What is a train station? Since trains were invented they have stopped and started from railway stations, but now we have train stations. Today I heard it used on Miss Marples, by Miss Marples would you believe. It only goes to show how far the stories have deteriorated since boy writers began writing them for television. If television ever gave up reality programmes I would expect to hear the appalling words in some boy writer's revised version of Hamlet.
Our updated Alonah Reading Cambridge website is nearly up and running. All I have to do is get my web-builder chap to provide an auto -responder and we're there. Sadly he is finding that task very difficult. I have no idea why and he seems reluctant to tell me, which only reinforces my lifetime motto. 'If you want anything done properly do it yourself.'
I am carefully watching the Olympic Team GB medal tally. The experts tell us thirty five are expected. A politician forecast forty two, but that was based on the usual political mixture of hubris and ignorance so should be discounted. I fear for the thirty five medal tally.At the time of writing Team GB(Middle Classes) have done really well in Equestrianism, Water Sports and Cycling . Now we must depend on Team GB(The Rest). Could we be heading for the usual embarrassing disaster. I will be delighted to be proved wrong.