A 72-hour strike on London Undergound was called off last night by the RMT Union after an improved pay offer was made. It was due to start at midday on Wednesday 20th August.
1,000 track, signal and train maintenance staff working for Tube Lines were due to walk out. Tube Lines is responsible for running the Piccadilly, Northern and Jubilee lines.
Drat, there goes that “working from home” stint to watch the Olympics on TV…
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Let’s get this blog rolling…
Something non-political and non-controversial to start with maybe…
A comment on something from Metro would be nice, but it’s Saturday…
Aah, found a copy of Metro I stuffed in my bag on Monday
Here we go…
Something from the Quiz page caught my attention…
Thick and black and savoury,
Eating this takes bravery!
On the tongue its taste is hot,
The jar looks like a cooking pot.
Well apart from the third line I’d say that describes Marmite pretty well! A Marmite lover might be inclined to use hot in place of great, but those that hate it would probably think that salty would be a better description!
But wait.. the Wikipedia entry on Marmite shows that in 2000 the noted lateral thinker Edward de Bono advised the U.K Foreign Office that the Arab-Israeli conflict might be due, in part, to low levels of zinc found in people who eat unleavened bread, a known side-effect of which is aggression. He suggested shipping out jars of Marmite to compensate.
Damn politics gets in everywhere… doh!
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