This blog has, and was always different from the point of view that it was whole life, whole interests centred and not focused narrowly around gender and identity issues as much as I may go on about them as they apply in my life.
Part of that is about going away as much as in the last eighteen or so months it has been fraught with issues but I did get away this weekend but in a lot ways the bigger thing wasn't to be found in the ultimate destination but more what was learned along the way.
Travel, especially by train can be subject to change and that change might be really quite rapid.
With me I had arrived in very good time and checked the overhead screens for the latest travel information as it was becoming apparent an earlier Manchester train was running rather late and so it was with just under two minutes before our train was due as that train arrived that message you dread came over the public address speakers
"Will passenger on platform 6 for the London Northwestern Service to Birmingham New Street please standby for an announcement".
Sure enough we we told our train now was coming in on Platform 11 and in the process of moving at speed I almost fell over and fell my case at which point an Afro-Carribean woman comes along and picks it up and says she'll help me.
So we form a partnership getting to this platform - me feeling progressive more like the child in this relationship of sorts - very much the little gurl lost - and one missed direction we do get about about and I thanked her most profusely.
Getting off at the other end a bit shaken up still, a white guy with strong Black Country accent sees I'm a bit shaken and not only offers to take my case for me down the stairs but sees me into station concourse
We often read of the worst of people and it can be easy to buy into it but certainly I felt I had met some of the best examples of humanity you could for in the most ordinary of situations and really that's the point here.
We care for each other and those people cared for me.
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