Wednesday, 30 November 2005

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Christmas Shopping I decided I was going to be early this year. Not for me the dashing round on Christmas Eve. Did very well in the bargain ...
Sunday, 27 November 2005

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We Witnessed 15.40 341 Bus. Harringay. An Eastern European woman got on the bus ahead of us with her daughter and sat down on the front left...
Friday, 25 November 2005

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Homeward Bound "If I had to pick the ultimate cute guy I've met since September, its got to be Theo." "Too cute, just too...
Wednesday, 23 November 2005

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The freeFALL of George Bush So this lands in my inbox today and ends up being quite compulsive so I had to stop from watching it for hours....
Tuesday, 22 November 2005

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Tube On the tube to Kings Cross with me today were (in direct line of vision): pimple guy pock mark guy winter sports suntan guy hat guy...
Monday, 21 November 2005

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How to Build a Crane Not so long ago I was wondering how they build a crane when it would seem they would need one to build one. A suggesti...
Wednesday, 16 November 2005

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343 3:30 Me and a bus load of crazed school girls are riding the 343 from Nunhead to New Cross Gate. I'm downstairs with the olds and th...
Tuesday, 15 November 2005

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Happy Birthday To my namesake, Harriet the Tortoise , 175 today.

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Teabag In the aisle on the bottom deck of the bus is a teabag, escaped from someone's shopping. It's lying flattened from being step...
Saturday, 12 November 2005

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Spot the Difference If anyone has the Guardian today, they might be interested in an article in the Weekend called I am a camera which is s...
Wednesday, 9 November 2005

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The Coldest Spots in London Its like a venn diagram - they are either related to work, or to waiting, or to both. London Bridge bus station ...

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Evening In the dark, carriages filled with muted yellow light hurtle along the train lines. Tower blocks with dimly lit balconies rise up of...
Sunday, 6 November 2005

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Favourite London Escalators My favourite London escalators, in no particular order: Level 0 to Level 2, Tate Modern . One day a boy on the f...
Saturday, 5 November 2005

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Remember, Remember the 5th of November Fireworks on the Thames. Boom from the rockets reverberating between St Pauls and the Tate Modern acr...

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Cafe Valerie Bails and I sat outside Cafe Valerie (eating cake and drinking coffee) contemplating the purpose the man had for his packet of ...
Thursday, 3 November 2005

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South to North: a journey In the dark on the exposed platform by the station master's door, a little girl no more than 2 feet tall does ...

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Pumpkin Lantern Yes, the pumpkin was a gift to my niece on her birthday. Yes, it sat around on the kitchen top for easily a week. Yes, we ha...
Tuesday, 1 November 2005

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Remember, Remember ... Its an over excitable time of year for young people (she says trying hard not to sound like those old pink-rinsed gra...
Sunday, 30 October 2005

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Summer Time Ends The fall-back extra hour gives us light in the morning but brings the dark prematurely. Going out at 5.00 feels like 7.00pm...

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Unilever Series I liked the Bruce Nauman whispering gallery thing and everyone loved the Eliasson sunshine . Kapoor 's massive scale wa...