Blue Monday
Mood:  down
Now Playing: The Sound Of Music
Monday soon came around again didn't it? Very tasty Bacon Sandwich at Abdul's cafe on Bethnal Green Road yesterday and I bought some bagels back from the Bagel Bake too. I get a 10% discount there as I'm an ex employee although I've been told that if I flash the mysterious ID card with the Star Of David on it I'd actually get them for free. The thought of doing that has never crossed my mind though, I guess I still have some loyalty left.
Cycling to that part of London shows me how much things have changed since I used to make the same trip running errands for Ronnie and Reggie. Then I would regularly cycle from Vallance Road to Brixton to drop off the latest threat to the Richardsons, and most of the street signs would be in English. Now, particularly near Vallance Road it's as if I'm in a different world, and I've had to stretch my international language skills just a bit further. I've always had a knack for languages, well when you've had cause to visit 96% of the countries in the UN it comes in handy. Swahili, and Urdu were a breeze to pick up, struggled a bit with Australian and certain Scottish accents though.
We have a staff meeting today at the Hospital, these things are normally pretty boring, just running through trolley use that sort of thing, and I've always found that nobody worries if I sneak out while they're going on. In fact I could swear I sometimes hear a sigh of relief go up as I exit the door. I did sometimes make myself heard, but gave up when I thought nobody was listening to my ideas. With my oil pipeline building experience I offered to construct a pipeline from the geriatric ward direct into the drains here, that way they'd be no need to empty all the OAP's piss bags, just plumb them straight into the system. Never even got as far as the manager's door.
Never got around to picking up my 'Secret Agent' magazine over the weekend but I'll be off to the newsagents in Wimbledon as soon as I finish work, so if you're in the area and hear a helicopter or spot a sports bike with a Mossad symbol on the front, give me a wave.

Shalom