The Greenway Is Open Again
The Greenway is now open again after the Olympics and I walked it from Hackney Wick station to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station, taking these pictures as I walked.
I had a coffee at the ViewTube on the way. It’s changed hands, but it’s still as good as ever.
London Is Going T*ts Up
Judging by the Christmas adverts everywhere, it certainly is.
You see them on bus stops, buses and inside Underground stations.
Galettes With The Precision And Care Of A Surgeon
I haven’t had a crepe or galette in over fifteen years. But I bought one from this stall in Camden Market.
It was well-worth waiting for. I won’t wait as long next time.
As you can see the gluten-free galettes are made from buckwheat flour.
Why the surgical reference? Go and have your delicious pancake ask the guys; one French and one Spanish.
Guys like this really show up most chains of fast food, as what they are – purveyors of toilet fodder!
Not Monaco, But Hackney!
I took this picture in the sun this morning.
Not Monaco, But Hackney!
As you can see the location is rather given away by the Hackney Empire.
Soft Staffies
It may be cold in London today, but I’ve seen several Staffordshire Bull Terriers with coats on.
Has the breed got that soft now?
I’ve Now Got A New Ceiling
My hall had terrible lighting, so I decided to put a false one in to hold some decent lights and be able to take out Jerry’s awful wall lights.
You can see the lights in one of the pictures.
All it needs now is to be plastered and have the lights fitted.
More New Universities
We’ve just had a whole new set of universities created, as the BBC reports here.
I would have thought we had enough. On the other hand Cornwall gets its first university and other colleges like the Royal Agricultural College are upgraded.
It’s Parky, But The Radiant Heater Is On!
It’s very cold, but the sun is out and although, I’ve no heating upstairs in the house, where I live most of the time, it’s warming up with the sun.
The origin of parky is a bit obscure. Some say it’s northern, but then my parents in North London used it.
Christmas Never Changes
Last year, I posted this called Christmas, Bloody Christmas.
It doesn’t appear that this year is going to be any better. Although, I suspect, I could be able to get to the football at Charlton on Boxing Day. That is if the buses decide to run!
I should also be able to get to Ipswich for the New Year’s Day match against Brighton, but I won’t bank on it, as the train drivers will probably go on strike to annoy me. At least there doesn’t appear to be any engineering work this year.
Do Actors Sometimes Regret Their Early Roles?
Dame Diana Rigg is a well-respected actress and has appeared in many high-class productions. But there are performances in her past, that she might like to downplay. C and I saw her in the infamous 1970 production of Anelard and Heloise with Keith Michell, which was noted for its full frontal nudity. Everybody leaned forward at the appropriate moment. Wikipedia describes her performance in the play as follows.
A return to the stage and a nude scene with Keith Michell during Abelard and Heloise in 1970 led to a notorious description of her as ‘built like a brick basilica with insufficient flying buttresses’, by the acerbic critic John Simon.
She did of course star as Emma Peel in The Avengers in the 1960s. Some clips on YouTube are interesting to say the least. Would ITV show something like this today?
