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Godwin'ed. thread ends.

free NLA breakfast talk on the olympic velodrome if anyone is interested...

The Gladstone off Borough High St behind Borough tube - is lovely if you catch it on a reasonably quiet night (it is tiny though so sometimes too busy). I like the Lord Clyde - off Southwark Br Rd/ Marshalsea Rd and it has picnic tables in front for warm evenings.

I thought it might be so it would look like you were taking photos of the toad in various places (as people do with toys/props) instead of your bike...

messed up my work schedule... out. have fun y'all.

they are just so lovely and incongruous, unexpected to find something crafted in that way and vulnerable compared with the hard concrete street furniture and surfaces that are more typical and surround it.

i think there is this idea that when you put something like that out in the public realm, people actually take care of it more, because it can be damaged (whether a delicate timber screen or a nice flowerbed) and it changes the way people respond to their city. of course it only takes someone wilfully destructive to ruin it for everyone, but sometimes it's nice to make the city for the benefit of most people, not make it indestructible by a minority.

nice! love these :)
(and well done on not getting them on streetview)

why :/ yas?

nice new clue :)

When i upload a photo onto here it just comes onto a thumb nail. How can i get it big on the page like others do?

the way I like to post photos is to attach them first and make the post, open the thumbnails in another tab or something so you have their location, then edit the post and add them in using IMG tags. it works so long as the Attachments thing is working, which usually takes a few goes... i think Schick taught me that one.

if you missed Vivian Maier exhib at kings cross as I did, it's on at Photofusion until 16th September. worth a look. http://photofusion.org/gallery/photography/exhibitions/current/default.htm

I could see it was a revelation to some of the women there, some of whom turned out to be riding bikes that were the wrong size.

curious - how did they know?

Nhatt - not much experience myself but setting yourself up as the expert/consultant/roaming/inhouse whatsit sounds like you avoid the overheads and major business costs of setting up shop. maybe good idea to start with.

+1 staff were lovely, even when it was elbows out busy and messy.

^^^ great shot of dino

Yes, you want swaps?

just tried them on again, and no, I don't think the Ls would work. sorry. there were quite a few white Ms though...

Ah so it was you - looked up from't purchasing at till and spotted you, put my pin in, looked bck up and you'd gone

oh, hello anyway!

I wear mediums in the shorts. I actually find it's the opposite - I'm a high street Large, but a Rapha Medium... you might be able to persuade someone on the door to do you a quick swop if you go back? there were loads of shorts... or last year there was no queue at all later in the day.

I have mediums... they are damn tight, but I think they're supposed to be like that. maybe. I had some that came with women's medium jersey last year and I think they were smaller maybe. I can't really imagine I have 'large' arms. Sorry, waffling...

Very pleased with the women's club jersey, short sleeved, half-zip, mesh sides. Got the blue.

you have larges and you want mediums?

oh that reminds me, Silverprint are doing 3 for 2 on HP5+ at £8 something in total, and for anyone still doing RA4 prints they have Kodak Supra 8x10" at £10 for 50 sheets! so tempted to buy loads and stick it in the freezer...

beautiful...

was by there (Icco) yesterday, very tempted to have pizza for lunch but resisted. it was good then?

also, Franco Manca is open for dinner on thursdays (brixton).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/25/chinese-rail-crash-cover-up-claims
*Officials also ordered more coverage of "extremely moving" stories, such as blood donations, and said the overall theme should be "great love in the face of great disaster".
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anyone see the news a couple of nights ago of diggers rolling train carriages into trenches?! fucked. up.

had to pick up my bike/tank from kingsx and swung by again at 11.35 but no-one in sight, not in DC, not in Morley's... did y'all actually go home?!

Chaps?! Women not welcome?

hactually... I think the 2nd happens to be the next Ladies' Drinks, not sure of location.

ha! oops...

I'm always thanking drivers, for not rear-ending me, for slowing down, for letting me out etc. I suppose it's a bit daft as most of the time I'm basically thanking them for not running me over... but I like to just acknowledge that they've taken the care to modify their driving in some way to accomodate me. I worry a bit that I'm not super smiley, and I can't bring myself to do thumbs up or anything, so it's more of a half-smile, a nod, a wave or whatever.

One of the things I like about London traffic, and that I think sets it apart from most other towns I've been in, is that there is a lot of give and take. Even though it might appear chaotic and aggressive, it's actually rather flexible and accomodating. Drivers generally look out for unexpected behaviour, they're used to being temporarily inconvenienced. They might be a bit rude about it but they're used to interacting with other road users (and wandering pedestrians) who they know will read situations differently and maybe respond differently to them.

It's when you get out to the towns and drivers basically aren't looking out for anything, they drive the same roads everyday and they aren't expecting bikes, even if they do see you they think you "shouldn't be there" and are extremely reluctant to change anything about the way they are driving. That's when I feel nervous. It's like they're going to drive straight through you...

Stay in the city, it's safer here.

/actuallylivesintheprovinces

@lileth: I had no idea spiders shed their skin with the legs attached and all - that's amazing. and wierd. do they go into a little hibernation while they're doing it or do they just one day walk out of their old skin? how come it has ten legs?! (am I being really stupid)