How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

theatremiss Very sorry for you. The trains in the last few months have been a nightmare. If it's not strikes it's engineering and if it's not engineering it's lines down/broken rails/points failures/trees down/bodies on the line, etc. etc. It's got to the stage where it feels like a miracle if one's trains are actually running on time.

I’ve only been to London once this year and I only did that because it was for Sunset Blvd. I’ve saved many hundreds of pounds as a result. Putting aside the cost of tickets when you can’t take advantage of short notice deals, if travel difficulties continue and if hotels continue to rip people off then folks like me will just stop going and will spend our money locally. You just end up thinking “how badly do I want to see that really?”. It’s a shame.

And now for us who live in/tube distance we have the marches to contend with on Saturdays. I’m surprised the theatres and restaurants etc aren’t saying anything about the disruption. Well, not surprised.. 

Woooo 1000th post!

Not seen that sketch in years.
She had so much more to give, tragic loss.
Without doubt my favourite comic of all time.

On the diet theme:

"Sandra, if you're going into town gerrus a raspberry yoghurt. If they haven't got raspberry gerrus som'at else."
"I couldn't get you raspberry yoghurt, so I got you meat 'n' potato pie instead. Is that alright?"

Isn't it about time someone started making windscreen wipers for glasses. - Elton John had some.

When you get a message from your brother - 'Can I call you? Nothing urgent.'

You sigh, and think 'What has she done now?'.

She being our mother. And she's in hospital but seems fine.

Can only wait till I get an update later, but there is no urgency of me needing to fly over.

Hope mum is ok. We all hate that call don’t we….pit of the stomach stuff. 

Two things I expect from a Hotel no matter what the budget. Clean. Safe.

I moved out of London 2 years ago but travel into my London Bridge office twice a week. Occasionally, once a month at least, I stay at a hotel, "do" a show and have two days back to back. Stayed at a Wembley hotel on Tuesday night that I'd stayed at 5 times previously (October 2022 - March 2023) - I stopped staying there as last room I got was a bit ropey and the exterior fabric of the building was, well, awful (they'd removed the cladding on the outside of the building and I kept thinking, they'll sort it out and 18 months on it's exactly the same). Maybe it was time for a revisit, I thought, it's only for a couple of hours sleep, I thought. Didn't go to a show after all, being really tired after a 6am start. Booked in at 7pm with the firm intention if the room was rubbish I'd ask for another. No, room was OK but hot - took my shirt off, went for a wee in bra and jeans. And heard the room door open, mens voices, and the door shut again.

Oh boy did I let rip at reception (face to face) who'd put the next arriving guests into my room. I got a "sorry" and a "very sorry" in the face to face, and a call to my room later offering me free breakfast. Free breakfast offered again next morning when I saw another "manager". But I doubt I'll ever walk into a hotel room again and not put a shed load of furniture in front of the door the minute I get in.

*No I didn't have the free b*st*rd breakfast!  Probably lifelong trauma being mid-wee and strange men walking in...

OMG TBH I think free stay forever with entire family would be inadequate compensation. And a report to the London tourist people, the hotel industry and maybe the police. If this is recorded event then police will have something to go on if anything bad happens. Not funny, not to be dismissed. The person entering your room had key/card and could have entered again at any time. Who knows if he gave it back? I watch a lot of tec/murder stuff and what looks simple often isn’t . Yes, goes the other way but why chance that?