AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF SILENCE IN MY BLOG - I FINALLY DISCOVERED SOMEONE WHO READS IT. SO I NOW FEEL OBLIGED TO KEEP IT UPDATED.

Spent the day in Slough today. What a mind-numbingly boring place this is. Not the office - no - there are usually some interesting people in the office - it’s outside that I’m referring to. And it’s not that there aren’t any interesting people outside the office either - it’s the fact that there just aren’t any! That’s right - nobody. Nope - not a single soul. It’s as if Slough is just one gigantic car park - the only people you see outside the office are the people who are hurriedly walking to and from an office reception to a car. This is a far cry from Hammersmith. At least in Ham there are crowds of people crossing the road - or walking to and from the tube station - or queuing at the sandwich bar. At least there’s the man who speaks all day into his loudhailer about how the world is full of sinners and we should all repent (it’s funny how he only seems to come out when there is some sort of moral war going on). And then there are the bums who hang around outside the Broadway Shoppping Centre who are always looking for a “spare” cigarrate or “spare” change. (Surely they mean “could you spare a cigarette or spare some change”??). And then there’s the Broadway Shopping Centre security guards and cleaners who walk around all day trying to look busy.

Nope. There’s no such people in Slough. It’s just completely devoid of any human activity outside of those shiny revolving doors. I know so - at lunch time I walked all the way from the office to the petrol station on the corner of a major junction with the town-centre and the M4 motorway - singing Eminem’s “without me” rap song out loud - and there was nobody to hear me - nobody to think that I was some kind of wierdo. Zip. Not a single soul. It was disgustingly quiet - obscenely quiet …

“everybody only wants to discuss me
So this must mean I’m dis-gus-ting
But it’s just me, I’m just obscene“
Part of an Eminem rap-song that I always remember.