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Riding the Eurostar is simply embarassing if you’re a Brit. One of the world’s most powerful, fastest trains humbled by a crap track network. It’s a shame the speedy bit of line only runs from mid-Kent down to the […]

I’m reading a book by a guy called Ian Marchant. It’s called Parallel Lines and is about the history of the British railway network: Beeching, Stevenson, Brunel and how the lines were built. Essential reading for commuters.
One of the most famous railway tunnels in Britain, if there can be such a thing as a famous […]

London was a nasty place to be tonight. Well, the middle bit anyway. Some mad fool had the idea of racing Formula 1 cars around the streets, presumably so we can pitch for a Grand Prix in the centre of the city. Kind of like a Monaco without the sea. Or the escalators that take […]

The clear-out continues. Today it was the turn of the bookshelves.
I can’t bear to throw away books, but I’ve gathered together the useless members of the collection, like 1995 editions of the Writer’s Handbook, and a 1998 Writer’s and Artist’s Yearbook and am slowly shuffling them towards the swing bin.
The ones I want to keep […]

I’ve lived here for six years, but only met my over-the-road neighbour for the first time this evening. We didn’t have time to chat for long - he was busy reversing into my car at the time.
I bipped three times, but he didn’t slow down. Fortunately we both seem to have bumpers made of rubber, […]

I’m worn out. And so are my shoes. I managed to poke a finger right through the sole of one this morning, so took advantage of the half day we were pencilled in for at work while the burly types arranged our new desks on our new floor and scooted up to Covent Garden to […]