I Choose The wrong Way Home
I regularly have supper near Oxford Circus station, just as I did tonight.
To come back, I have a myriad number of ways.
1. I can take a 73 bus virtually all the way or change at the Angel for a 30, 38 or 56, which stop closer to my house. I use this route, when I’ve got a big parcel from John Lewis, as the 3 stop, is right outside the front door of the store.
2. I can take the Central line to Bank station and then take a 21, 76 or 141 bus.
3. A similar route is to go to St. Paul’s station and then a 56 bus.
4. I can take the Victoria line to Highbury and Islington station and then take a 30 or 277 bus.
5. Another route is to take Victoria lie to Kings Cross and then take a 30 bus to home.
On the other hand, one of the advantages of Kondon’s transport system, is that there are innumerable ways of getting from A to B.
The number of routes seems to keep growing.
Tonight, I tried to get home, using route 2, but there had been an accident, so the buses had virtually stopped running.
It was a very wrong choice.
In the end, I took a 43 to the Angel and theb git a 56 ti my house.
Keyhole Surgery For Gas Mains
I like this story from the Standard, as it shows how good design and clever technology can make the solving of everyday problems, quicker and easier. Here’s the first paragraph.
A £1m robot will today complete work repairing gas mains in London without having to dig a single hole in the street in a UK first that it is claimed will save thousands of hours of disruption to motorists.
It may have cost a lot, but how much did it save?
Does The Internet Lead Us To Strange Places?
This report on the BBC about the end of the GOCE satellite, was to me very much a must-read, as it covers a lot of my interests. It probably will make a lot of others think about the Falkland Islands too. But it was this paragraph that caught my eye.
American military data timed this event to have occurred at 00:16 GMT, or 21:16 local Falkland time – just as Bill, his wife Vicky, and dad, Tony Chater, were making their way home after spending the day with King Penguins.
I hadn’t realised that there were King Penguins on the islands. Looking them up in Wikipedia, it said that the biggest King Penguin colony is on Crozet Island, which is a French overseas territory.
There really are some amazing places in this world, some of which are virtually inaccessible.
The Anonymous Widower 