New world record attempt

The record:
In a couple of weeks' time I am going to attempt to break a world record. That is, I am going to attempt to celebrate the same festival, in 2 synagogues, some 200 miles apart!

Yes, on 22nd Tishri, 5769 my plan is to attend erev Simchat Torah at Sinai Synagogue in Leeds, followed by shacharit at Etz Chaim, aka Finchley Reform


The problem:
The World Wide Web is brilliant. It is quite possibly the only concept whose abbreviation is an oxymoron. I can tell you're not with me at this point so I'll elucidate: look at your watch and say "World Wide Web". Just over one second to enunciate these three words? Now say "WWW". If this took you even twice as long then you should consider attempting your own world records

The World Wide Web is not, of itself, the problem. However it has enabled me to determine, in about the time it takes to say "WWW", that there is barely half an hour between the scheduled end of the service at Sinai, and the departure of the last direct train back to London.


How you can help:
Everyone knows the concept of 6 degrees of separation, and the challenge of using up half these degrees to connect to anyone else in the Jewish world. So please, use whatever influence you may have to help:

1. ensure the service starts and finishes promptly


2. persuade the minicab driver not to make a mess of the connection


3. the traffic between LS8 and LS1 to flow smoothly between between 8pm and 9pm


4. my spiritually inebriated corpus get into a minicab in an orderly fashion


5. me know I am not just talking to myself, by making a comment on this blog!

Chag sameach!