Usual saturday morning panic.

Leave house in the minutes, walk to bucher's buy chicken aqnd place it in special picnic-type bag with ice cooler thingys.  Walk on to station, allowing time for ticket queue.

Train arrives at 0936, but waits pointlessly until 0942. Should reach Clapham Jnctn at 0950 - just time to run from platform 17 to 9 to catch 0952.

Half an hor later, Guildford.  The bus station if 7 minutes walk away, looks like an out take from Blade Runner, with smoking compulsory; plus 10 minute wait standing....  Usually I persuade myself to waste £7 on a taxi - twice the return train fare to G'ford...

Then, if luck holds, I'll arrive at Mumsville just before 11 am, with a dead, cool, free range chicken, smiling