-
Remembering The Dead
The two minute silence was scrupulously observed here at work, with most people heeding Ken Livingstone’s wish for Londoner’s to go out in the street. I stayed in the office, but looking out the window showed I was in the minority. I won’t repeat what I said the other day about minutes of silence. And…
-
$2.33 A Gallon
It’s always entertaining to watch Sky News’s feed of the CBS Evening News at 00:30 each evening (it’s delayed by an hour). Last week, on the day that London won the Olympics, and world leaders met at Gleneagles for G8, the headlines were all about Hurricane Dennis. Fair enough, but I’m sure that G8 really…
-
Death On The Staircase Weekend
BBC Four is repeating the whole Death on the Staircase series this weekend. This is a fabulous series, so I urge everyone to set up the Sky+/PVR accordingly, or invest in a few 180 minute VHS tapes and record it. Either that, or you could cancel all your social engagements this weekend and watch it…
-
Back To Work
Back on the tube this morning for the first time since the bomb blasts. I read a book and tried to drown out fellow passengers discussing how they were “nearly” caught in the blast at Liverpool Street or wherever. I could probably make a case for myself about how I “might” have been on the…
-
ITV Drama Sponsorship Credits
I’m not the only person, surely, who thinks that the sponsorship credits for ITV Drama by Sainsburys are the most annoying and condescending anyone’s ever seen? Faceless voices say things that oh-so-cleverly could refer both to the drama we’re watching, and Sainsbury’s food. “Is it finished yet?” “No there’s a another bit.” “I’m really enjoying…
-
Top of the Heap
Top Of The Heap is another in the Hard Case Crime series. This time it’s by Erle Stanley Gardner and details a complicated investigation involving seedy motels, mob leaders, shady companies, strippers, and illegal gambling dens. All the ingredients to make a good noir thriller then. I’ll admit that I didn’t find it quite as…
-
WWII 60th Anniversary
It was great to see that thousands went into London today to celebrate the 60th anniversary of war ending. There were some obvious parrallels between events of the early forties and today, but high security or not people came out in their droves. The flyby of WWII planes was spectacular, and I was lucky to…
-
BBC Ceefax
Something I only just noticed. If you’re watching BBC TV on an analogue set that has teletext, and change channels to BBC1 or BBC2 during the break between programmes, instead of seeing the Ceefax generated “BBC1” or “BBC2” it instead shows the name of the next programme. This reverts to the station’s name once the…
-
Travelling in London
Obviously the wall to wall coverage of the London bombings is continuing today, but here are a couple of things that have raised my ire over the morning. Lots of reporters were out and about at the major stations this morning seeing how Londoners were coping with transport in this morning, and would they get…
-
Bombings
It’s difficult to know what to think of people who can bomb so callously targeting random men, women and children. The authorities have been really good, and although transport was closed down in central London, people have been walking out of “Zone 1” to many of the mainline stations that are open. Personally, I had…
-
London Today
It’s all pretty chaotic, and we sit here pretty helpless wondering what the best thing to do is. Staying put is the best option for the time being. It’s seems like there are around six blasts around London in what seems at the moment to be a co-ordinated terrorist attack, not dissimilar to that in…
-
Deep Impact Picture
This is a spectacular photo of comet Tempel 1 taken from the flyby craft just after the impactor craft had hit the comet – actually 67 seconds afterwards.
Podcasts, Radio, TV, Books, Cycling, Photography and More
-
Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
Check out some of my other photography
