I saw t4's Steve Jones on an escalator.

A young Frenchman named Jason('s Father) has requested the honour of becoming my first client. Jason and I are hopefully about to embark on a thrice weekly voyage of discovery spanning the next month - what a fortunate fellow.

Perhaps as a consequence of this rare piece of encouragement, or perhaps to address what I feel is a general melancholia, I think I'll list some things that I like about living in London.

1. I like it when a tube arrives at the platform at exactly the same time as I do - secondary to that I also very much enjoy leaping through the closing doors, and watching other people just missing a train on which I am already seated.

2. I like seeing chauffeurs in Mercedes Maybachs trying to squeeze past the millions of bendy-busses (that's 18 metres worth of bendy-bus) that wheeze around the city centre.

3. I like walking really fast while pretending to Tourists that I know exactly where I'm going (this is facilitated by hubris, my phone's access to googlemaps and sheer luck).

4. I like how the southern attitude towards Scotland and the North of England - which are, you would think, synonymous - reinforces my anti-union sentiments. Quite honestly if they're not going to take our money in their McDonald's and Primarks then we shouldn't bother sending it to their parliament.

That is, perhaps, it.