London is an apocalyptic City

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The end of the world is nigh, and it’s started in London (the beginning of the end). When you’re there, and in its rougher boroughs or mingling in its underbelly, you can feel it.
Media coverage of London is hardly ever positive these days - it’s all about gun crime, knife crime, 19 teenagers [...]

Getting Pissed on the Tube - One Last Time

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One of Boris Johnson’s first policies was a drinking ban on the tube, effective from June 1st (i.e. today).
LastOrdersOnTheUnderground, to celebrate one last time, had put out a call for the last party on the Circle Line (= the tube that just goes around in a circle, with no beginning [...]

Adventures in Chav-land

In London this week-end my chav friend J. (22) told me that his next tattoo will read:
White and Proud
I asked him why, and which whites are included in this pride thing:

English? Yes
German? Yes
Polish? Noooooooooooooo
Hungarian? Yes

This doesn’t make sense on two counts:

Polish people ARE white
How can you be proud of the colour of your skin?

I told [...]

A Day Out in London

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Ever since moving back up to Edinburgh, the time I do spend in London (every other week-end) is actually really productive and pleasurable.
When still living there, at week-ends my BF and I would tend to be knackered, moody, and staying indoors. Now, we plan in advance what we’re going to do, and are [...]

New WordPress Dashboard, New Header Image

WordPress have launched a new dashboard, and I’ve uploaded yet another new header.
The thing about this dashboard is that Zemanta has disappeared from my options, which I don’t mind too much, but still wondering why.
Thus far, I quite like the dashboard, apart from the widget section. For each widget column, you now have to select [...]

Wifi Woes (sort it out National Express)

I have to scribble a bit of text offline and paste it into my blog later. I’m on the train to London, and roughly half an hour or so ago, the free wifi turned into ‘Whenever you want to surf any page other than http://www.nationalexpresswifi.train/, you will be redirected to http://www.nationalexpresswifi.train/ without fail. You will [...]

My Friends’ House

Source: WikipediaI went to see my friends at their new house today. It’s in a wee village or rather a large group of houses. It’s amazing how quickly you are deep in the countryside when driving out of Edinburgh. In London, just getting out to nowhere simply isn’t possible, as there are always houses, neverending.
On [...]

Back to EDI and back at Wrk Tomorrow

I’m on the train right now - we’ve just passed Darlington, and I should be back home within two hours. Annoyingly, the sockets on the train that read Laptops and mobile phones only please don’t seem to have any juice in them - so I’m limping around on my battery, with 48% left.
I completed the [...]

G. Went Missing Yesterday

G., V.’s 13-year-old daughter, went missing yesterday. She simply didn’t come home, even though she was meant to be home by 5.30PM (there was a stabbing on Mare Street).
Thus, when I went over to see them this morning - we had planned to do something together while I’m in London - they were really distraught. [...]

On the Train to London

I’m going to London just now, will be there in approx. one hour. Quite comfy, compared to the coach last week-end
Today I received my first pay-cheque in the post, and was positively surprised in that my net income is quite a bit higher than in my last job. I thought it would be [...]