Following an extended chat at the station with one nice and competent East Coast employee on Monday, and a second today with a different but equally pleasant East Coast employee since the return advance tickets were released last night, I have in my possession 28 pieces of the very finest orange cardboard. I started both conversations with the same opening gambit... "Sorry, you're not going to like me!"
I have presunktly what I needed, at the very cheapest available price and reasonably OK times of day. Me'n'LindaG are going onna jollyday, with bikes and tents and music and pretending to be young in a field! Hurrah!
Quite a lot of sleeps first though....