Day One Hundred and Seventeen - Outside Streatham Hill Station, SW16

I put "outside Streatham Hill station" as that's where I took the picture, but if I'd taken it anywhere else from Victoria to Crystal Palace it'd have looked the same as he didn't move a muscle all the way, just snored lightly from time to time. Who'd have thought the 2105 London Victoria - London Bridge (via Crystal Palace) could be so peaceful?

Day Eighty-Three - Somewhere between Streatham Hill and West Norwood Stations, SE27

Today's hexagram was 35, Prospering with transforming lines at 1 and 3. 'twas a successful journey as I had four seats to myself (very unusual at this time of day) and caught the bus without having to wait at Crystal Palace station so that I could go up to the triangle and pick up some chorizo for dinner. Sergio's had the one I wanted and I only had to wait about 30 seconds to get the bus back to my door. Nice.

On the discman today: AM - Van Der Graaf Generator The Box Disc 4 PM - Various Monterey International Pop Festival 1967 Disc 1

Day Forty-Seven - somewhere between Gipsy Hill and West Norwood

Ah, Sport magazine. Free every Friday morning from a smiley lady outside the station.

For a few years during the nineties there was a great general sport magazine called Total Sport (edited by Danny Kelly, apparently once married to Hazel O'Connor! I didn't know that) which covered a variety of sports in an in-depth, interesting and informative way. It failed because British magazine buyers apparently can't focus on more than one sport at a time, or at least won't part with money to do so. When Sport came along late last year I thought that we might have a successor to that late lamented mag. And free! My favourite price, as that attractive older woman in the Somerfield advert used to say.

How wrong I was. It's just an excuse to sell advertising like all the rest. Articles are short and facile and most are flogging something either implicitly or explicitly ("Preview Sport - brought to you by L'Oreal Paris Men Expert", "Mazda and The London Triathlon").

Best of all is the regular feature on the wife or girlfriend of a sports star - this week, Bec Cartwright, wife of Lleyton Hewitt and apparently ex-Home And Away (I wouldn't know, I'm a Neighbours man myself). I couldn't work out whether this was a sop to the ladies or an excuse to show a pretty lady in a bikini, and then I read the closing line of the first para:

"A nubile young thing with a tenuous link to sport who looks good in their pants? Bingo! Woof!! Etc!!!"

I think that should be the new name for the feature, actually - "A nubile young thing with a tenuous link to sport who looks good in their pants - brought to you by Flashermac Raincoats".

But perhaps the ultimate giveaway about the whole farrago is that the magazine took a one month summer break. Not enough sport in summer for them to cover? No, not enough commuters for them to inflict their advertising on during the traditional holiday season.

Back after the Bank Holiday with some carefree posts about kittens and fluffy things to counterbalance this week's heaviosity.

On the discman today: AM - Wire Chairs Missing PM - Wire 154

Day Twenty-Three - Somewhere between Watford Junction and Rugby

I did go home after work today, but instead of going to my normal SE19 home I was accompanied by my betrothed (pictured) to the family seat at Wilson Magna to attend to family business. Virgin Pendolinos are fast but they don't half shake you about.

On the discman today: AM - Michael Nesmith - Nevada Fighter and Tantamount To Treason (train so delayed I managed to listen to both on the way to work) PM - Kraftwerk Autobahn Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music and wedding talk.

Day Seventeen - Pulling into West Norwood Station, SE27

The antisocial youth that hacked these lines out of the seat in front of me was so pleased with his work that he signed it with his initials.

Mind you, I think his composition is quite good. And if he was an antisocial youth he probably would have left a tag rather than his initials. Hmm. I have a CD coming out that needs a cover picture. I wonder if "DG" is available for commissions?

On the discman today: AM - Stereolab Live Peel sessions at the QEH, 3 June 1999 PM - nothing, as I went to the cricket