After all the chaos in the UK over the past few days with the bad weather a normal person would have expected some delays so getting to the train station the slight delay was actually welcomed (we were running later than we thought after the buses were running late again). Then the delay turned into half an hour, then and hour and then two hours, all in the space of about 20 minutes. A lot of other trains were being cancelled so Ali and I decided to try and get a train via Woking before the rest of them were cancelled.

To put it lightly the UK doesn’t handle weather very well. If it rains, it floods and then the country stops. If it snows, we get stuck and the whole country stops. If it gets too windy, everything goes down and the whole country stops, we don’t even escape this in the summer months it’s a heat stroke crisis (us Brits don’t fare too well with heat either)…or more flooding.

We got home eventually. After getting to Woking and more trains being cancelled, thankfully we were one of the few who could get home. It’s a nightmare, half my home towns flooded, the riverside in Kingston is more of the same. I’m hoping whilst we’re at home we might eventually get some sunshine…

Alexia Sidney, around 3 months old

I always tell the story of how I found out about Alexia but for this time I’ll keep it short and sweet for you guys. I’ve been friends with Lexi’s mum Lucy since we were in year 7, I used to call her frizz because I kept forgetting her name.  Two years ago I got a surprise when I found out Lexi had been born and a few weeks later I met her for the first time and she cried, and cried, and cried. That didn’t change but I did fall head over heels in love with this little girl and her big eyes. So today Lexi turns two years old!!  I love being a Godmother it’s a fab job, especially when I get to run around with Lexi and act like a kid. It lets me let off some steam and gives Lucy a well deserved break. Today I can’t see her while I’m in Kingston she moved with her clever mummy to Winchester while she pursues her law degree (Lucy I mean, not Lexi I mean the kids smart but now that smart). So this is my way of saying a very happy 2nd birthday to my amazing Goddaughter, she’ll never know just how much joy she gives me and how much I love her. Happy Birthday Lexi Lou!!

It doesn’t matter where you live the majority of people have seen the pictures of the chaos caused by the tube strikes in the last two days, something which I thought wouldn’t be that much of a pain for me. I was definitely wrong, as well as affecting a concert I’ll be taking my sister too next week it has also meant that a few lectures and seminars were cancelled this week. As I empathise with the thousands of commuters and want to shake Boris Johnson for saying the promises he made do not count because they were made ‘before the iPhone’ I realised that I was about to be hit once again by strike action too.

As I mentioned back in December Kingston is not opposed to striking, I received another email saying more of my classes would be cancelled and that we would catch up in the next lecture. I wouldn’t mind this as much but seeing as I’m still expected to do a pile of work tomorrow on a topic we haven’t been taught about. It’s safe to say I’m not best pleased. I don’t feel that I know enough about either strike to have a strong opinion but as a ‘customer’ of both services I do feel a little hacked off. In relation to the tube strikes I understand job losses are an awful thing and 900 people will struggle to find employment but I’m not personally a fan of strikes, that’s just my personal opinion. As for the lecturers strikes I don’t get angry about missing class, it’s when I’m stopped from entering a building that I get irritated.

So there are my thoughts for the day, tomorrow see’s me making dinner for Ali…fire department are on standby.