Elisse and I booked a trip tonight, to go to Stafford at the end of P&R week - don't ask me what either P or R stand for, I don't know.

Having heard you get nectar points on thetrainline.com we went there first. Then found that for some bizzare reason only one rail card can be used per booking. So off we head to the standard national rail site.

Having got through the booking process, which takes time, and got the price and being ready to pay, turns out you can't actually buy tickets there any more, they just redirect you to another site - without sending along any information about what you were about to purchase.

So we ended up back at the train line site and went through the process, signed up, entered address details etc. and finally got a single ticket for a young persons rails card in the basket. Then I went to enter the same details (for the 4th time) to purchase the second ticket. Only to discover that by some miracle of the gods this section of the site will allow you to specify as many rail cards as you like. So I went through the whole process again with 2 adults and 2 railcards and then deleted the first lot from the basket.

All in all there are many easier ways to give someone £44.80.