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I met up with my tax accountant and his friend, the cardiologist, tonight. It was great. We went on the London Eye and had dinner at Strada by the Royal Festival Hall afterwards. Now I'm tired and thirsty.

The London Eye was of course a great hit. Even with the cardiologist who is pretty scared of heights. He took lots of photos. It's something ( Read more... )

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It's 7 July, one year later and I'm nervous about going on the tube.

As I was walking down the stairs to the platform at Barbican, there was a customer announcement on the tannoy. The usual canned, cultured woman's voice said "Customer information", then a younger male voice said, enunciating very clearly "England have won, two nil." No further information was given or requested. Everybody knew.

From the London Underground Realtime Travel News right now: NORTHERN LINE: Severe delays are occurring due [to] earlier track search for a missing member of staff.
Message received 07:16am
Wonder if they found him. Wonder how they lost him.

Who wants to live in Burst Racoon? Seen on Neil Gaiman's blog.

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Plain clothes police officers shoot a man at Stockwell station on the Northern Line. Stockwell is south of the river, just a few stations from the Oval. The Victoria line also stops there.