Plaster is off now, but still unable to put pressure on my leg and will be having weeks of physio. Will be interesting to see how rubbish the tube will be with my walking stick or one crutch which I'm told I will go down to in the next few weeks.



Will certainly be making use of my worn copy of The Way Out Tube Map. To those of you who've not come across this brilliant map I would say get one straight away. Basically it is a whole map of the tube but it tells you which carriage to sit in if you want to be nearest to the exit of the station you get off at. It is truly brilliant and has saved me walking half way or the whole way up a platform when I've been late for meetings. It is also highly impressive if you are travelling with someone and you say, "Oh let's just walk along a bit further up here, so we'll be near the exit on the way out", this only works if you've sneakily looked at the map beforehand and they will marvel at your knowledge of london and its tube exits.



Don't travel on the London Underground without it!

Got a request for a link swap today from Grumbletext - basically it's a site where you text (SMS) them all your moans about UK companies that have pissed you off or, generally you think give bad customer service, and have call centres operated by morons. You get chance to rave and rant, everyone else gets a chance to see them.



Then, apparently, when there's enough texts on a particular subject the guys at grumbletext create a news story about it and try to get it published in the wider media. So the company in question are shamed enough to reply or at least give and answer as to why they're so rubbish. Interesting concept. Let's see if we can make the London Underground the first Grumbletext success.

Oh the joys of not having to put up with tube travel. Thinking seriously about my last entry, I really don't miss not travelling on the tube. Particularly when you hear about stories like this:



"Rush hour London Underground passengers were trapped for over an hour this morning when a lift "spiralled out of control" on one of the network's busiest lines.



"Forty-five commuters packed into a lift heading down to the Piccadilly line platform at Russell Square were forced to switch to another lift when the one they were using became stuck at ground level.



"Tube staff herded 35 of the passengers into the second lift but that one also failed on its way down to the platform.



As the Piccadilly Line is my usual line, I'm really pleased to have missed this one. For more, check out today's Evening Standard



Nightmare!

Ho, hum, leg still in plaster and will be for another three weeks so no tube journeys. I almost miss them.......almost. But in case anyone missed the Central Line closure and the fact that you can claim refunds on your travel card for the inconvenience even if you don't normally travel on the line, check out Going Underground. As someone said in an email that's doing the rounds, this is free money.



Had another weblog which mentioned my blog today. I initially read this as though my blog was banal, but can now see this wasn't the intention.



However, I often worry about the boredom factor of my blog - see entry below. Problem is travelling on the tube every day is boring, there's no two ways about it. Sometimes you see interesting things, most of the time you don't. My main site is all of the interesting and funny things - this blog was intending to be the whole kit and kaboodle, warts and all. So you have a choice as to what you want to look at.

Sorry for lack of updates for the past week but I have a broken limb and therefore won't be much tube travel while I'm in plaster for the next five weeks. I slipped last Friday on some ice outside of a station (although not a tube station I hasten to add).



However in looking at my referral stats I came across another blog that gave me a good laugh today.



"I'd love to tell you about my delayed train journeys to and from London today, all the broken engines and so on but I came across the most boring weblog ever this week maintained by a woman who chronicles her journey to work everyday on the London Underground."



Cheers mate - watch out for more delayed boredom in the weeks to come.