I am doing a traffic survey in Parliament Square today. Civil servants, come and say hello!

Well, I was dancing at a nightclub one Friday night ( Read more... )

My life got rated 15 in that meme going around. It's probably all the cursing under my breath while commuting that did it. I was hoping to be more family-friendly, but it appears that my main appeal is to 12 year olds trying to be a bit reckless in Blockbuster ( Read more... )

I am back from Falmouth, supposedly to keep tjej in order, though as soon as I got back she informed me she was going to see Justin Timberlake without me (unforgiveable, even if someone I've never met is providing the tickets), did my hair so that I resembled MC Kinky and made me watch a dreadful film that Claire Danes couldn't salvage. I don't know ( Read more... )

The work Christmas shindig was fun, despite being in Hammersmith which is nowhere near anywhere and yet still in zone 2! (Unlike Stratford, relegated to zone 3 and still the actual real centre of London.) Everyone was very well-behaved, though the management got a bit tipsy and my boss demanded to have his photo taken with me, much to my ( Read more... )

My alarm clock woke me up at 4.30 and told me I was an alcoholic deadbeat loser who squandered everything good that this way comes.  It then laughed at me in the manner of the laughing furniture in 'Evil Dead', knowing that it had successfully bummed me out for the whole morning and woken me an hour before I was actually supposed to be getting up ( Read more... )

1. There are little computery boxes on posts which send information to the bus stops about how long your bus will take to get to your stop, so the electronic countdown signs at bus stops are actually based on something like the truth. (If you want to see one, Camp Terry has put luminous tape on all the ones on Bow Road ( Read more... )

I finished the bus survey today but I am too crazed with relief to write about it this evening. Coming up, a list of valuable things I have learned from it which prove that the last five and a half weeks haven't been a complete waste of time. Today's Vauable Thing was that everything is more fun with a Queen soundtrack to it. Hoorah.

I bloody knew it! Or rather, I didn't, but I really should have. At 5.20pm I got the call from Rob ("Hi... Jo..." - except the traffic nearby was so loud that I couldn't hear him) to come back tomorrow and do ANOTHER day on the 25 bus. I am being punished for taking days off to have fun. I was very cross and immediately skived off to buy things ( Read more... )

Oh bollocks. Once again I am too tired to write about Iceland. Perhaps I should just say that I had a good time and have done with it, I dunno. Or maybe next week ( Read more... )