Commuting - what's your story?
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Well I swing open the door from my humble sanctuary, ready to take on what the world will throw at me. With great effort I negotiate the trickery of sleeping cat and wheeled toys, before making the all important decision of heading straight to work or taking the scenic route.
If the former, then I open the opposite door across the landing and enter my office, if the latter then I go for a crap first.
If the former, then I open the opposite door across the landing and enter my office, if the latter then I go for a crap first.
FROM Central London TO Sevenoaks in Kent 
Leave 6:30, Blackwall about 6:55, A2, M25, B roads, arrive about 7:30.
Coming home - Leave about 4:30, sit on the M25 for 5 hours because the traffic alert forgot to tell me about the Micra with a flat tyre that has caused a four junction tailback. Get off motorway, go B road way instead and arrive home tired, stinking of cigs and busting for a piss. It's about a 37 mile drive that can take anything from an hour to infinite hours.
Still vastly cheaper than the train which goes nowhere I want to go at the time I want to be there.
Leave 6:30, Blackwall about 6:55, A2, M25, B roads, arrive about 7:30.
Coming home - Leave about 4:30, sit on the M25 for 5 hours because the traffic alert forgot to tell me about the Micra with a flat tyre that has caused a four junction tailback. Get off motorway, go B road way instead and arrive home tired, stinking of cigs and busting for a piss. It's about a 37 mile drive that can take anything from an hour to infinite hours.
Still vastly cheaper than the train which goes nowhere I want to go at the time I want to be there.
Seven miles's drive from North London to the City. Forty minutes in the morning. Fifteen to twenty minutes in the evening. Listen to Today programme in the morning, music on way home. Arrive fresh.
Or forty minutes squashed up against other people on the Northern Line. Might manage to read a bit of the paper on iPad. Arrive sweaty.
Or forty minutes squashed up against other people on the Northern Line. Might manage to read a bit of the paper on iPad. Arrive sweaty.
50 miles, single lane a roads and dual carriage way. Takes an hour as long as no one has been unfortunate or stupid, and dover port hasn't shut down over night due to strikes or weather.
Next month it will be cut to 2 miles, along the beach on either the bike or walking, will only take the car if its peeing hard or I'm off somewhere afterwards
Next month it will be cut to 2 miles, along the beach on either the bike or walking, will only take the car if its peeing hard or I'm off somewhere afterwards
[would be useful]
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