Wot No Chuggers
I took this picture of a desolate Angel in Islington today.
Wot No Chuggers
You will notice that the pavement is without the dreaded chuggers.
Any ideas?
Voting for the Bus
I was at the Angel yesterday afternoon, waiting for a 38 or 56 to take me home, when a New Bus for London passed the other way going towards Victoria.
The guy standing next to me, asked if I’d ridden the bus and I said several times. We then both agreed that we liked them and I said that as an engineer and a designer, it had a lot of good ideas that would find their way into new buses, making them all better.
He then made the statement, that although he was a lifelong Labour voter, he would be voting for the one candidate, who won’t be scrapping the bus; Boris.
Is this the first time that the man on the Dalston omnibus, has been swayed in his voting preference, by that bus?
Championship Clubs Agree Fair Play Rules
The Championship clubs have agreed a set of fair-play rules to ensure that a club can’t do a QPR and buy themselves promotion. It is reported here in the Independent.
We should be told which were the three Championship clubs that voted against the implementation of the rules.
Any ideas?
On the 26th April, The Times said the three clubs were Reading, Southampton and Leicester City. All are owned by very rich individuals.
An Exquisite Necklace
This necklace is unique and was designed by a student at the Royal College of Arts for her degree.
An Exquisite Necklace
It is silver, with butterfly wings under ground glass. It was made about 1970.
It does need a bit of a clean-up. But otherwise it is in good condition.
What Have the London Marathon and the Multi-User Version of Artemis in Common
According to legend and this web site, the London Marathon was planned by Chris Brasher and John Disley in a pub; the Dysart Arms at Richmond.
So what’s different to most great ideas?
The first multi-user version of Artemis, the project management system, was designed by Richard Nobbs and myself in the Gardeners Arms at Stutton.
Are All Our Spies Kinky?
The revelations in the inquest into the death of Gareth Williams seem to get more and more bizarre. Here‘s the latest instalment from the Telegraph. What will Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells be writing in his letters to the paper?
It has been said he was a brilliant mathematician. Obviously, if this was the case, he should have been able to work out how long it takes someone to suffocate in a sports bag!
A Restaurant That Lives Up To Its Name
The Heart Attack Grill is in Las Vegas and it is living up to its name, as this story from Reuters show. Here’s an extract.
The female customer, a Las Vegas resident in her 40s, had been devouring a “double bypass burger,” puffing on cigarettes, and sipping a margarita when she collapsed Saturday night, the Grill’s owner told ABC News.
I won’t be visiting.
The French Try Every Way to Leave the Country
The French seem to have panicked about the prospect of a new very left-wing government, as this article shows.
Kazahkstan Tourism is on the Increase
Apparently the number of tourists going to Kazahkstan is on the increase according to this article on the BBC.
But Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov told politicians on Monday, 23 April: “With the release of this film, the number of visas issued by Kazakhstan grew tenfold.
“I am grateful to ‘Borat’ for helping attract tourists to Kazakhstan.”
It probably shows that we don’t use humour enough to promote things.
On the other hand, some of the travel programs made by comedians like Billy Connolly, Mike Palin and Gryff Rhys-Jones have probably done a log to promote some of the more unusual places in both the UK and the wider world.
This Dreadful Weather
Carol Kirkwood’s forecasts are still as good as ever. But why has the weather got so bad since BBC Breakfast moved to the Capital of Rain, Manchester?
Is it the Devil getting his own back? As he wants to see what’s going on in the capital of this country, not some second-rate city in the North.
The Anonymous Widower 