Thursday, 27 October 2005

Personal

Half-term

It's clearly half-term this week.

On the way to London the usually stern-faced commuter is chatting with the young girls who have invaded her usual reading time. She's never met them before but they delight in swapping stories.

Next to me a boy sits reading a gaming magazine. Every time he turns the page his elbow nudges me in the ribs. I don't complain; I'm too busy reading over his shoulder.

But the clearest indication it's half-term week comes from the tube driver as we approach Westminster. "Alight here for the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Bridge, the London Eye, County Hall, Whitehall and Downing Street. Ah... it's all here; have fun!"

(It's OK. We can be stuffy and boring again next week.)

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