Recent Posts Tagged With 'London'

• For further information text REDUNDANT

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 15:57 in training, London, redundancy, sutton, leaflet

  I was handed this leaflet in the street earlier in the week:What I really like is the sentence in bold: "For further information text REDUNDANT to 60777". Talk about salt in the wound!Why not ask people to text in something more positive such as 'TR...

• thelondonpap

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 11:14 in London, masthead, local newspapers, thelondonpaper, thelondonpap

  Gareth emailed in to say:I picked up a free paper on the Tube the other day and was surprised to see it had been rebranded. However I think the new name more accurately reflects its contents - see attached. (Of course, it could always be a really unf...

• A MAPMe map of South London's best pubs

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 11:56 in London, Bars, maps, google maps, pubs

  I've been experimenting with the website MAPMe.com, which enables users to create personal or community maps and then embed them on to their website or blog. Yes, I know, Google Maps lets you do that too, but MAPMe.com seems to offer more functionali...

• Communal cabbing: apples and oranges

  Posted on Sunday June 14th, 2009 at 15:31 in London, figures, taxis, apples and oranges, tube strike, black cabs, bbc news magazine, cab-sharing

  During the recent Tube strike here in London, BBC News Magazine ran an interesting article on 'communal cabbing'. But I wasn't sure about this paragraph:The black cabs are taking up to five passengers per trip - compared with the average of 1.5 - and...

• Google Maps wants me to swim to Glasgow

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 06:37 in London, google maps, beta, swimming, photo special

  So I wanted to get from London Victoria to London Charing Cross, and asked Google Maps for "walking" directions. This is what it gave me:Yes, my destination is now Charing Cross in Glasgow – slightly out of the way (but arguably my fault). It also ...

• Indigo Jones the Doom Raider

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 04:20 in movies, Church, London, films, indiana jones, covent garden, st paul's, inigo jones

  So yesterday I visited St Paul's Church in Covent Garden (pictured) with three people who shall remain nameless.I remarked that the church had been designed by the influental architect Inigo Jones."I've never heard of him - but I have heard of Indigo...

• Numeracy and literacy is...

  Posted on Saturday May 16th, 2009 at 03:00 in London, courses, literacy, sutton, numeracy, subject-verb agreement

  So this is the last photo post before I return from holiday. Tomorrow it's back to the opinionated ramblings and bizarre product reviews!Anyway, I took this snap in Sutton, rather furtively in case the nice men promoting the courses took exception."N...

• All bags and coats cannot be reclaimed

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 03:00 in London, signs, passive voice, battersea, cloakroom, active voice

  Yes, I'm still on holiday. Here's something else I found down the back of my hard drive:So I lose my ticket, and nobody can reclaim any bags and coats until the end of the night? That doesn't seem fair... and what a strange shift from the active to t...

• Customer refreshment logistics technicians

  Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 03:00 in humour, Advertising, London, jobs, pubs, bar staff

  Yes, I'm still on holiday, so here's another picture from my collection. There's no mistake to spot this time, just some amusing language use:If you haven't worked it out yet, this is an advert for bar staff. And yes, I took the photo in a pub using ...

• 'The best heated smoking area in Whetstone...'

  Posted on Sunday May 3rd, 2009 at 13:05 in London, pubs, signs, whetstone, beer garden, smoking area, the griffin

  This sign made me laugh. So the pub in question, The Griffin, has "the best heated smoking area in Whetstone with a big screen"...Whetstone isn't exactly the largest area of London - so how many pubs there have a heated smoking area with a big screen...

• Timothy Taylor steak and ale pie

  Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 14:36 in beer, London, menu, pubs, black friar, timothy taylor landlord

  This afternoon I found myself in one of my favourite London pubs, the Black Friar in Blackfriars.On the menu was 'Timothy Taylor steak and ale pie'. Very tasty, no doubt, but as Timothy Taylor referred to the ale (Timothy Taylor Landlord) rather than...

• Word of the day: Uniqulture

  Posted on Saturday April 4th, 2009 at 05:37 in London, word of the day, deptford, artful, gravity guide, music tourist board, uniqulture

  I came across this word in issue six of a free publication called Gravity Guide, "your local music and lifestyle guide to South and East London".According to page 5:South East London is the home of Uniqulture (multi-culture without divisions); it is ...