It’s a feature of me getting older but I’ve noticed a worrying trend towards things not being as advertised. Here are three that are troubling me this week.

Example One

A new bar called Steam and Rye, it’s a new venue from Nick House (guy behind Whisky Mist, Punch Bowl, Mahiki et al) and Kelly Brook. It’s themed as a tribute to 40’s Americana. So far so good, I looked at the website and the bar menu and it all looks great. However, unless I am going blind, you know what I can’t see on the menu? Rye whiskey.

Maybe it’s me but I would have expected a bar called Steam & Rye would have some cocktails on the menu using rye whiskey. Come on people, it’s in the name….

Example Two

The Guardian TV & Radio Blog. Because you know what it NEVER has? Any posts about radio programmes. The TV & Radio section has the odd review of a radio programme and there’s a monthly recap of The Archers by Nancy Banks-Smith but that’s pretty much all the radio it covers. Now I know that I am unusual in not having a TV and I enjoy reading  about TV programmes too it but it’s not a TV & Radio blog if it’s only about the TV. It’s a TV blog. I don’t mind if it is but don’t call it something it’s not. It can’t be about radio, if you never write anything about radio programmes.

Example Three

Good Service on the Piccadilly Line. Dear TfL, if I wait for a train and it arrives but I can’t get on it. That is not good service. If I manage to get on a train but have to travel with someone’s armpit rammed in my face because it’s so overcrowded that is not good service. It’s not a great customer experience to pay £1,424 for a years ticket to travel into work and have to stand for most of it, or to be late for work because of signal failure at Hammersmith three weeks in a row. That is no-one’s definition of good anything, let alone service. If what you actually mean is that the trains are running on schedule, say that before I lose my mind.