23 January (Part 1) - On the Abbey Wood stump
I’ve
always been an early riser and can usually be seen picking up a newspaper in Wilton Road by 7 a.m. This I
discovered today was not early enough to escape the UKIP guys who had been at nearby Abbey Wood station for an
hour already. Here they are waiting for a crowd of commuters descending from the bus stop above the station.
With Abbey Wood providing ten or more London bound trains an hour at that time
in the morning I doubt many commuters were prepared to stop and chat, but at
least their newspaper was disappearing at a reasonable rate of knots.
I discovered yesterday that my copy of Microsoft Outlook had been sending
only part of what I had written in emails. It seems that any message that took
long enough to write to trigger the auto save only sent out the portion written
up to that point, so this week my MP, the lads at Bexley UKIP and the Bexley
Action boys (plus innumerable others) have all received incomplete, badly
spelled, possibly incoherent, messages from me - and not a single one of them
remarked on it.
So I have just upgraded my copy of MS Office to a later one. Turned out to be a
totally painless operation and with luck my emails will look a little less like gibberish.