I suppose this encourages mindfulness and jazzes up the little grey cells?

[oursin]

Am still being thrown most mornings, as mentioned heretofore, by the fact that there is now a chain across entrance to pub forecourt and I cannot, as has been my wont for some 20+ years, just cut straight across. (Not without falling over the damn thing and doing myself a mischief.)

Have also been abruptedly jolted from my wonted mindless path to work because Euston station management, in its wisdom, has switched over the up/down escalators from southbound Northern Bank/Victoria platforms so that the up escalator is now on the right. Which means not having to cut across the flow of downwards traffic; except, I start to do this anyway before recovering myself and turning sharp right.

This is probably good for the ageing brain cells in the way that doing crosswords and sudoko (neither of which I actually do) is supposed to be useful remedial gymnastics for the mind.

Still kind of irritating, though.

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I don't know, but it still throws me that the BL no longer opens the side gate onto Midlands Road, so that when I'm coming from King's Cross, I have to come in by the conference centre. It wounds my mindlessness.

[hhw]

a former colleague of mine, who volunteers at the local zoo, refers to this sort of thing as "enrichment" (which is what she called it when the circulation area was rearranged and staff kept going to the wrong place and having to backtrack to find the new location for reserved items).