I was having lunch in the dining room today, and I sat in front of a new person I've never seen before. We started off a conversation, and I learned that he was Mikhail (sp?) from Romania, and that he was around in London for a job interview.

After a pause in the conversation, he suddenly asked me, 'Are you a guitar player?'. I was surprised and more than a bit discomfitted, and replied in the affirmative. I asked him how he knew, and he said that he noticed my right-hand fingernails were long.

It's kind of like a secret sign for a mysterious brotherhood, that 'brothers' can recognise each other even when they don't know each other.

Fact of the day: there is apparently a Chinatown in Lagos, Nigeria!