I've been making masks at work today, for the work summer (masked) ball. I feel that my work is some kind of Women's Institute sometimes. (Not that we do crafts during working hours by the way, just during lunchtime)
I made a mask for me, and one for VH (can you guess which is which?). Unlike other people at work, who made plain masks for their other halves, I made something a bit more adventurous. A kind of pirate/bandit/musketeer mask. It will be the first time he meets my colleagues too. We might be lucky enough to get some real masks from an acquaintance of his tomorrow, in which case we won't need to wear these handmade ones.
I had a wonderful day out in london yesterday, it was so hot and sunny. I met my brother and we went to Oxford Street and Hamleys. I had never been to Hamleys before and must say it was exciting, worth the visit even if its all overpriced! HOWEVER i have to blog about trains now....basically i cannot understand how the tube service is still up and running, instead of a smooth running system, it seems to be collapsing under the weight of people there. I mean literally I was expecting to have a lovely day whizzing from one end of london to another, the reality is that by 3.30pm the trains are heaving with people, the doors actually squeeze shut past peoples squashed faces, most people are standing, ITS HOT, theres no air conditioning at all, when you get off theres a huge gap between the train and the pavement and if you are small you sort of have to do a mini leap to get off! People are all walking so fast and trains are whizzing past, if you happened to trip/lose balance/get knocked you may quite likely fall into the way of the train. Then when you are off theres a huge trek through tunnels getting to next place, loads of stairs up and down, massive escalators!!!!!!!! Oh the escalators, if they are broken which they frequently are then you have to walk all the way up or down them, not for the faint hearted, in the heat i was actally feeling dizzy. What happened to all the health and safety regulations??? what happened to disabled access??? Why are there no lifts!!! It seems the tubes designed solely for the single healthy fit person. They are totally prejudiced against the elderly, disabled, pregnant,mums with buggies, people with luggage! Why?? The only good thing is that people are so helpful, i had men (and women) offer to help with my buggy. I dont know why something isnt done to improve the service, especially in light of the recent press given to MP's greedy spending. It seems appalling. 
