Very moving entry
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Car workshop on the walk to work. So closing down after 32 years had nothing to do with not updating your phone number for the new London codes, then?
Tube strike day two. If nothing else, it’s getting me very fit. I switched to my other pair of shoes today, after yesterday’s blisters, and found they had holes in the soles. So, I guess I’ll be buying new ones at the weekend.
Anyhow, I walked into the office and back, much like the rest of London (although there were a fair few skateboards around today, which made the more crowded than usual roads an exciting place to be). It was actually quite pleasant: I almost hope we can have a strike one day every month. It would do great things for London’s general health.
Although it wouldn’t be so fun in the winter.
So, there was an hour of walking each way, then a day of boxing up the office ready for our move tomorrow morning. How we have managed to accumulate so much rubbish in so short a time down in the basement (we can call it that now we’re moving up a level - before, it was the ‘lower ground floor’) I don’t know.
Everything is now either in boxes or bags for the bin, and probably being relocated as I sit here typing this. The best thing, though, is it means tomorrow will be a leisurely start as we’re not due in until 12.30.
That leaves plenty of time for a leisurely swim in the morning. Hopefully the pool won’t be so full as it was this evening when most of the other ’swimmers’ seemed to be more interested in doing handstands than breaststroke.
Sometimes I think it may be getting close to the point where I switch gym.
If you liked that post, then try these...
The Barbican on August 18th, 2005
MacUser lunch on December 15th, 2006
MPH Show and Shibboleth on November 5th, 2007
Platform 9 3/4 on September 9th, 2006
The view from the BT Tower on August 2nd, 2007
July 1st, 2004 at 7:57 pm
Darling, if you want to live somewhere with frequent strikes, move to Italy. I think they have train/bus/whatever strikes about once a month. Or something.
Since I got that substitute job downtown I’m doing much more walking than before. I’m quite happy with that. I still miss living in that neighbourhood.
July 2nd, 2004 at 10:22 pm
I also like the grammatical implication that one single solitary traffic warden is responsible for the closure. Obviously some kind of Sicilian vendetta…