It began on the tube and ended in the future...

What is more annoying than someone sitting in the seat that you wanted on the tube...someone sitting in the seat next to it.

I mean, you can't go and sit next to a stranger on the tube when there are a lot of empty seats about.

When I first moved to London, I was told, in the way you are when you're naïve and in a new place that only tourists sat in the seats next to the doors. After living here for six years, I now know that this is bullshit. They are the coveted seats, the ones with the pane of glass to lean on. Now I get annoyed when people sit in the seat next to them and in turn, I get annoyed that I am annoyed.

The laws of the tube are wild an dangerous. It's a place where Al Capone would have run riot and had heavies around each corner extracting a fee for a seat. It is a seemingly safe mode of transport nowadays. The 80/90's were apparently a rough time for the tube, wooden flooring on the trains, rats, muggings and fear. Now though I would recommend it to most though I would also implore people to take a bottle of water too as it gets very hot a lot of the time.

I'm going to see Avatar in 3D tonight at the IMAX! Whoop! I've seen the film and loved it but I've only seen it in 2D on a normal television and so it should be an experience.

I am in the process of preparing a proposal for the charity/NFP (Not for profit) that I am starting. It's initial aim is to fund he breakfast club at a school in East London but after that I hope to get restaurants on board to provide cooking lessons for parents. I am going to try and secure the funding for the breakfast club first and then embark on the rest though as that is a lot more ambitious.

I have just submitted my first piece for the new football site, Column10. It's being run by Rohan Ricketts, an English footballer playing in the lower rungs of the German leagues at the moments. I am excited by this because it's another chance to bump up my portfolio of recent writing.

I must also report a recent musical find. While shopping at Columbia Road flower market last Sunday, I stumbled across a busker who despite an awful band with a tuba playing down t street, still produced something a little bit magical. I bought her EP and I've played it non stop since. It's really fantactis. She is called Brooke Sharkey...google her, she'll come up. It reminded a lot of when I first heard Angus and Julia Stone play all those years ago.

In upcoming news, I have interviews lined up with Tony Hawks, author of 'Around Ireland with a Fridge', Louise and the Pins, a great folky band who are supporting Laura Marling on tour and the actress Kathryn Drysdale who has been in Vanity Fair, Benidorm and 2pints of lager and a packet of crisps. Fun times!
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