' Volleyball, it was a blocking move; I landed badly'

This morning I bumped into one of Tony's neighbours: a girl who was on crutches; her right leg was in a special plaster. She said the accident happened while playing volleyball ;she was trying to do a blocking move and landed badly.

' I had all my bags stolen at the Reading Festival '

A guy at Clapham Junction station talking about the Reading Festival he had recently been to; he had all his bags stolen despite all the apparent security there.

' We're going to pilot it in Brazil and China '

Nathan a member of the Arts Team at the British Council in London was talking about his ' Museum ' project and said that they were going to pilot it in Brazil and China in September ;possibly also in Thailand and Malaysia in the future.

' What a load of bullshit ! '

One of the British Council's staff at the office in London commenting on the phone call she'd just had with someone from the IT department from GSD ( Global Service Desk ) she had called them asking them to resolve an issue she had with OUTLOOK.

Although the member of staff had been patient and polite explaining her problem l after she had put down the phone she couldn't believe what rubbish she had been told : basically the person trying to resolve the problem didn't know what they were talking about in fact it was ' a load of bullshit !'.

' It's despicable ! ' ' Fifteen Pounds for the boy '

Today I met Philip for lunch in Covent Garden he commented that ' it's despicable ' that Sarah hadn't replied to the emails that me and Cormac had sent her.

At the end of his performance in the piazza in Covent Garden gave the little boy who had been helping him fifteen pounds!

' I'm a student, I'm doing a summer job '

The young girl on the street corner of the junction opposite the Falcon Pub in Clapham Junction who has been giving out flyers the past few days re a special offer at the local hairdresser told me she's a student doing a summer job.

' It's my birthday'

At the Malaysian restaurant in China Town a woman from Kuala Lumpur was having a birthday lunch with her friend ,also from Kuala Lumpur. The restaurant was quite crowded today as almost all the tables were soon full.

' Pack it in ! '

This morning a mother was telling off her children who were running around the ticket office area of Clapham Junction train station; apart from ' Pack it in ' she could have also used the expressions:
 'stop messing around' ', 'stop playing around ' etc. in other words ' behave yourselves  '.
A foreigner passing by might have wondered what exactly she wanted the kids to pack and what in!