well there was a power failure at shoreham which meant that buggered up the trains, then there was a broken train at workthing which meant it buggered the trains up further
so after much fucking about at portsmouth harbour i got on a train to waterloo and changed at havant
waited for 40 mins for another train
got on that train - then. shit - you - not.....the driver told us of broken train in worthing and said we would only be going as far as barnham
so i phoned dh and said this
"RIGHT i am totally fucked off with the trains, PLEASE pick me up from barnham"
as we were nearing barnham - was feeling quite smug in the fact that i had transport arrangements in the cold cold weather - it had then begun to snow a little...kwhen there was an announcement that the driver had called ahead and there was a train waiting at barnham which would take everyone to the stops to brighton.
so dh needn't have come out after all
but i didn't tell him the last bit
funnily enough, i'm meant to be meeting a friend at gunwharf next week. i am going to suggest chichester as its easier to get home from 
nice to meet you all.