Wordsmith

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In fact, the last thing that a passenger who has already been outraged by being called a customer wants to hear when he is sitting, or probably standing, in a train running late, or probably not running at all, is a voice on the public address system calling the train a service, when providing a service is exactly what it is currently in the process of not doing.
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The Tate gallery, for example, in either of its manifestations, Tate Britain or Tate Modern, is now officially not the Tate, but Tate. This leaves the way open to meet at eight at Tate to eat, in which case we ate at Tate, or we were late at Tate and had to wait, and thus missed our Tate at eight tete a tete.
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Clive James
A Point of View, BBC News Magazine

I'm like a bird...

Sábado finalmente fui gastar o voucher que a Rita me tinha dado no meu aniversário - uma lição de voo! Fomos ate Biggin Hill, e passei 1h no G-BHDU, um Cessna 152 construído em 1979.

Quanto atingimos a altitude de 2,500 pés, o instructor passou os controles para as minhas mãos e deixou-me curtir umas voltinhas.

Sai de lá com um sorriso de orelha a orelha, e vontade de voar mais!

O resto do fim-de-semana foi passado a ver avioes na internet, com uma breve pausa para dar um saltinho à exposição de William Hogarth na Tate Britain.

Ameaça de Bomba

Ameaça de bomba no meu local de trabalho.

BP offices hit by mail bomb scare

Não fui eu, a sério.

Update: The Metropolitan Police established an Incident Response Team, which found that the package was a bag meant for disposal and that there was no malicious intent.

Working from Home

Acordei e vi isto. Hoje trabalho a partir de casa.
Quem pode, pode.