Milling through the crowd, I finally managed to escape the maddening crowd and head towards the steps leading to the street where I was accousted by an array of people handing out free: magazines and newspapers
After getting my bearings, I begin to walk towards my destination, work  

08:40...... "Arriving at London Liverpool Street where this train will terminate"
You don't say!

08:30.... The National Express train has left and 'shortly be arriving at Stratford station
Commuters disembark, commuters embark and off we go, onward to our final destination, Liverpool station
I am sat between two bespectacled middle aged women both engrossed with their free Metro
The are two suited and booted twentysomething year old men sitting opposite me; one earplugged to his musical gadget, the other, reading the Metro

08:28...... No train...... Correction, here it comes

08:24...... I'm standing on platform one at Maryland station waiting for the eight twenty National Express train to Liverpool Street staion
The train's only other destination from Maryland Station is Stratford

Happy New Year to you all! I'm welcoming twenty twelve with open arms and an optimism of which was stolen from me in twenty eleven
"What do you mean?" I hear you ask
Well........ To sum my year in a scene similar to 24 (starring Keiffer Sutherland)
January twenty eleven..........
The untimely passing of a colleague
February twenty eleven.......
The unsettling nail biting waiting on job security
March twenty eleven........
The decision unfolds
April twenty eleven.......
A love one is diagnosed with bowel cancer
May twenty eleven........
Struggling to cope with changes around me
June twenty eleven........
Back and forth to the hospital with loved one for chemotherapy treatment
July twenty eleven........
A farewell to St Neots Cambridgeshire and hello to the east of London and a melting pot (house) of four generation in one house
August twenty eleven........
An array of birthdays and barbecues in midst of hospital appointments
September twenty eleven........
The inevitable happened........ Our  much loved one succumbed to one of man's worst enemy, cancer!
My iPhone was stolen, taken from my handbag on the bus. Memories (pictures) of my loved one lost forever!
October twenty eleven.........
A new post awaits me
November twenty eleven.......
A death defying moment when an attempt to take my life was made by a knife welding 'gentleman'
November twenty eleven.......
Getting through aches, pains, sleepless nights....... An emotional wreck!
This was the 'Straw that broke the camel's back!'
December twenty eleven........
'Celebration of life' for my loved one
A good send off party celebrating her life took place. My loved one would have been proud of her family
December thirty first twenty eleven and I gladly waved goodbye to a most heinous horribilous year, embracing twenty twelve with opened arms
I bet you wished you didn't ask now eh!!!

Train/tube tickets have gone up!
I walked the windy walk to Stratford station and queued up for my monthly
"Good morning, may I have a zone one to three top up please"
"one hundred and thirty four pounds"
He saw the look on my face
"I'm afraid it went up this morning"
That's Transport for London for you!
So I show him a false smile as I enter my card for an (i)legal rape of my finance!
"Have a good day!" I retorted in disgust
"You too"
Yeah right! And a Happy (rip off)  New Year to you too Transport for London!!!

I've put on my trainers and now racing out of 2011 fast pacing towards 2012...... I do this with a smile spread across my face 
Why?
Because I know that the good people around me who kept my spirit alive in 2011 will continue to do so in 2012 (and I in return) 
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all xxxxx