Back in London

Was kind of sorry to leave Brighton. It's got much of the same feel as Bristol has. So today's a little less glamorous that it has been.

First stop London Victoria. Then cab up to Paddington where I am now. In a few minutes I'll be jumping on the Heathrow Express to ... you guessed it London Heathrow. I shouldn't complain really. I've got loads of work to get through and somewhere pretty uninspiring should be just the ticket.

Funnily enough I've come up against my battery issue a little early on today. I'm not sure if I didn't properly charge my laptop last night, or if the work I've been doing this morning used an inordinate amount of power. Getting out the cab at Paddington my first job had to be to find a socket to feed my laptop.

I crazily assumed that as one of the main audiences for the Heathrow Express has to be the business traveller, they'd certainly provide a plug socket for them. Oh, how wrong I was. I jumped on the train, had a quick search around and had to jump straight off.

I know it may sound a little dramatic, but today I have no literally no spare time. Losing 20 minutes stuck on a train with no power would cause all sorts of headaches. As an alternative I decided to find a place for a coffee, power up for 40 minutes or so and get a later train. Unbelievably it took me 20 minutes of walking around Paddington to find an available socket. So frustrating.

Right, enough ranting about plug sockets. I can't believe I'm obsessing about them so much! Time to get on with some of that graft ...