The U.K. Times Online reports that a passenger rail service with one of the worst records for on-time performance has decided that style is more important than punctuality. First Great Western, which operates services from Paddington to South Wales and the West Country, has engaged Sally Crabtree, a Cornish poet, to perform at selected stations.
Crabtree, known in artistic circles as "the pink-wigged pocket Venus from Cornwall", travels with a copper tree hung with a variety of objects. Customers are invited to pick one, and she will read or compose a poem appropriate to what they have chosen.
She will take up her stance outside rush hours, so that poetry readings do not further interfere with an already vexed travelling environment.
Sounds like a good idea -- I'm not sure how I'd react to a "pink-wigged Venus" when vexed by a late train.
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