improvements in technology - or maybe not

i can remember being told that in victorian times the toilets on trains were just holes that went straight down onto the tracks and you weren't allowed to use the toilet while at a station. well we are over 100 years since the end of victorian times and i had assumed that technology would have improved.

but on wednesday after i had arrived in king's cross and was walking down the platform to head for the tube i noticed a sign saying "please do not flush the train toilets when at a platform as they flush onto the tracks" and i was a bit shocked. i had thought that nowadays when you flushed a train toilet it would be stored somewhere and then discharged somewhere and taken to a sewage plant - but no it just goes onto the tracks!!!!

not a grinch

I was planning a grinch like post but after some others beat me to it I decided that I would not be a grinch so


Yay its almost Christmas and the people behind us have already got their Christmas lights up!!!

yay!!!!

this time last year!

this time last year...
i was full of excitement

this time last year...
i was boarding a plane in newcastle

this time last year...
i was ushing through heathrow

this time last year...
i was flying to new york

this time last year...
i was loving manhatten

this time last year...
i was with a good friend

this time last year...
i was surprised at the warmth

this time last year...
i was missing andrew

this time last year...
i was standing in line

this time last year...
i was drenched by the rain

this time last year...
i was enjoying the music