I had forgotten how spoiled we are living in London with all these convenience services around. We spent the first few years here carrying our weekly shopping up stairs, down stairs until we could not feel our poor fingers anymore. You try dragging your weekly food shopping all over the public transport system and enjoy it? Walking down the aisles in the supermarket you think everything is a damn bargain and you grab it, before you know it, you’ve got a trolley filled up and two arms to carry it …

Earlier this week the Mayor of London (Boris Johnson) lifted the police recruitment freeze and pledged to have more police officers on the beat than when he started her mayoral term. The claim is that he “found” an extra £42 million pounds which he is redirecting to Scotland Yard to recruit more police officers. First question, where in the world did he find £42 million pounds after so many people in Government positions, lost their jobs? Not that I am complaining about an additional police presence on the streets, I …