The Joys of Travelling in London

Today one of my colleagues was stuck in a traffic jam for three hours. She was on a bus. She had to change buses three times because each time the one she was on got too far behind schedule the passengers had to get off so it could turn around and go back. The problem was here:

This is the end of one of the two tunnels that make up the Blackwall Tunnel. The first tunnel was built in 1892-97, the second one opened in 1967. They connect the north and south banks of the Thames towards the east of London.

At 12.30 on Tuesday morning, a police car going through the tunnel sent into a skid and mounted the pavement. The driver discovered that there was a one-and-a-half mile diesel spill going through the tunnel which had damaged the surface of the road so badly that it was going to have to be resurfaced before it could reopen. It may not be ready before tomorrow morning's rush hour.

So by the time my colleague gets home, she will bprobably have to turn round and start on her way back in again to be in time for work tomorrow.

Thank You

Well, folks, I just tried to add a comment to the post about Kathryn Erbe's HLOTS
appearance, and BLOGGER WOULDN'T LET ME COMMENT ON MY OWN BLOG! I just got the creaking door slamming shut sound effect.

So may I just take this opportunity of thanking those people who answered my question. I actually have this entire season, just for The Subway, and I've never actually got round to watching the rest of it! So I had Kathryn's episode all along without even realising it!

Consumed

Well, Bobby is edible in this episode, so let's consume him, Vixens!

Help Needed

While I was visiting here http://picstoenjoy.blogspot.com/ where some pictures of Kathryn Erbe are on display, I wondered if anyone - ANYONE - can tell me what the name is of the episode of HLOTS that she was in, and what season it was?

She played a girl with AIDS who had been infected by a guy who was going round infecting girlfriends even though he knew he was infectious. She had nasty scabs on her face. She killed him off in the launderette, I think she brained him against something.

This is driving me crazy!

Back to the Beginning

No, not of LOCI, but of my movie-making. This is the first one I ever made, and it's just coming up to 6 months old.

I just LOVE Bobby's Season 6 hair!



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Three in One

We have THREE VDO films on in the UK tonight - Guy, The Cell and FMJ. I have only capped Guy, which I posted quite recently, and I can't post the others without going over to Eliza's website to borrow. As I have just lost most of the evening in (wonderful, wouldn't-have-missed-them-for-the-world) phone calls, I don't have time to do that, so I'm just going to leap into my Bucket albums and throw in something even I'm not expecting.

Lookee here - up came Cold Comfort!

Madi's made it!

Had a phone call from Madi about an hour ago. She's in England - yay!

True to form, British Bureaucracy has messed up her paperwork. The guy she saw on Monday had left by Friday, and as he didn't even know what he was doing, he can't possibly have passed much on to his successor.

Can't wait till we all have the chance to hook up.

Vocab Builder

I just rediscovered my book of weird words and thought a couple I found would fit nicely into V-sentences.

Paizogony: love play; petting
Sapid: having a pleasant flavour; having intellectual interest.

"While engaged in paizogony with Vincent D'Onofrio, I discovered how sapid he is - in both senses of the word."

DAW

Clever Bobby v. Slime Personified.














Not forgetting, of course, the Harold Shipman lookalike. Pity the real thing's dead, I'm not a vengeful person, but I would like to think he'd spent longer suffering in jail.

Political Correctness gone bonkers

Not long after I'd had my hip replaced, the John Lewis department store at the huge Bluewater shopping centre installed grab rails in their public toilets. The cubicles are not very wide, and the further restriction of rails on BOTH SIDES made it very difficult for someone on the large side, with limited flexibility (like me on both counts) to get inside and close the door.

At the second attempt, I managed to get someone to look into the reasons for this ridiculous attempt to make the toilets more "accessible" to disabled people.

Guess who they are doing it for? People with one arm - they could be missing either arm, after all. Why does the loss of an arm mean someone needs a grab rail in a toilet? Surely that's not who grab rails are designed to help? Aren't they for people like me, who are stiff and doddery from things like arthritis?

But I ask you - how common is it to have only one arm, compared to a hip replacement or arthritis? No other store in the shopping centre has such a ludicrous set-up, nor do the shopping centre toilets themselves, which are much wider anyway.

There is actually a disabled toilet next door to the main toilets. The fact that the flashy electronic lock rarely works should be more of a concern to the store's management, rather than misinterpreting the accessibility requirements.

I just emailed Head Office. I will keep you posted on any further nonsense I hear from the Jobsworths.

My Shortcomings

These are many, but at the moment, what is on my mind is how many gaps there are in my episode-capping. Fica Di Capo is on tonight, and it's the second in a row I haven't yet got sorted.

I hope you don't mind some Good Luck instead.





Just look at those shoulders!

God I love this film.

Footnote

On the subject of cats - see below - while at the zoo on Monday I overheard a woman talking to her husband and child in front of the Serval enclosure.

"It's a meerkat. I'm sure it's a meerkat."

Strangely enough, I was able to put her right.

Meerkat:




Serval:


Not much difference then.

Of Cats and Kings

Well, not the kings, actually, but cats - mmm.

I have seven cats. I never intended to have this many. I do not breed them. They all happened into my life in some other way.

When I saw the Ashera, I was stunned. I really wanted one - though as it is HUGE (just look at the size of the one next to the young girl) and a cross between the Asian Leopard Cat, the Serval and an undisclosed domestic cat, it would probably savage my existing cats. It also costs up to £17,600, so forget it.












The Bengal cat is a more manageable version of the wild-looking cat, being a cross just between the Asian Leopard Cat and a domestic breed. It is now down to an F5 hybrid, so not very close to the wild animal any more.












A friend is the secretary of the Bengal Cat Society, and it appears that a woman member has died unexpectedly, leaving 9 cats without homes. Not all are purebred (she-cats on heat being as devious as they are and always on the lookout for a scruffy tom to mate with) but all are beauties. And they are looking for new homes.

I wonder how my cats would take to a mini leopard in the house...