I need the magic!

I need Harry Potter's magic - the bug was back this morning so it was emergency Immodium for my journey home.

Next emergency was Marian found there was a problem on the train line - we made a dash for the station so that I could catch a train 2 hours earlier in order to get to Kings Cross to catch my home train north. Several trains had been cancelled so it was standing room only for a pootle along the coast to Brocklehurt where we all decanted to stand in a queue for buses. The station forecourt was too small for all the buses to turn round in the mayhem, but eventually we were off on a slow trundle by Stagecoach round the New Forest to pitch up at Southampton Station and then onto another slow packed train to Waterloo.

I must travel light in future - struggling up all the stairs in the underground with a heavy case is no fun. And so to Platform 9 and 3/4 and then it was a 4 hour whizz home.

Mr C said he could have driven in less time than it took me, which was 11 hours from Corfe Castle - but as he has had a speeding ticket and now has to do his speed awareness course, probably just as well I was on the train. (He was doing 1mph less than me though when I got mine last year!)

Ps no idea who the ageing Harry is.