Week 276: Back to reality

After a holiday that was busy, full of new places and experiences, but also very relaxing, going back to sitting in front of a computer all day has been a difficult adjustment. And as if just getting used to work again wasn’t enough, Tuesday ended up being longer than anticipated. I hadn’t had a chance to check over my bike and pump up the tyres over the weekend, so I took the Overground to Peckham on Monday and Tuesday. That was fine until Tuesday afternoon, when I checked the time of the next train and saw that they had all been cancelled. Something had caught fire at Clapham Junction, at the end of the line, and as a result trains on the entire Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction branch were cancelled all afternoon and evening. One might naïvely ask why they couldn’t just run the trains most of the way and back again, but I think all the platforms along that branch serve multiple routes, and using one as a temporary terminus would block other services. I checked the options to get…