Reply to Rebecca #8

The tube, tea, drawings and mugs

Madam

I am obliged to offer my apologies for this late response to your letter. Unfortunately, a malignant Fate, to borrow a phrase from Dornford Yates, decreed that yesterday would be characterised by several things going wrong. My mood was not improved by the pain in my left leg. On Tuesday I visited the Science Museum in London to look at the Technici…