Well after the first day, it seems almost mandatory that I write something at least, given the fact that throughout the day I’ve been asked “You’re working on a bank holiday, why?” just to overlook said fact really.

In fact this morning started out rather slowly, after the night before when I arrived late, and had spent about 20 minutes on the famous (apparently) roof garden of the Hotel Urban, and crying over the fact that a small bottle of beer cost 9 euros.

I started out not wanting to wake up, business as usual you might agree, but it was only the fact that the alarm sounded different and the fact that the room looked different that I realised I wasn’t in Kansas any more.

I could into more detail of the stages of man that is the morning routine of fumbling about in the dark, but I’ll leave it there.

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Well seeing as I am currently at Heathrow Terminal 3, along with what seems to be the rest of London right now, maybe the Notting Hill carnival scared everyone or something, I have managed to park myself down with the laptop and for the first time in ages, at least update this magical muse of the world with something of substance.

I had an inclination of doing so while here anyway before the brown-trousers-time that is the flight to Madrid, but the timing came around so quickly it suprised me.

I had reached the airport in good time, wandered through all the fancy check-in thing, pushing buttons, scanning different things, and then after being hand raped by the UK Border control people, you reach the DMZ that is the “Duty Free” area.

I reached the level of utter boredom within 12 minutes, a new record for loitering around an airport. Simply put, unless you are in the market for overly priced booze, ciggies or electric gear which is cheaper to get at Play.com, your mind starts dying very quickly.

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Yes, some people have been in contact wondering where I am right now as there has been nothing on most of the sites I tend to abuse like twitter, facebook and even the mighty OohSometimes.com Well, I’ve been working a lot this week, and then still had a ton to do on the weekend.

Therefore Saturday evening and today has meant really today was my weekend away from thinking about SQL Server, Anything that’s broke, anyone moaning about their useless things being broke….blah blah blah etc.

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There are certain times in our lives where we wonder if we even should have bothered getting out of bed, lived off the bed lice and then die of boredom with our hands round our genitils, being unable to produce any more liquid from any opening on our bodies.

To some, that’s the ideal living, except for the death part of course, but with the behaviour and level of stupidity I see in London, sometimes it does make me think.

To top it all off, as the day had already been filled with various pauses for thought, I actually went to Greggs the bakers today. Now, to those around the world who do not know the typical UK street shops, it’s a chain of bakers who seem to pride themselves on selling sandwiches and various pastry products all at the same luke warm temperature.

Now examine the below picture;

It seems having given away the fact that there is cheese in the Sausage, Bean and Cheese melt, they felt it of great importance to write “contains cheese” on the same sign.

Forgive me, but if that’s not the stuff of legend, I don’t know what is. So Greggs are certain the melts contain cheese, but as for the rest of what’s in them, they don’t know?

Welcome to London.