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From Slough to Eternity
Sometimes, I get truly surprised by what turns up in my inbox.
Normally, it’s a little bit of praise, most often it’s some really sickening praise followed by a request, and then there are the other times.
And here’s a little story to explain...
Robert’s
Odyssey-Capturing the Moment
After a week long holiday in Scotland I had a few days in London before returning home and for me having been in London numerous times before there was just one place to go . . . The Office.
I traveled from my hotel in the heart of Mayfair on the Tube from Green Park to Paddington Station where I caught a train to Slough. The scenery was breathtaking or perhaps it was the whiff of the rubbish stacked along the way. After walking out of the station I saw the back of the Unisys building featured on the opening sequence. Believe it or not someone then asked me if I knew where the bus station was. Of course remembering the opening scenes from the show, I pointed in the direction of the Unisys building and sure enough a 100 yards away there was the most famous bus station in all the UK, Brunel.
After a few quick holiday snaps I boarded a bus and was off on the ten minute ride down the A4 to Slough Trading Estates. Lovely town Slough, Mr. Betjeman was wrong, it is fit for humans. I got off the bus and then in a very un-American fashion walked a quarter mile or so to Crossbow House the facade of The Office. Oh if only I hadn't wasted all those years in medical school and just studied the price of Opti-Bright Laser Copy Paper (Two forty a gramme. Check the list). A couple more pictures later I was back to the bus station where I walked under the roadway to the famous roundabout. It is times like this that I am happy we gained independence (no offense).
As you can see the weather was "perfick". . . damp, cool and cloudy with light drizzle. Perhaps the best part of the odyssey however, for this ugly American was hearing the other stations being called off upon returning to Paddington. . . Reading, Aldershot, Bracknell, you know, Yately, Winnersh, Taplow. . . Burfield.
Many thanks to the webmaster for this site who was kind enough to allow me to share my trip to Slough.
Me again
And there you have it! Rob’s words, not mine, not even the thanking me bit, which I would have had to stick on anyway, because who would suggest that I don’t deserve it eh?
Here’s the last couple of pics for you perusal, and remember, if he can do it, you can to. But you won’t get a page about it, there can be only one.
