Working at the FT

Last week I had a day working at the FT which was thoroughly bamboozling, although the scariest part of this day was my lunch break.

I left the Financial Times building and found my way to the embankment where I quickly found the food shop EAT. (the full stop is part of the name, annoyingly. The following lower case 'a' is not a mistake) as the looming rain clouds were slowing beginning a gentle release of their load.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/restaurants/images/040319_eatbankside.jpg

I strode into the shop and selected a steak and cheese toastie and joined the queue. A foreign woman soon approached me and demanded I handed over said toastie, which she quickly disappeared with. I was then called to the service desk and I was greeted my another foreigner, this time a man. He seemed to think that I was having vegetable soup for lunch, as he continually asserted 'vegetable soup' at my mystified face while I, in my bemusement and fear, could only mutter out the unsure assertion that a woman had taken my steak and cheese toastie. He then found a ham and cheese toastie and decided I must eat that and I continued to tell him he was mistaken in my nervous way before he gave up and told me to just go and retrieve the snack I so desired. I, to this day, have no idea what that bloody woman did with my lunch, but I wish she could have let me walk it the 4 yards from queue to counter.

After my awful experience along the river, I returned to the FT and set to work on a video about the economy or something - I still don't know what the woman was talking about, see if you can decipher it. This video's now up on the ft.com and you should give it a look, even if it's just to see that I'm the credited producer of it. How weird's that?

Give it a lovely little click for the actual website

I also updated the 'Most popular in FTfm' section, which is a little less exciting, but still cool.

Clickity click

I am returning tomorrow, so I shall report back if I do anything else exciting.

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