I note there has been a massive increase in road traffic accidents recently. Not in real life, but at the cinema, where every other film seems to have a surprise “someone getting run over” scene. It provides the twist in Last Life In The […]

Mikey suggests that Colebrooke Road covers the Regents Canal
Here’s the pictures from the wall near my bathroom (1835 on the left)

It seems to me that looking at the roads around, nothing has changed their alignment – Upper Street, Essex[…]

The great UCI sandwich wars of 2004 — well, said wars aren’t going to erupt fully for another month or so, probably more. But they are incipient, as there are now three different places within walking distance from my office space that w[…]

“You are a very handsome man.” — yesterday as part of that odd film series I mentioned in this post I ended up seeing the sometimes okay sometimes pretty damned draggy Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (they’re showing the f[…]

And a Nelson reigns over them all — to this day I’m not at all sure what borders Trafalgar Square. I’ve seen the buildings enough times and all, but they just seem sorta there, you know — big slabs of marble that I’m su[…]

STATS HELP WANTED!
I recently got a little toy to play with at work – a handy excel tool for analysing data. I want to put it to work on the Square Yable but the data I’ve got from that so far is a bit patchy thus far, so in the meantime […]

FT Top 100 Films 44: COOL RUNNINGS
Tom Says: The traditional sports film comes in two varieties – sporting hero(es) win and sporting hero(es) lose. Either is a banker; neither is sad. Losing at real actual sports is often sad but tends to be ac[…]

Don’t try this at home…[…]

“These people have no televisual persona, do they? They just should not be on television!”
A Quiz:
a) Who said that?
b) About whom?
c) On which programme last night?
Answers in the comments box please. All shall be revealed later today&#8[…]

VANISHING LONDON: The W1 Logo Outside The West One Shoping Centre
Why would anyone bemoan the loss of a brass insert logo on a piece of paving on Oxford Street. There are other things more worth of missing on Oxford Street, before you get to this rat[…]