It’s Only a Phone Box
I took this picture on Whitehall yesterday.
Two tourists were photographing themselves in and outside the box.
It’s Only a Phone Box
I can’t remember the last time I used a public phone, let alone one in a box. Possibly twelve years or so ago. Last time I needed to, when I couldn’t get a signal on my mobile and my car had broken down, a local resident let me use his land-line.
Radio 5 Broadcasts in Evening Dress
Radio 5 is at an important golf dinner tonight and the reporters are broadcasting in evening dress.
Just like radio used to be before the Second World War.
Let’s Stick It to the Obituary Writers
Nick Curtis in the Evening Standard has a go at obituary writers in his piece tonight. He argues that you can’t libel the dead so why not tell the truth. He liked the obituary of Michael Jackson in Private Eye, headlined Mad Paedophile Dead.
After all, when the true stories are published, the truth comes out anyway. So why not print it in the obituary!
The Dictator
I went to see this film yesterday. I didn’t find it particularly good. Or even that funny! In fact the cinema was rather quiet.
Monty Python would have done the story much better!
Grace’s Guide
This web site is an interesting one, for those who want to research British industrial history.
A Thought of Angel on Google
This was the Thought of Angel yesterday.
Thought of Angel – Google
No-one was seeming to mind, that it was a bit sexist. Or are wives and their mothers still fair game.
More Sherlocks Than Hamlet
According to the Guinness Book of Records, there have been 254 film and television versions of Sherlock Holmes, but only 206 of Hamlet.
It Was The Scousers That Nicked It!
Congratulations all round to Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port fsctory for getting the nod to manufacture the new Astra, as reported here.
Duncan Aldred, the chairman of Vauxhall, who had a lot of say in the decision, is not exactly a scouser, as he was born in Bolton, but then Aldred is quite a common surname in Liverpool and one of the Senior Lecturers in Engineering at Liverpool University in the 1960s was another of the clan. So one way or another the man who took the decision was on the payroll of the Scouse Army.
I suspect though, that one drink in the Phil was enough to get the Americans on his side, as who could resist a city and its workforce after seeing some of the best pub toilets in the world.
Harringay Can’t Go To The Dogs Anymore!
A s child, I used to go here to the Harringay Arena to see the ice shows. There was also a dog and speedway track called Harringay Stadium. Now all that remains is the name, in that of the large retail park.
Where’s the Dog Track?
With the recent loss of Walthamstow dog track to developers and the abandoning of horse racing at Alexandra Palace, life has lost some excitement in that area of North London.
My great-uncle Charlie, who introduced me to cider lived somewhere locally. He had been some sort of minor official in the colonies.
Court Uniform
There have been several letters in The Times lately on this subject. So I sent in this missive about C.
My late wife was a barrister for many years and although many ladies in the profession had problems with court uniform, she never did. Egged on by others and especially another barrister, with a love of elaborate footwear and a nickname of ‘Boots’, she pushed everything to the limit. Even twenty years ago, her suits might be blue and/or with trousers. Black as she said was for funerals not work!
Others pondered how she got away with it! Certainly, in one East Anglian Court, she had a stand-off with the late judge, because she liked his malodorous cocker-spaniel, which sat at his feet during cases, so he didn’t dare complain.
I suspect the two of them complete with the spaniel, are enjoying trying some of the Devil’s miscreants!
It has not been published yet, but I think they’ve closed the topic
The Anonymous Widower 