dundee Siren

New album on the left

Wednesday : 08:06 Downs Road (total siren count 3 so Far)
Tuesday : 1:49 Pentonville Road (total siren count 4)
Monday : 11:23 Broad Street Dundee, (total siren count 2)

post 101

this is my 101th post and therfore it would seem relevant to list the top five pet hates that i would like see obliviated. Asside from boy racers teenagers in public and societys necessaty for people to spell conventinally i don't really dislike anything, oh and chicken,shrimps and brocoli. so i'll just leave this post open in case i do.

Im up in scotland at the moment all the kids are up and after a long weekend i just want some silence. maybe i am getting old but they are just too loud and they don't listen, even when they ask you a question, half way throught answer they have lost intrest and have moved on. i mean how do they expect to learn anything?

and its raining in scotland the weather is terrible cold and wet not very august at all. I really quite like it up here it just seems nicer, i think i could get in to village life where you get to know everyone and what there up to, really think i could hack it for a while,but then after a year i would enevitably get board of the people i know and want to move on. No sirens since thursday night, so at least i feal safer. Maybe i could get a job driving a landrover, or climbing mountains, or using a big axe yeah that would be good!

Eventful evening

Well last night i went to the shakespere globe once again, this time to see a comedy of Errors (titus andronicus was better) but that turned out to be only one of the multitude of things worthey of a mention.

Alex At the show Alex fainted, now when we went to see titus andronicus 7 people fainted mainly because it was one of shakesperes bloddiest plays. Alex however shuned that opertunity and fainted and his most slapstick.

Thames But two minutes after the show. walking along the thames it became clear that sombody had ended up in the thames, i am assuming accidentally. Incedentally Ed Excel (the A-Level Exam board) got in to trouble yesterday for including a hangman doodle on the exam results page of there website.

Tower Bridge. As i was walking accross london bridge they raised Tower bridge

Pickpocket On the (149) bus there was a rather inconsiderate wee man who left his bags on the seat so that no one could sit down. well about 5 minutes after i got on the guy Shouts "STOP" really loudly and firmly it transpires that he had seen some guy try and steal the purse of a lady who was standing up. He then ordered the pickpocket off the bus and on his way. A couple of things occured to me here.
(1) Here was proof that there are comunity spirted people in london.
(2) First impressions can be deceptive (i would have picked him for th epick pocket and the pick pocket for a local).
(3) Was it the best thing to do to send the pick pocket off the bus to wait for the next 1 should i or someone else done somthing different to try and stop him more permenantly?

Cycling OK not technically this last night but on my way in this morning i cam closer still to almost getting knocked off my bike. A guy in a little van was pulling over to the left hand lane of pentonville road, which is exactly where i happened to be. So i tapped on his window he braked missed me and then proceeded to toot his horn at me. As he passed me he shouted that somthing un repeatable at me. luckilly he stoped at red lights just yards further down the road and it transpired that he was annoyed that i tapped on his window. not that he had almost knowcked me off, not that my hand was better than my entire body, not that for some reason he felt the need to toot as he was passing me, nor the fact that i was just happilly cycling along the road, well its the perils of cycling i presume.

First Siren of the day: 14:52 Pentonville Road, Unknown (siren count 5)

Sirens

Living in london as with every other major city comes at a price. im not just talking about monetary value here, in this instance what i am talking about is at best noise polution, at worse it is the identifer that someone is in real trouble. of course what i am talking about the sirens on police cars fire engines and ambulances. In theory ever time you here one of these it is because someon quite close to where you are is in trouble and need emergency resue very quickly. (the london Ambulance service aims to reach heart attack sufferers within 8 Minutes)

It has been a source of growing concern to me that the frequency upon which i here this emergency incedent is startlinly high. futhermore the ability to which i can just zone them out ui find somewhat amazing. so for the next wee while, or at least till my interest is taken up withe somthing else i am going to log the time and place where i here the first siren of the day.

Wednesday: 8:25am, Balls pond road, Police car (count 6 Today)

Crime Scene Poker

So last night i held a poker night at my flat. but with a twist everyone had to ome in character i set the scene worthey of Hackney. There had been a prison Break and all the criminals where ling low while the incedent was cleared.


If my memory serves me corectly Juliete Bravo and Madame Tracy walked of with the lion share. the night went quite well even if i did only make £2.50 which probebly wouldn't over the cost of the amazing home made Guacamole. once again i did well in the tornerment game biding my time to make moves but i was missing an edge of taking people out of the game never quite in the right position. so i ended up second.

3 new albums on the left one from last night, one from last time i was in scotland and then snowdonia a couple of weeks ago.