 | You know that sinking feeling you get when you wake up and find that only one nostril is working? Getting that.
posted by diamond geezer [7:11 AM Feb 7th] |
| It suddenly strikes me that, one day in the hopefully far-distant future, I'm not going to be able to reach down to cut my toenails.
posted by diamond geezer [8:40 AM Feb 7th] |
| Attempting not to sneeze over the fat posh bloke in a Barbour on the DLR. Nearly managed, but... atchoo! (sorry)
posted by diamond geezer [9:56 AM Feb 7th] |
| Blimey, there are more contours in Forest Hill than the whole of East London put together.
posted by diamond geezer [10:33 AM Feb 7th] |
| Things you don't hear in London every day: "That's a big walrus, isn't it Stanley?"
posted by diamond geezer [10:58 AM Feb 7th] |
| Pulsating jellyfish! I appear to be the only adult at the Horniman without a privately-educated toddler in tow. http://tinyurl.com/apgkpk
posted by diamond geezer [11:21 AM Feb 7th] |
| Visiting a Museum beginning with C (because that's next), only to find that it's shut, just like it was when I turned up last month. Sigh.
posted by diamond geezer [12:17 PM Feb 7th] |
| OK then, don't let me join your library, see if I care. It's full of tramps reading newspapers and women eating smelly McChips anyway.
posted by diamond geezer [1:42 PM Feb 7th] |
| Clapham Common is all green again, apart from a fairly dense scattering of snowman-torso-sized lumps. http://tinyurl.com/dxo7hn
posted by diamond geezer [2:29 PM Feb 7th] |
| Wondering why the programme sellers outside Stamford Bridge are still attempting to sell programmes when everyone's obviously inside by now.
posted by diamond geezer [3:40 PM Feb 7th] |
| The automated female announcer at King's Cross tube station is almost, but not quite, as annoying as her colonial-robot-style male counterpart.
posted by diamond geezer [4:13 PM Feb 7th] |
| The entire piazza outside the British Library has been taped off because "the surface may be slippery", which it blatantly no longer is.
posted by diamond geezer [4:25 PM Feb 7th] |
| Pointing out to a supermarket assistant at St Pancras station that several of their battered cod fillets are out of date.
posted by diamond geezer [5:01 PM Feb 7th] |
| Filling my third handkerchief of the day (and not in a good way) (actually, I'm not sure there is a good way)
posted by diamond geezer [6:38 PM Feb 7th] |
| Why buy the new Pet Shop Boys single in 5 weeks time when you can listen to it repeatedly now for free on YouTube? http://tinyurl.com/cvc8rq
posted by diamond geezer [7:26 PM Feb 7th] |
| Enjoying a VAT-reduced M&S chocolate teacake (mmm, definitely a cake, not a biscuit).
posted by diamond geezer [7:55 PM Feb 7th] |
| Maybe if I go out for the evening I can get away without turning my heating on.
posted by diamond geezer [8:41 PM Feb 7th] |
| Misery is... the final two people to enter the darkened cinema making a beeline for the two spare seats immediately beside you.
posted by diamond geezer [9:59 PM Feb 7th] |
| Slumdog Millionaire: there's a clue in the title [spoiler]
posted by diamond geezer [11:27 PM Feb 7th] |
| Noting, with a mixture of relief and disappointment, that the Mystery Count could easily have increased today, but didn't.
posted by diamond geezer [11:59 PM Feb 7th] |
