Things I see and things I think whilst on my bicycle in and around town

Time travel

2010-03-14T22:54:00.004Z

Taken just yesterday on a tube train, at the London Tranport Museum's Acton Depot open day.

I Must Get My Bike’s Wheels Sorted Out

2009-10-23T23:34:00.001+01:00

Hounslow Skyride Advertised on ... dictionary.com

2009-08-07T19:15:00.005+01:00

Perversly I was looking up the dictionary definition of the word “motor” at the time.

http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/skyride/hounslow

“I Love Hammersmith in the Summer”...

2009-08-05T21:44:00.007+01:00

...emote the Pyongyang style posters around the 25°C, overly humid and traffic choked Hammersmith Gyratory. *Cough Cough*

Worshippers on Dunstable Downs

2009-06-14T18:31:00.004+01:00

We'd been listening to the soulful singing most of the afternoon whilst flying kites on the side of the down, so decided to go down and investigate:

Beating the Tube Strike

2009-06-10T20:55:00.009+01:00

The horsey way.

I wonder where they parked them?

Litter Lout on The Mall

2009-05-06T19:02:00.004+01:00

Normally The Mall is utterly litter free, not a sweet wrapper in sight.

However, this morning some litter lout left their rubbish all over the junction at Malborough Road.

Horsey Hyde Park

2009-03-21T22:37:00.005Z

There’s always plenty to see in Hyde park as I cycle through it in the morning.

It is mainly horses though; here we have what I’m pretty sure are some Blues and Royals drilling in the background, with a horse drawn carriage en-route to Buckingham Palace in the foreground.

Spring Sprang

2009-03-15T11:53:00.004Z

A view over the Thames just past Barnes Bridge looking toward the Budweiser brewery (which stinks of rice pudding).

Underground Equations

2009-03-08T19:45:00.007Z

Whilst drunkenly leaning against a one person signal control box on the platform at Acton Town underground station recently I noticed some scribbles on the back plate.

I looked a little closer, expecting tea or coffee orders, phone numbers, or even some abuse for the next person on shift, but no, what I saw is what I think are equations from Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Or is it special relativity?

Ho hum (click for larger picture).

Cyclists through the Wellington Arch

2009-03-02T20:02:00.003Z

Cyclists stream though the Wellington Arch of a Monday evening, heading for home after ‘climbing’ up the rather misleadingly named Constitution Hill.

Comments that won’t make it onto the Daily Mail’s web site (a series)

2009-02-28T07:44:00.005Z

After taking offence at this statement in this article on the Daily Mail’s website:

Boris Johnson is well-known for championing green issues and the virtues of public transport.

I submitted this comment:

He champions green issues and public transport?

He wants to scrap the western extension congestion charge zone; he’s canned the next phase of the low emmission zone; allowed Thames Water to go ahead with its energy guzzling desalination plant; signed off a massive expansion of flights at London City airport; wants to build a four runway airport in one of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the UK (and keep Heathrow going); is encouraging motorcycling in deference to cycling by allowing motorcyclists in bus lanes; scrapped the planned £25 congestion charge; scrapped trams and dockland’s light railway extensions.

And the Daily Mail describes as a green mayor?!

Chance of appearing? 1%?

Has the Evening Standard chosen its runner for 2012?

2009-02-27T20:46:00.003Z

He’s not even a candidate (yet), and already the Evening Standard has him as the mayor in 2012; I’ve observed the Evening Standard using the quotes of other people to push its editorial line before.

Is it going to push a potential Sugar mandate with the vigor it pushed the Boris one?

*UPDATE* It certainly seems so. Now what are the motivations there?

They lit up the National Gallery tonight

2009-02-26T21:43:00.001Z

Come on, us cyclists aren’t that bad, are we?

2009-02-24T20:27:00.000Z

Taken Tue 24 Feb on Lower Thames Street heading west.

The very spooky Royal Courts of Justice

2009-02-24T06:08:00.000Z