Slim possibilities…

The weather has turned Biblical of late, with wild storms raging overhead, and now comes the ominous discovery of two fault lines running under London that could cause a magnitude five earthquake.

British geography is far more dramatic that one might think. The islands of Arran, Mull and Skye are part of the remains of volcanoes that spewed lava and ash over northern Britain and Ireland millions of years ago.

The good news, however, is that if the two fault lines beneath the capital were to rub together, the sensation would be akin to standing on a platform between two passing trains, and there is only a one-in-a-thousand year chance of it happening at all. That’s about the same odds for those hypothetical trains to be running on time.