This seems to be my topic of the moment.
When everyone is not talking about their summer holiday, upon meeting, the first thing to be discussed is how one was transported to where they are.
How did you get here?
Well, the Jubilee line was closed , so we took the DLR, then the City and Bank, got the train at Waterloo..through Earlsfied..
Earlsfield? Didn't you take the fast train?
No, got there too late...
Came in on the 71 bus..
71? Surely the K4 was quicker..
No, missed that....
No problem meeting new people here, there is always something to kick off a conversation, either how you got there, the weather, or now, Summer Holiday Plans.
No awkward moments..Love it!
On the transport subject, they do not call it a traffic jam here. They call it a 'queue' Somehow makes it seem voluntary. Your fault if you decide to queue on the M25.
I like to listen to the radio traffic report (no matter that I don't have a car and very rarely will ever be on the M25, but they report clockwise, or anticlockwise, awfully clever I thought, gives me a reasonable idea of how the ring road works and where I am in the great scheme of things.
Today the M25, tomorrow the whole Island.
Geography in Great Britain was not on the syllabus at The Convent of St Thomas Aquinas , South Africa.
When everyone is not talking about their summer holiday, upon meeting, the first thing to be discussed is how one was transported to where they are.
How did you get here?
Well, the Jubilee line was closed , so we took the DLR, then the City and Bank, got the train at Waterloo..through Earlsfied..
Earlsfield? Didn't you take the fast train?
No, got there too late...
Came in on the 71 bus..
71? Surely the K4 was quicker..
No, missed that....
No problem meeting new people here, there is always something to kick off a conversation, either how you got there, the weather, or now, Summer Holiday Plans.
No awkward moments..Love it!
On the transport subject, they do not call it a traffic jam here. They call it a 'queue' Somehow makes it seem voluntary. Your fault if you decide to queue on the M25.
I like to listen to the radio traffic report (no matter that I don't have a car and very rarely will ever be on the M25, but they report clockwise, or anticlockwise, awfully clever I thought, gives me a reasonable idea of how the ring road works and where I am in the great scheme of things.
Today the M25, tomorrow the whole Island.
Geography in Great Britain was not on the syllabus at The Convent of St Thomas Aquinas , South Africa.
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