It must be winter again, because having made us sweat our way through a mild autumn, Merseyrail turned off the heating on the train this morning.

Thanks Merseyrail for a good start to my Monday morning, travelling to work on a freezing cold train.

Thank the Gods I’m away for the rest of the week, in my own car, without a yellow and black train in sight

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/2533571894/

In an incident almost as bizarre as the recent adverse weather excuses used by Merseyrail …

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher’s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. (source)

Thanks to PopSci.com and El Reg for the story.

As I was coming through Moorfields station this morning on my way to work, I heard the most unbelievable announcement. Before I recount it, bear in mind that it is a grey overcast morning, with a light breeze. Nothing remotely unusual or inclement.

The announcement was apologising for the late departure of the next train to Hunts Cross because of, and I quote …

“adverse weather”

WTF ??? The wrong kind of heavy grey clouds, one can only presume. It’s like 1991, revisited.

They do make me chuckle sometimes.