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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.

Tube Fun

Having waited on the Victoria line platform @ Warren Street for 15 minutes before it was announced that everything was going tits up due to 'smoldering', we trudged back up the faulty escalators and then down to the Northern Line, the masses of people seething like a Metropolis-esque seething mass of, erm, people.

Having squeezed onto a cosy and ever so slightly humid Northern Line tube and emergenced unscathed (except for the sweat patches on my knees - don't ask), we stood at Tottenham Court Road. And Waited. Then waited some more. Whilst waiting this chap arrived, looked at the next train indicator, and turned to say to no-one in particular

"3 minutes. 3 F'in minutes. I can't wait three minutes"

before disappearing into the crowd. I'd like to know if he could emerge topside hail a cab, and make it to his destination quicker...

On a lighter note, Oxford Circus was closed, Lancaster Gate is still closed so it made the remaining journey comparably bearable. Well as bearable as sweating out you eyeballs is.

20 Jul 2006 19:32 | (1) comment | London