A note to anyone taking a Piccadilly Line train from Covent Garden station: there are four lifts in operation at that station. There's even a semi-permanent sign at the station informing passengers of such.

Although I have no idea whose bright idea it was to put that sign between one pair of lifts and the other, so you can't see the second pair of ( Read more... )

You have got to be kidding me.

You have got to be fucking kidding meNot only is Wednesday my second day at my new job, but I'm going to Leeds on Thursday. By coach. From Victoria coach station. A journey which under the best circumstances would take me an hour on the Piccadilly and Victoria lines ( Read more... )

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  Love on the Northern Line
  
  Some guy has traveled the Northern Line on Google Street View - and missed Mornington Crescent
  
  (tags: tube)
  

I decided that I could count 'you all should' from viridian as being tagged, so I am doing so.

1. Post about something that made you happy today.


2. Repeat for eight days.


3. Tag eight people to do the same.

( Day One )

It's late, but not so late that the tubes are crowded with people panicking about catching the last train. The carriage is actually quite quiet; in the middle section of a dozen seats, there's you, reading your magazine; a slightly older lady opposite; a 'normal' looking young man and a woman in her mid to late twenties, wearing a black trenchcoat ( Read more... )

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  Websites as graphs
  
  This is pretty. Not a lot of point in LJ, I guess, as we have so little actual control over layout.
  
  (tags: webdesign)
  
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  SB's Guide to Pub Etiquette.
  
  SB spends far too many words to tell people \"Don't be a git\". Sadly for everything, some people need explaining how ( Read more... )

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  BBC NEWS | Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study
  
  I felt guilty, when I read the news about Pterry's illness, for the positive feeling that came with knowing this would happen. Sadly, there is nothing better for medical research funding than a rich person being diagnosed with a specific disease.
  
  (tags: news discworld)
  
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  www.david-joseph.com
  
  More ( Read more... )

If you are at all squeamish about needles, eyes, tattoos, things touching eyes, fluid in eyes, eyelids being pulled back, or anything of that nature, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK

I only mention it because the sentence If even the sight of someone being needled with a normal tattoo is enough to make your eyes water, then it might be best to look away now ( Read more... )

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  London Underground Tube Diary
  
  I can't really recognise any of these except West Hampstead, but by golly, tub stations is pretty
  
  (tags: tube london)