Category Archives: London

Things I had forgotten about London

1. How the escalators at tube stations, when they are broken, look really short but in actual fact are very long. They are long and marathonesque and once you start walking up the broken escalators – careful not to totally freak out due to the stationary-ness of it all and fall over – you have [...]
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Idiot

So, I am in the Spaniard’s Inn, waiting to get served. And waiting, and also, waiting a bit longer. "Shall we just go somewhere else?" Says Bill."No! We’re here now! Won’t be much longer!" Say I, stupidly.Much longer later, it is finally my turn to order."Hi.. What lagers do you have?" I ask. Because it’s [...]
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Slightly disturbing overheard conversation. Also, what happens when you turn off the iPod and listen to people!

There were children, sitting behind me on the bus home today. I think that they were cousins, staying for half term with their grandmother. This is irrelevant story-making, the kind of thing I cannot help myself doing when listening to strangers’ conversations. One of them was Canadian and so we’ll call him Charlie Canada, and [...]
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Recycleyourcopy of thelondonpaper

Obviously, you already know about the 72,000* free newspapers that circulate in London at the moment. And you may also know that it’s not very good bearing in mind that most of those 72,000* end up flittering around on the tubes and buses with big muddy footprints all over them. And, if you spend any [...]
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The superfi and the tramp

Ever since I decided that I want to live somewhere not London next year, I’ve been fed up with London. The bus journeys, the distance between here and there, the free newspapers thrust upon me, the beggar who interrupted my Pret a manger carrot cake, the sirens that KEEP GOING OFF. I brush this aside, [...]
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