London seemed to me rather beautiful today. I'm not sure why, perhaps it was a mix of the fact that I felt in a good mood, and that it was a bank holiday and the sun was shining, but I just enjoyed being in London today.
I'm rather afraid I might be a bit of a London Underground geek. I've been trying to hide it for sometime, but actually, I find myself quite attracted to the LU (and the DLR (QLR)). I went into the LU transport museum shop today, and perused the vast number of books and various bits of paraphernalia available. I found myself fixated upon a book all about the LU maps post
Harry Beck. Actually, it was
this book. I think that maybe I'm simply attracted to the Englishness of it all. I love the old posters you can get from the shop, with the old roundel and city workers in bowler hats, probably saying "spiffing day, what what?" to each other and smoking pipes. It is said that many people become nostalgic for an era twenty years before they were born, but I think I may have become nostalgic for an era fifty years before I was born.
I'm starting to think that
Wikipedia is one of the best websites on the internet!! (I find myself typing 'WikipAedia", because I'm an Englishman :) ) It's pretty much run by the public, and anyone can add to it's content, meaning it's a continually growing fountain of knowledge right there on the 'net. That's all in that snippet. No more...
Today's palindrome is "I prefer Pi"
Check out
this!!! The most ridiculous story I've seen for a while....
That's all the snippets for today, folks. More soon...
