AKICOLJ

[wellinghall]

I've got a four-hour-plus train journey home ahead of me, and I am already tired, cranky, headachy and generally achy. I've just had two paracetamol ( tylenol ), and I have got a bottle of water*. Any other ideas on how to make the journey just that bit more bearable?

*Autocomplete suggested "wine".

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I would be happier if the gates were open to let us onto the platform. I don't think this is unreasonable - the train is meant to be going in about 90 seconds, after all ...

[atreic.livejournal.com]

*hugs* No great ideas, but I would try chocolate and a good book if it was me.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *hugs back*

I do at least have one reasonably good book on the go, and another in a different pocket. I could get chocolate, but Murphy says I would miss the train ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Awful privatised rail service. Not that I remember the nationalised one being any better ...

[muninnhuginn]

At that point I'd take a couple of ibuprofen. But autocomplete's suggestion may be better....

A nap? Soothing music on a portable music device? Staring out of the window and imagining what would happen if you got of at the next stop instead of your actual destination?

*hug* anyway (and the odd eyeball ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Om nom nom

*hugs back*

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Ibuprofen. With or without codeine, as preferered.

Chocolate.

Gin.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mm

Mm

Mm

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Chocolate is a good start, but I think Autocomplete probably has the right idea, LOL.

Cabernet got me through my seven-hour plane ride home. ;)

Sending good wishes your way!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Your journey is now well and truly over, I guess, and I trust that all the finest remedies have been applied and consumed. :)
And you sent me on a quest to discover what AKICOLJ means, and now I am a wiser woman - so thank you very much! (My first guess was that it was something about A K I C On Long Journeys.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am pleased to have been able to extend your knowledge in this matter :-)

[rustica.livejournal.com]

If i'd seen this in time, I'd have suggested a good book.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My book was reasonably good, although a difficult read in places :-)

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

By the time I finally read this, your journey is long over. I hope it wasn't too unpleasant. We just finished 7 hours in the car coming back from the beach.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My journey is indeed long over; and was shorter than yours; although it ended up being over five hours door to door.

[helenajust.livejournal.com]

I'm another one who missed this train. But for the next journey (maybe on your way back?) I would recommend an audiobook. All the advantages of "a good book" plus (a) a degree of noise-blocking (often useful to block out annoying fellow-passengers) and (b) free eyes to watch the scenery.
And now you're looking out of the window, a map is another good thing to have along on a train journey, so you can identify those castles and churches, let alone hills and woods.
You can download audiobooks onto many phones or an iPod. If that's not possible, then have music as a fallback. Hell has been, for me, being on a train with no earphones and the most tedious "conversation" going on at high volume nearby making it impossible for me to read.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this advice :-)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Excellent tips I shall also bear in mind.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Good idea