London life....and its pitfalls

Living in London has numerous advantages, access to pretty much any sort of culture, entertainment, music, shopping, food, with lots of interesting places to visit and a very cosmopolitan range of people to share the city with, even if, like me, the interactions are mostly confined to 'people watching'. It's not all roses, though, and I fell into one of the pitfalls this morning. I left for work half an hour earlier than usual, thinking that would leave me more than enough time for a 'retail experience' en route, namely acquiring a new pair of trousers for the 'do' on Saturday evening, something, given my ample physique, that requires me to go to clothes shops that cater for....well, ample physiques! I knew where to go and how to get there, though, while more or less sticking to a fairly direct route to work. And it all went according to plan, for the first twenty minutes, at least, but then - enter the pitfall. Traffic. To be exact, a seemingly intractable traffic jam (due to roadworks, as it transpired) my bus became entangled in. After crawling little more than a few hundred yards in a quarter of an hour, I simply gave up, got off and walked the mile or so to the nearest railway station, not only arriving before the bus, but before the bus had even come back into sight. So there was my extra half hour, gone, the shopping trip was scrapped, and I headed straight into work. At least I had, during my revised journey, the consolation of seeing a supercute tourist boy, Mediterranean looking, with flawless olive skin, russet brown hair and a lovely face, on the bus I took to 'cut the corner' between two mainline stations on the way to 'worktown'. Too young - aren't they always? - but still so nice to see. London life!

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B