The road less travelled.

How delightful, sitting in a hotel room in Luxor, to see courtesy of CNN that: "the economic capital of the world is closed due to snow".
Amazing that London is still considered the economic capital of any where!
Returning to snow bound Heathrow, the journey to Malvern proved to be a circuitous route.
The Heatrow express failed to express. My direct train thus left 90 seconds before I boarded it.
The subsequent journey involved alighting at Moreton in Marsh, being driven by a fellow traveller's husband to Worcester, many thanks once again to the unknown knight, then waiting at Foregate Street for an small eternity for a train to Malvern.
It barely seems worth mentioning that a train pulled in accompanied by the announcement that "the train on platform 1 is the Paddington train" No hopeful traveller boarded it. It pulled out.
The stationmaster then informed us that "that was the Malvern train."
For one brief second I was as one with the lynch mob.