String theory

On the day: 
07/03/2013 

On the way: 
Back at the station on a drizzly morning, his legs swing loosely in slim-fit grey trousers teamed today with a neat navy raincoat. Neat. It's how the snappiest City marionettes are dressed this damp season. 
His phone is in one hand, tablet in the other, but neither are receiving the attention to which they have become accustomed. His head drops forward, lifelike, as though his eyes have noticed something on the platform paving. 
No. Oh no. It's his shoes. 
His knee joints fold and his legs form a diamond as his hand drops down to flick a bead of water from black suede uppers. 
Really?  
Well that's gone and broken the illusion. Even a puppet would know not to wear suede in this kind of weather.

On the pod: 
Like Janis - Rodriguez 

On the front page: 
Huhne and Pryce face jail over speeding lies (The Times) 

On the subject: http://andhisthoughtsarefullofstrangers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/strung-up.html