Are all coach drivers comedians?

And in other news...a major inconvenience at Victoria train station - not being able to pay to go to the loo. Hopefully they'll fix it soon.


I went over to Maidstone in Kent yesterday, to learn the ropes of a simple show that is produced for ITV at Maidstone Studios. It was an ok session, if quite long. The Calrec audio console is a familiar style and not unlike the last one I used at Ten in Melbourne.

My journey to Maidstone yesterday started in Poole, with a bus trip to London Victoria, then, seeing as they were doing `engineering works' at Victoria, I had to take the tube to Blackfriars and get on a train bound for Ashford, which conveniently enough dropped me a Maidstone East, which was the original plan. The ride out from London and back is pleasant - I like above-ground, overland train journeys, and generally feel quite relaxed at the end of them.
It was hot today on the bus from Victoria back to Poole. I guess there hasn't been an enormous market in the UK for mobile air-conditioning, and the driver did apologise for the fact that we were on an older coach which did not possess such air-cooling apparatus.
With the warm weather today, it was punter city in London, especially around The Palace.