December 2004
the misery of commuting
my train company changed the timings of all its trains this week. they did it so they could ‘have more seat and better punctionality’.
so far, nearly every train i’ve been on had been late and has been full to bursting with people standing.
but my new 6.08am train seems quite good, even if it does mean i have to get up an hour earlier.
so how can such a company ever make it up to their customers ? answer: by giving them a mince pie.
i had a suspicion they were poisoned so they could kill off a few commuters and free up some seats.
page 06
i thought i’d seen the last of the numbered train signs at Paddington, but this morning i spotted page 6 !
word 20 – reach: perspective is a funny old thing
do you see what i’ve done here ? i’ve made it look like that crane in the distance is lifting the christmas tree.
i surprise myself sometimes.
26things
my favourite decoration so far
this massive star is hanging up in the Oracle shopping centre in Reading. i was most impressed by it.
bad planning
this is a sign on a train i sometimes get. it worries me.
shouldn’t it be the driver’s responsibility to make sure he parks the train up properly so people don’t drop to the ground when they get out of the door ?
merry christmas fell apart
this was like distruction art.
as i walked past it at 7 this morning, bits of merry christmas were falling off the window.
eel
eeeeeeel looking a bit dead on a pavement. gor blimey govnor
an abandoned rose
i rarely pick up stuff i find in the street, but i couldn’t resist this abandoned red rose.
there’ll definately be some story behind its abandonment. and we’ll never know.
it’s dark very early in the morning
in order to find a train which still has spare seats i got the 6.08 train from my local station this morning. this meant my walk across london was slightly less crowded than usual
gap teeth other side
what a vain world we live in. terry thomas lookalikes have to use the back door to avoid upsetting the beautiful people at the front.
