I don’t normally do the celeb spotting thing, but I’ll just point out that today I passed Vic Reeves in Forbidden Planet. And it was only two or three years ago that I sat next to him in Yo! Sushi at Victoria.
Two people who live in London cross paths twice in busy public places. Shock.
Busy day yesterday. Google releases Street View for the UK so offices all over the country ground to a halt, Microsoft release IE8 and I do a pub quiz for the first time in ages. Came fourth out of thirteen teams (and the winners had twice as many people as we did).
In a moment of madness I decided to walk from the office to the pub. According to Google Maps it was 5.2 miles (the route) and they estimated it would take 1 hour 47 minutes – I ended up doing it in 1 hour 30 minutes and lost a couple of minutes when I turned the wrong way in Peckham. I always get lost in Peckham, I don’t know why, it’s just one of those things.
The stretch along Old Kent Road is a bit grim and there was a steep bit towards the end (the clue’s in the name of Forest Hill Road). That’s the problem of walking from central London outwards – it starts flat and then inevitably gets steeper.
But it certainly gave me a good thirst by the time I reached the pub.
relaxedYesterday, I visited Kew Gardens [1] with a group of friends, in particular to see the new Treetop Walkway. We picked a very cold and wet day for this trip which meant that there were fewer crowds around, but also that the conditions were less than ideal for photography.
After the Gardens shut we attempted to dry out and warm up in Newens where we admired photographs of John Major and a pony[2] and sampled the historic delicacy that is Maids of Honour. Apparently, the location of the gents is also historic but, on a still very wet day, less of a delicacy.
[1] I believe this was the first time I’ve visted Kew – I may have been as a child but one big garden looks much like another to a small boy. This means that it joins the Globe Theatre and the Royal Albert Hall as major London attractions that I’ve visited for the first time in 2008.
[2] Separate photographs. I can’t imagine John Major and a pony in the same photograph. Anyone thinking of making an Edwina Currie joke: -10 points for obviousness.
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