Makeovers

I find that Earlsfield is in the grip of its second major makeover in what seems like as many months. Network Rail must be bursting with money to spend on such stuff.

But, to be fair, it may well be that the additional costs consequent on doing the two rather different jobs consecutively rather than concurrently are small relative to the total and there may well be simple operational imperatives - like continuing to get people into the station to catch their trains - which were hard to work with.

PS: before visiting Earlsfield, we had been discussing the odd absence of Russian films from the DVD scene - apart from things like ancient Eisensteins. Messrs. Google and Amazon must have been listening as my first email of Christmas was an invitation to buy a blood and guts DVD from Russia, a blood and guts DVD which looks like a 2008 retread of the tale of St. Alexander Nevsky. I wonder what he did, apart from killing lots of people, to qualify himself as a saint? In any event I think we have already filled our quota for this sort of thing with 'Game of Thrones' , Series I.