Lively protest outside Brighton Station today by bicycle riders who are no longer allowed to take their bikes on the train to London. Asinine new ruling from the train company which has justly inflamed local feeling.

On the train reading a book called Bad Thoughts, A guide to clear thinking, by Jamie Whyte. He is a philosopher who uses his training in logic to prick balloons of bad argument in a spirited and entertaining way.Enjoyed the bit about empty words, attacking jargon and meaninglessness in academic and business writing. This is a bête noir for me too. Whyte saves particular scorn for the word leverage, which is used constantly by saps in business. Personally I get more incensed by obfuscational academic writing. When the writer appears to be trying to prove their intelligence (or hide the paucity of their ideas) in high falutin' language, rather than pass on knowledge, which is surely the point of them being academics in the first place.

Work, and the office is not being heated properly for some reason. Cracked through quite a bit of work with Gnome, despite feeling decidedly irritable.

Read one of two poems from another book I bought yesterday with Anton, called Never by Jorie Graham. I bought it on impulse and her work seems excellent. It is top when you discover a poet you like.

MJ doing flipper the dolphin impressions today, and claiming that flipper could speak like humans.

Walked at lunchtime along the grey overcast river and took the photo below.