New design UK coins I've already received in my small change: 1p, 2p, 5p, 20p New design UK coins I've not yet received in my small change: 10p, 50p, £1
Shepherd's Bush stations opening around now-ish: » Shepherd's Bush (Overground) - Sunday 28 September » Shepherd's Bush (Central) - Sunday 5 October (probably) » Shepherd's Bush Market (Hammersmith & City) - Sunday 12 October (maybe, not sure) » WoodLane (Hammersmith & City) - Sunday 12 October
Cities hoping to be elected host city for the 2016 Olympics (one year from today): Chicago (2 to 1), Tokyo (4 to 1), Rio (4 to 1), Madrid (8 to 1)
People with whom I've exchanged emails in the last 48 hours: My new boss, the great grandson of a Labour leader, Kevan, a recently published author, Great Aunt Annie, some media lady at my local council, a hopeful new blogger, my parents, somebody pretending to live in Woking, a London Underground train supervisor, Vern in Marfa.
London Underground lines fully operational all this weekend: Bakerloo, Piccadilly London Underground lines not fully operational all this weekend: Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Victoria, Waterloo & City
Three-letter UK placenames: Alt, Ash, Ayr, Bix, Bow, Box, Cwm, Dun, Elm, Ely, Esh, Eye, Foy, Ham, Hay, Hoe, Hoo, Hoy, Ide, Kea, Kew, Kyo, Lea, Lee, Lew, Lye, Moy, Old, Ord, Ore, Raw, Rhu, Rye, Uig, Usk, Urr, Van, Wem, Wix, Wye. (anyone else live in one of them?)
Years in which current bendy bus contracts end: 2009: 38, 507, 521 2010: 18, 149, 207 2011: 12, 25, 29, 73 2013: 436, 453 (That's according to this post over at BorisWatch, and comments here. There are more recent announcements suggesting that the 38 will become a very frequent double decker, and the 507 and 521 both costly single deckers - tons of detail here and in this pdf)
