So I take it that no recorders feature on your wedding list either? 

Will do, with my first paycheque, whenever I end up getting a job.  Promise!

I think I may have quoted here before the comment of a colleague of mine who flew into London City from Basel and was delayed mightily on his trip into the centre of town by Docklands Light Railway problems:

"What is this signal failure?  In Switzerland we do not have this."

Indeed Mart, we welcome back The Dough!  See it`s your time of the month again, O Green One

Oi think someone's taken 'is snowdrop, Mort.

Good to see you back, Ron. Hope the service went well. (Did you quake?) I take it the delays were on the way back, not the way down ... that's a relief, at least.

Delays both ways: going there the delay was between Paddington and Reading, thanks to a Heathrow Express failing. I was at Paddington in time to have reached Reading for the start of the concert, but due to the delay missed virtually the whole first half.

No quaking for anybody at the meeting, but an extraordinarily still and consoling occasion.

 Our plane (just off the board in the picture) was one of the few that managed to land, load, and take off again without very much delay, but when I'd arrived (having taken an hour to get from Bank to the airport) the rather compact concourse was in chaos. The Geneva flight scheduled for 13.05 was checking-in at the same desk as ours, due out forty minutes later: I looked at the Dep. board just before we left, and the time had been changed to 16.15. Not fun.

There were two places where there would have been delays in the past which were clear, however: the Forth and Tay road bridges. Tolls on both were abolished at midnight this morning, so the customary queues and associated congestion were miraculously absent.

Got modded over something just there^*. 

Sometimes I feel I must be the most modded person on this board 

^*all dealt with amicably, of course.

My sympathies, Ron; missing part of a performance for which you've travelled a long way is a fairly soul-destroying experience.

I'm sure I have already told the story about the time I was heading from London Euston to Glasgow and was delayed four hours on the outward journey when my train broke down, sat stationary for two and a half hours in the wilds of the Lake District, was eventually shunted into Carlisle where the passengers were transferred onto a coach.  I missed - by an infuriatingly close ten minutes - the first act of the opera I was travelling to see, despite having thought I'd built in plenty of "contingency time".

Having had such bad luck on the Virgin route on the outward journey, I decided to travel back via the East Coast Main Line, but my luck only got worse.  The train developed a fault between Glasgow and Edinburgh; when it eventually limped into Edinburgh, we sat there for half an hour while they attempted to fix the fault, then they took the train out of service and we were asked to wait for the replacement train which was being brought into service but which was a good half hour away.  Two hours late already and with a flexible ticket, I decided instead to take the next available London train from a different platform.  It was fine until just north of Peterborough where it too decided to break down; it creaked into Peterborough and was taken out of service.  After waiting a while on Peterborough station platform in a snowstorm (it was December), what should be the next train to arrive but the one that had been sent to rescue those stranded at Edinburgh by the train on which I'd started my journey.  I seem to recall I had almost doubled my intended journey time by the time I arrived at King's Cross.

I'm surprised to see so many tales of delays on the Docklands Light Railway... I've always found it by far the most reliable bit of the London network, and I've rarely known it to suffer any problems.