The trouble is when you provide a novel and relatively cheap service in London, boneheads are attracted to it. I’m talking about the recent influx of ‘Boris bikes’ that people are currently mounting in central London. I say ‘currently’ because I can’t imagine it will be a sustainable trend. Perhaps just long enough for the [...]
First-timer?
I was walking towards London Bridge station when I saw the man in a new-looking suit with nothing but a copy of the Metro in his hand. He was walking around, slowly, and looking up. This is how I knew he was a first timer. Everyday commuters don’t look up, they know better than to [...]
Exercise: by invitation only
Forget Google Wave invites, it’s all about invites to other people’s exercise classes for me. The other week it was Pilates whilst I stayed with my Mum in Sussex, this morning it was Bikram Yoga with Ruby in London. I’m like a travelling exercise-woman! So what is Bikram Yoga I hear you say? It’s intense [...]
London surprise
Sounds like a cocktail, but is the official term for a sunny day in London when rain was forecast.
Friend or foe?
Here in Horsham people smile and say ‘hello there’ as they pass you in the street. It’s one of those places. At first I thought that they must think I’m someone else, so I smiled back and said hello thinking that’s what the person who they think I am would do. It seems that either [...]
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
Or maybe it’s because London is so now and so full of realness and so captivatingly enchanting. I was in the capital city this weekend just gone visiting family and friends, and fell a little more in love with her. It’s the noise of the traffic constantly beeping its presence, the dirt on the walls [...]
