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Had a nice but brief chat with I am Hingis (assuming you to be the poster formerly known as Shinigami) along Walworth Road this morning.

So I am stuck in Florida at a conference. Disney Boadwalk Hotel just outside Orlando. Need to get to see the game. There is an ESPN sports bar. Go there. They are showing the Manc game and the Barca game. No idea where might be showing the game I want to see. Bump into a fellow attendee of the conference. An English Millwall fan who lives in Saratosa. Explain my problem. He comes up with three bars in the area showing the match. We get a cab together. First bar is shut. Second bar open. $35 for the cab there. Basically a hut by the side of a freeway clad in mock Tudor. Go in. About half a dozen people in there. All apart from a bar maid English. They turn off Emmerdale and put on the match. Landlord was English and around 50 and Spurs. Two of the punters were late 60s and Wolves, one with a newly acquired Wolves tat on his calf. Everyone is behind the English side. We win. The cab returns. Another $35 back to the hotel and the conference.

A window into a world that I will never encounter again. I suppose all over Florida there are little bars like that serving ex pat retirees and somehow making a living.

I lived in California for three years in the mid 90's and found a couple of haunts that sound not too disimilar to this. Places like that provide some old home comforts to the expat community. To an extent, we are all just "Brits" to them and more often than not I was fending off questions from the natives about whether I was from Liverpool and knew the Beatles or some random bloke call Bob or somesuch from Birmingham.

I always considered myself an expat during my stay there and for that brief period would cheer on any English club against foreign opposition.

I don't miss my stay over there.

FWIW - there are loads of very good and reasonably priced offerings in Brixton Village. We tried Elephant (Pakistani food) in there on Saturday. Had a keema thali for £8.00 - seriously good grub and highly recommended.

I have to be slightly pedantic here - The point of Insurance is, in most cases, to indemnify you in the event of a loss - that is, to put you in the same position financially as you were before your loss. That is the product.

People and businesses engage in the business of insurance to make a profit.

Whether its worth it or not really depends on how you view the risk and the cost of passing on the risk.

I've got the Full Windsor. It's a cable tie thing and although a little flimsy, it seems to work okay. The cable ties keep it relatively secure.

Only complaint is that it gets in the way of where tend to mount my rear light on the seat tube.

^^ The other half was surprisingly understanding and I should be allowed out to play again!

Good to meet a few people last night - I will no doubt show my face again.

Is this confirmed as the Coach and Horses?

Another decent parking spot in the area is the courtyard inside the Quaker's building opposite Euston Station. They have security in the reception area but they never asked for any ID etc when I have gone in and locked there. We had some classes there when I was at Birkbeck.

For any City types that might populate this thread, I would like to recommend Association Coffee on Creechurch Lane. Was treated to an Ethiopian offering yesterday rather than the usual Hasbean blend for my mid-morning flat white and was impressed. Both are good (and I am using Hasbean at home at the moment) but the change was welcome. It turns out they will be sampling a variety of new beans in the coming weeks. Well worth a visit.

They also sell what I consider to be the finest brownies in town which I understand come from a chap that delivers by bike called Little Bread Pedlar. These things are special - get involved!

I've just finished a course at Birkbeck and locked in the area between SOAS/Birkbeck/Senate House for four years without any issues. Bit of a walk from Chandler House though.

In terms of Brunswick, I've only ever really been comfortable leaving my bike at the stands right outside the Waitrose as there is so much activity there along with the ATM and its CCTV.

Cheers.

Will come along for a couple next time.

to be clear when i say the decor is fucked what i mean is eyes were raped

I was there for dinner last night and the missus and I were commenting on how much we liked the quirky decor. I fully accept that I am probably an interior decorating philistine. Ho hum.

Have only recently moved into the area and will make a point of popping along to South beers soon, wherever it ends up moving to.

I bought a sofa-bed from Made.com - generally pleased with it.

With regard to delivery, you need to read about the lead time and expected shipping dates. My understanding is that they don't have these things sitting in a warehouse ready to ship like Amazon but sart selling while the stock is in production. From memory, we had to wait about two months for our sofa.

The Cambria by Loughborough Junction is a cracking spot.

lived in london - kilburn, edgware road, stepney green and bethnal green none of which could be called sheltered areas - all my life and this is still massively shocking.

This really.

I have lived in East, West and now South London - and not the most salubrious of parts either - and I find this story and that it is perhaps not so uncommon quite shocking.

Having said that, a couple of weeks ago, a group of yoofs (about 5 of them aged between 14-16) between Oval & Camberwell tried tried to stop the missus, who was in front of me at the time, saying "Stop and search". I pulled out from behind the missus, told her to carry on riding and told the one I thought looked like the ringleader to go forth and multiply in no uncertain terms. They fucked off and we went home.

This sort of stuff makes me look at encounters like that in a slightly different light.

Stay safe all.

This morning at the top of Newington Causeway, corner of Borough St, I was passed by three fearless RLJer's as I waited at the light. With traffic going across, the three made their way through and north but were promptly stopped by a group of plod who were, funnily enough, just across the road from the plod shop. I can't say that I was overly sympathetic as I passed them.

However, if you are inclined to RLJ, then plod seem to be out on a few corners of Borough High St/ Newington Causeway.

Northlondonlight in LMNH this eve.

Good company, good ale, good times.

A chap on an immaculate orange Colnago rolling up Walworth Road this morning.

I did comment as I passed but nonetheless, that was a lovely bike. You don't see many like that on the morning commute.

There's an Eritrean restaurant on Harrow Road called Mosob. Just east of Great West Road about opposite the Sainsbury's on the corner of Elgin Ave

Well priced and good stuff. No cutlery, just pancakes.

We had style in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s. I am doing my bit to ensure that we retain some of that now.

Maybe. But you were stylishly shit like my lot for most of that time.

The smelly bastards from Hammersmith & Fulham that supported Chelsea back then had a certain charm too. Style is stretching it.

It is undoubtedly a certain "style" and perhaps not my favourite.

Then again I think that football has been pretty much deficient of charm since the terraces went (although away days have their moments).

I will accept that there is one Chelsea supporter from Sailsbury who is clearly unwashed. I have written about him to no avail on many occasions. His odour stands out from the rest of us who are more usually bathed in fine cologne.

There used to be loads of them - smelly old buggers they were.

That was back when they were were a local West London club catering to the rank and file of Hammersmith & Fulham.

I thought Chelsea had a certain charm back in those days.

How times change.

Wow - some fine trolling by Johnny back there.

Anyway, without getting into discussions about generally cycling on pavements responsibly or otherwise, Clive was, in my opinion, completely right to have a word about cycling on that particular bit of pavement. It is entirely inappropriate to cycle on the narrow pavement of Lombard street. Particularly during busy city lunchtimes and also as pointed out when there is a perfectly good contra flow cycle lane down there.

In other news the A3 was awash with mentalists going on the inside of buses and hgv's this morning as usual. Too many to call out - I just keep calm and carry on.

Does anyone know whether you can get into the olympic park for a wonder around if you have tickets for the wembley arena?

I doubt it.

I went yesterday and the tickets were scanned at entry to the park and again at entry to the specific stadium. My take was that if your ticket wasn't for that arena or had been used prior, you would be escorted out by Her Majestey's forces. Very good experience going to it and then well worth going during the either the Olympics or Paralympics just to see the whole thing whilst it is up an running.

I may go back during the Paralympics (should tickets be available) and go on the Orbit and generally take some pictures of the Olympic park.