A funny thing happened on the way up Snowdon
| 21:43 UK time, Thursday, 12 June 2008
I just wanted to write this down before I forgot. On the day we went up Snowdon, there had been a bit of tension between Iolo and the crew, because he was adamant that we all should walk the whole way up and not go half way by train. They disagreed (with hindsight, thank god they did - I wouldn't have made it).
When we gathered at the station I felt there was a bit of an undercurrent and the fact that Iolo also had a black eye, going through the purple and yellow phase, clearly visible even under Cheryl the sound woman's concealer, didn't help.
Anyway we all piled onto the train and started up the track. Iolo was actually still muttering about wanting to walk and I think he felt really gutted that we hadn't been allowed to do it. Anyway about half way up, we saw this guy sitting on the side of the track, obviously someone connected to the railway, very contentedly munching his way through a large butty.
For some reason this caused us all major hilarity, the sight of him with his chops rounds this huge sandwich, just sitting there, as the train ambled towards him. We decided that the train was bringing him another sandwich and that he probably just sat there all the time, like all day and all night, with each train bringing him yet another sandwich - maybe themed according to the time of day!
The icing on the cake for me though was when Iolo piped up "and the last train brings him a pillow". For some reason I thought this was the funniest thing I have heard in a very long time and I laughed so much I nearly cried.
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