Work is not good for this website, at least. Apologies once again for the 7 day hiatus - it's not that anything interesting has happened to me (living in one of the world's cultural capitals, unlike Laura who inhabits a rural corner of the Carolinas and still has more crazy things happen to her in a week than Malcolm in the Middle manages in a year).

Best thing of the last week: turning up at Barnes station to get my regular morning train into work, I arrived as a train on platform 4 disgorged its regular troupe of morning commuters. Only when the train started rolling again did I hear the pumping, whooshing sound of hot vapour and looked up to see it was a bloody steam train!! And it was beautiful! I dunno if it was some massive hit on my nostalgic historical subconscious or what, but I felt profoundly moved as the black engine and green carriages chhh-da-kfffed their way towards Barnes Bridge.