The following is all fantasy (including names), fired by the spark of a thought that went through my brain. At a work-related conference, it was an early start, numerous boring talks and by 2pm it was really starting to drag. I welcomed the afternoon coffee break with open arms and went in search of a caffeine fix. As I did, I noticed a colleague of mine, Jane, who had arrived earlier, sitting on a sofa in the communal ar...

After thinking about it for a while, I had saved up the cash and had decided to get myself a proper made-to-measure suit for those days at work when I really wanted to make an impression. I did wear suits at work sometimes but having a 33” waist (and trousers coming in either 32” or 34”) meant that while jackets fitted okay, the trousers never fitted as well as they could. So I’d gone along to a tailor in my hometown that...

The heat of the day had passed, but London was having the last laugh as the buildings gave up all the heat they had absorbed through the day. As was my want in my summer commute, I had changed out of my works clothes in to board shorts, linen shirt and flip flops in a forlorn attempt to make the journey home more bearable. I was in my own world contemplating my evening and when I noticed the girl standing off to my left h...