Day: 8 October 2003

I love it when I get intelligent comments like this left on the site. It makes it all feel worthwhile.

Why don’t Americans[1] write down times in the same broken order that they use for dates? You say “ten past eleven”, so why isn’t that 10:11? [1] And that raises another question – why isn’t there a noun that means “people from the USA?”

My stepdaughter needs to travel from home (zone 3) to college (zone 1) every day. As she’s 16 she is too old to get child rate fares on London Underground. Therefore we’ve bought her a monthly travelcard[1] which cost just under £90. Then last week she comes home with a form from London Transport which… Continue reading Young People’s Travel