Nero is a tenner plus a fiver for the train... Swindon is twenty plus fifty for the petrol?
Sorry Fred... Didn't realise I'd touched a nerve. I'm sure you can remember those days eh?!
Lame excuse.
Book the train ticket early enough and you can get Swindon / Brighton return for £14 on Great Western. You could have booked ticket the train in June, if of course, you actually wanted to go.