South Bank Tour Part 2: There is little unity in the following images

At lot of you may recognize the above as the famous place where Genghis Khan wrote all those show tunes.I don't know why, but I always fancy these guys as being super ornery and defensive at all times. Smoking cigars. Fondling their cousins in the back of the town hall they rented for the wedding. Listening to the radio and nodding their heads thoughtfully while waiting to get their hair cut.Some kind of crazy gunfight (or even crazier punch-up) needs to be filmed along this street and it's criss-crossing bridges.
If you live along the Thames in the heart of London (or a small offshoot of the Thames, as these people do) then it is required by law that on your tax forms "Income" line you write "Doin' just fine, thanks for asking".Those little square bits running alongside the people are printed all over with chronicles of Bad Things in Iraq. This is can case folk were not aware.
This was outside of a museum dedicated to Churchill and his wartime efforts (surprise). I just may have to return there in the near future.

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South Bank Tour Part 1: Bo-ats

Yesterday I took along walk along the southern bank of the Thames, starting at London Bridge station (which is surprisingly far from London Bridge, given the name). I've once again remembered that I have barely touched upon London south of the river and so I'm going to try to get down there in the next while. Christ, I drank at Brixton's in Ottawa at least a dozen times and yet I've never been to Brixton! That has to be rectified.
The HMS Belfast.
The Golden Hinde.
Then we have this beautiful escapee from a Terry Gilliam animation. I found it in Hay's Galleria.

Terror, Islington Green

I don't like being cryptic and I also don't like spewing personal shit all over the Internet.A simple shape and an arts grant, signifying nothing (terribly remarkable).

But I'm caught between a rock and it's identical cousin because I also know that if I don't give the following heads up, then I'll probably piss off a lot of folk - or at least leave them scratching their heads a bit.So the compromise comes in the form of me compromising my personal rules for this site, though not too heavily I think, by saying that I've done something a bit stupid today.Huge Myddleton

It was something that could be advertised as reasonable or understandable, but that's irrelevant as to the effect. My coming days (perhaps weeks) are going to be stupid busy in order to avoid some industrial strength unpleasantness. Emails will be left to languish more than they will be replied to. Facebookery will be regarded as frippary. Skype will be slippery. Children will be left in the streets with nothing but an iPhone and a freshly soiled diaper with which to defend themselves.I will, of course, let you know when I make it to the other side of what I've just gone into. Until then, I'll probably still post little things here as this blog was not only meant to be a record of my London Experiment but to be the one way in which I would still try to keep in touch when things get too crazy for anything else to be reliable. This isn't to say I won't read emails/messages, in fact I kind of encourage them since it's always pleasant to hear what folk are up to, but patience will be a virtue in waiting for a response for the next while.

If haircuts could kill...

I'm blatantly stealing this from HarvestBird, but it had to be done. You don't meet folk like Stephan Fry's character often, but you meet people who come close more often then you might think.