Good afternoon.
The numbers are mind numbing. So are the issues. Hundreds of millions of letters, postcards, parcels and parking tickets held up in mountainous backlog at places like Mount Pleasant.
The numbers are mind numbing. So are the issues. Hundreds of millions of letters, postcards, parcels and parking tickets held up in mountainous backlog at places like Mount Pleasant.
The headache seems to be turning a nineteenth century business into one fit for the twenty first, when many of the staff still see it as a social service! It's a company that used to have a Minister in charge and is now run by an ex-Saatchi & Saatchi guy and the man who helped create Asda supermarkets. A recipe for disaster, you might think. How right you'd be.
Liz is our fragrant philatilist and Marcus is on a hopeless search for the stamp of approval as wildcat action threatens to shut down London's postal system, again, from 6pm.
Liz is our fragrant philatilist and Marcus is on a hopeless search for the stamp of approval as wildcat action threatens to shut down London's postal system, again, from 6pm.
By which time all our lovely children should be home with you after another day at school. If you drive the little darlings right up to the front entrance your reason may be safety or convenience. If some have their way in Camden, you can forget it.
School entrances might become no-go zones for motors. Rediscover your feet and leg muscles with Nick, who likes a stroll.
The travellers on the site of the Olympics are finally travelling but it's been more of a marathon than a sprint. Simon Harris witnesses the passing over of the baton but some of the travellers remain deeply unhappy. As travellers you'd have thought they like to be on the move but choice is such an important thing, isn't it?
So we will also be showing you the choice between paying thousands to have a suit made to measure in, let's say, Saville Row, and having one "finished" to your specification at your place of work. Glen is the man with the chalk and tape measures: "Suits you, Sir", I said to him. He blushed.
For a wedding you might settle for 'off the peg' unless you think "til death us do part" is only a figure of speech. Anyway, weddings are dear, in any measure, so a little known tradition in the City might help if you and your chosen one fit the bill. Just for you, Phil has something old, something new, something borrowed but never anything blue...
Steve meets Carbon Silicon which should keep him warm this winter. One part comes from the Clash, the other Generation X. I think it will be noisy but nostalgic.
Chrissie has the fog to explain which could take some time. It made us all a bit late this morning, or so some of them claimed. The papers and your thoughts on car bans at school entrances should give us all enough homework to do in the next couple of hours.
Grade us at 6.
Alastair and Katie
