August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
190 pages
7h 38m
English

Photograph by Greg McCarroll
My Train-Schedule Alarm Clock
It was a cold winter morning and I was sitting on an even colder bench on a railway platform in London, cursing myself for hitting snooze. Because of that moment of weakness, I had to wait around for the next train. Did I mention it was cold?
So I started thinking about solutions — after all, I had time to kill. A 30-minute snooze function? No good, the gap between trains wasn’t always 30 minutes. Any alarm clock would have to be aware of the railway timetable, ...