Great Western Coffee Shop

An email from Transport for London just popped into my mailbox with a subject line stay at home ... what strange times we are in.  And it reminded me of the animal in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - bred to perish.   Perhaps not the best of parallels, this whole evening out.

But - what a marvellous show.  I can recall, in the spring of 1978, driving up the M1 late at night after a long day and evening working in London and being spellbound as rocking with laughter at the same time; home not far off the motorway, and not going into home until the show had finished.



Remarkable times. Working in London (moonlighting from my main job) with a remarkable scientist researching bottle design - what is strong, what people will pick.  I was quite young, he was a few years older than me - a real pleasure of a person to work with.  He knew he stood for parliament against Michael Portillo - on researching that in the last few minutes I'm reminded of his background.  See here (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=23gRCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT93&lpg=PT93&dq=Andreas+Polydrou+unilever&source=bl&ots=HyBp6V9mnX&sig=ACfU3U0qLD-QaEHGqLWFhqKYDSjcwP9Rqw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV8fvNqrPoAhXDoVwKHVouC-EQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Andreas%20Polydrou%20unilever&f=false). The Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the mass production of lemon curd.  Funny how the wwhole world links on just 2 or 3 degrees of separation - should be a lesson to us at present.