I'm home...but only just...

Morning everyone...yes I'm home from sunny and even sometimes warm Harrogate to dark dreary wet and very windy Aberdeenshire...now there's a surprise.  I had a fandabbidosie fabulous fun weekend at GNPE with all these lovely crafters...

and I will tell you all about that tomorrow after I've recovered from my "you couldn't make it up if I tried" train journey home last night....to be honest at one point I thought I might never see home again.  We were ahead of time as we pulled into Newcastle to be told by the Train Manager "just a fancy name for the guard" that we might be here for some time as they didn't have a driver to take the train onto Aberdeen...he suggested rather too politely for my liking that we get off and hop on the train standing alongside which was going to Edinburgh where we could pick up a train to Aberdeen.  Didn't sound right to me but I followed everyone else not exactly chuffed about lugging my extra heavy suitcase...yes jammed pack with goodies...onto yet another train.    But as I reached the train....the driver informed us that this train wasn't going anywhere fast either as he didn't have a guard....adding "get back on your train quick as I have just seen the driver get into the cab".....well I just made it back on by the skin of my teeth when the train took off without a by your leave...I do hope that those poor folks who listened to our hysterical Train Manager and had managed to grab a seat on that other train made it home safe and are not still sitting in Newcastle.

And just when you think it couldn't get any worse....the world...his wife and 2 girls with bicycles...yes you did read that bit correctly....piled onto our already packed to the rafters train in Edinburgh jamming up all the aisles...kissing goodbye to any thoughts of a relaxing journey home and no hope of any trolley service or a trip to the loo.  

We finally limped into Aberdeen about an hour late with a train load of very very unhappy passengers especially those poor souls who had missed their Inverness connection and were going to be completing their journey by bus. And no surprise when I tell you that our Train Manager and the rest of the crew seemed to disappear off the face of the earth from Edinburgh onwards...no one came to check our tickets on the journey home....I wonder why.

I'm having a snuggly kind of jammie day with my bundle of gorgeous deliciousness and I'll catch up with you all tomorrow once I recover my sanity.

Hugs Kath xxx