Monday morning - Colchester Station

Somehow, I'm not convinced that Simon and Garfunkel would have been especially inspired by such a scenario although, as if in consolation, the sun is shining.

Unusually, my inward journey from mid-Suffolk is delayed by both a signal failure at Colchester and a bridge strike at Kelvedon, so I may be pretty late this morning.

My fellow passengers this morning in seats B9, 10, 13 and 14 are a Chinese couple and their astonishingly cute child, and a young lady reading a book entitled 'Situating Postcolonial Studies'. Me, I'm just reading The Times, doing the puzzles and thinking about ringing my boss to tell him how late I'm going to be...