ONLY 5 working days left of ticketing ... yeeeehhhhh ... Dublin next weekend with my team .... back for one day of work ..... then off to Majorca to lay in the sun for a week - ahhh life is GRAND !!! This email came around at work this week and its so on the nail in some points about being a "Londoner"......

1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which one.

2. You have never been to The Tower of London or Madame Tussauds but love Brighton.

3. Hookers, drunks and the homeless are invisible to you.

4. You step over people who collapse on the Tube.

5. You've considered stabbing someone.

6. Your door has more than three locks.

7. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

8. You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.

9. You're paying 1,200 a month for a studio the size of a walk-in wardrobe and you think it's a "bargain".

10. Shopping in suburban supermarkets and shopping malls gives you a severe attack of agoraphobia.

11. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the UK pay in rent.

12. You pay 3 quid without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28p.

13. You actually take fashion seriously.

14. You have 27 different take-away menus next to your telephone.

15. The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.

16. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

17. Your idea of personal space is no one actually physically standing on you.

18. 50 quid worth of groceries fit in one plastic bag.

19. You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.

20. You don't hear sirens anymore.

21. You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's air/water quality and what it's doing to your insides.

22. You live in a building with a larger population than most towns.

23. Your cleaner is Portuguese, your grocer is Somali, your butcher is Halal, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your laundry guy is Filipino, your bartender is Australian, your favourite restaurateur is Greek, the watch seller on your corneris Senegalese, your last cabbie was African, your newsagent is Indian and your local English chippie owner is Turkish....and your local bobby came fresh of the boat from South America.

24. You wouldn't want to live anywhere else until you get married.

25. You roll your eyes and mumble 'for f**k's sake...' at the news that someone has thrown themselves under a tube train.