Many doors and many steps today

26 November 2008

I was in London today with John, photographing at a conference at the Barbican centre. Getting to the centre involved a train journey and various tube lines and an awful lot of steps up and down and – since we were travelling in the rush hour – an awful lot of people on the tube. I’ve never had to wait for the next tube because there’s no more room on the one that’s just arrived. And I’ve certainly never had to wait for the one after that either. More people should be wise like me and work from home. Sure, all your friends are imaginary and live in your computer, but at least you don’t have to get up at 6.45am to stand on a train.

Other notable events today:
- Talking about our job to a man who had cake on his face – and not telling him he had cake on his face.
- Asking for half a cup of coffee, being given half a cup, drinking it and deciding that it was so yummy that it was worth going back to ask for another half.
- Talking to Adrian Moorehouse about swimming – I’d come to the conclusion that it may well be a physical impossibility for me, but then Ellie Simmonds came along and ruined that particular theory. Maybe I should be talking to her.
- Sitting on the floor of the train between London Bridge and Chelsfield, reading my copy of last week’s The Week and eating the chocolate brownie slice I’d taken from the conference.