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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

 

Commuter Camels

Whilst travelling home on the tube I noticed something that made me stop and think. Entering the ticket office, wallet (containing Oyster Card) in hand, I was forced to wait whilst a large American gentleman negotiated the turnstyles. From the ether, the old teaching "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God", was plucked and landed squarely in my thoughts. After some moments it was evident that it would be easier for all those in the Square Mile to try and enter heaven by rushing St Peter than it was for this gentleman to negotiate the turnstyle.

The last I saw of him as I descended the escalator was the poor chap trapped in the turnstyles gaping maw, arms flailing, with two attendants trying to "shoe horn" him out. Turnstyle 1 - Tourist 0.

22 Apr 2004 23:09 | (0) comments | London


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