So all in all it took me 2 hours longer than I expected to make a train journey that should only take 2.5 hours.

Ah well, I had a book, I finished reading the Eco.