I bet he missed the Eurostar twice cause his taxi is stuck in the traffic.
I myself experienced London when it's only raining a lot, and you're just stuck! And if you add the strike... Everybody took their car or got taxis... So lots of traffic.
Sometimes there's only half an hour within two Eurostar, so maybe that's how he managed to miss two... Anyway M please get yourself over here, no way there is no show tomorrow!