It has to be the altitude.

Daily journey to work just reminds me how much I hate the tube. Aaagh. However, a non-tube journey to the Wharf from Battersea would take forever, something I am due to find out all about when the strikes happen. Joy.

But enough whining about tubes, there was a reason for posting.
A few days ago, over on stupid_free, there was a long rambling discussion about Anglophiles and people who don't seem to realise that not all of England is London. I suppose I can kind of see why you may think along these lines if you're not from old Blighty, dim as it may be. It causes no fear.

What does cause fear is the conversation I had yesterday, with a colleague born in the UK and living in London. Said only other woman in the office was expressing the growing fear she felt living in London, what with crime rates and such things, it's so terrible, people get shot every day here on the streets of LONDON. Most of this is being background noise until she utters the following:

"See, someone's just been shot in Letchworth and there was that boy shot and killed outside that pub the other day..."

I blinked for several seconds, as I tried to work out if I'd heard right. "Um, V, you do realise that neither of those things you just mentioned happened in London, yes? Okay, Letchworth isn't hugely far away, but the kid shooting? Completely different city?"

"Oh, as far as I'm concerned they're all the same place. London, Manchester, Liverpool, the same city."

And now I'm starting to wonder if this is why she's late for work every morning.