Thank you :)
Don't say that - don't want any more service disruption now we have two non-burnt tunnels! Things have been quiet operationally lately... a little too quiet which probably means there's epic epic problems a-brewing...

I can has Javelin on the 24th since I need to be at SPI for 9am and the boss has very kindly allowed me to go up on the Javelin (got to come back on the domestic slow train though) - we were offered free trials last week but I was otherwise unavailable :( and your sets are all spangly and new, and ours are awaiting refurb - they look lovely and shiny!

You seen my flatmate with his trolley yet?
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:08, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I takes Eurostar a fair bit for work
And finds that they're very good.

Except for that day I turned up and they were all on fire and that.

So I took a ferry.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:12, Reply)

Did you get paid back for the ferry?
If not, why not? Although we tend to wonder why you're only claiming a year later...

Am pleased we provide a service to your satisfaction and hope to be welcoming you on board again soon (been answering too many emails lately since there's next to no post :)
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:14, Reply)

Actually
They'd arranged for free ferry crossings for anyone booked onto the train.

As I say, damn good service.

Course, we generally get free Eurostar crossings what with being journalists going out to do features or stories, but they've been harder to come by with the tunnel being all melty...
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:16, Reply)

Yep :) turn up with your tix and hop on the first available ferry!
Seafrance were excellent about it, especially as Dover was packed - some of my colleagues were down there on the 12th. I was in Ashford station in high-vis putting people who'd just come off the ferries on a Eurostar to SPI and giving them water. Bloody Sky News were down there though claiming it was one of our sets that had caught fire!

Ah, you have a corporate account? I knows them all in that team as they work on my floor and sadly it includes Stalker Girl...
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:19, Reply)

Corporate account?
Oh, no, nothing that clever. We just ring up and go 'er, hello. It's us again... can we have some crossings please? We'll write something nice to say thank you...'

And sometimes they say yes. Hooray.
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:21, Reply)

Just go through direct sales?
Look into corporate EFT accounts, it could save you money in the long run!

/jeez Mal, take the service personality hat off!
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:22, Reply)

Save us money?
You can get cheaper than free?
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:25, Reply)

Well, allow you to accrue points that can be used for benefits later if you travel a lot.
And not just for business travel; it's worth making yourself known since if you want to nip over to France or Belgium you can rack the points up and then redeem them for nice things.

Incidentally, you can also now travel all the way through to Switzerland with a change in Paris.

/is not a corporate drone, honest
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:28, Reply)

Meh
Sounds like effort.

Also planning. We don't do planning.

Still, £28 return for you and a bike can't be faulted.

/is not in any way affiliated with them
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:42, Reply)

Eurodespatch FTW.
/is not in any way fanatically devoted to her company
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:48, Reply)

Prophets of Doom!
I wouldn't say anything like that too loud - normally it does come true!

Not sure what I'm doing for the next couple of weeks, but if I'm playing trains then, I'll let you know. - As for your flatmate, spotted him getting on my train the other week- but I was running late so couldn't stop and say "Hi".
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:24, Reply)

I suspect telling him you know me would freak the shit out of him...
My colleagues say hi to him all the time and he comes up to me later and says "some random lady said hello to me today and I don't know who she was!" You can't miss him though, he's the only one I've seen who drags the trolley one handed...

Huzzah! I has never seen you, in fact - I know a fair few of the station staff from being E* and because of flatmate...

Last year my boss said "we have never had a set fail in the ET." Three weeks later...
( Maladicta, Sat 4 Jul 2009, 20:27, Reply)