Range Rover gets towed away

Sometimes you see something that makes your day because you know that it will spoil someone else’s. Seeing a Range Rover with blacked out windows being towed away for a parking infringement in Kensington is one of those sometimes…

Ikea minibus registration plate

Registration plate on a shuttle service minibus between Stonebridge Park tube station and Ikea in Wembley…

I should be a galangal farmer!

Fresh galangal ready for preparation (from Wikipedia)

Galangal is a root that looks a bit like ginger and is used in Thai cooking.  Before Oriental City (a big supermarket and food court that used to be near our house) closed, we used to buy it and Annette pounded and ground it up with lemon grass, [...]

The shortest traffic diversion in the world?

Could this be the shortest traffic diversion in the world?  Spotted between Ruislip and Eastcote while taking Timothy for a walk today!

The shortest diversion in the world?

Seen in Eastcote

Miserable Jack’s Fish & Chips

We went to try “Jack’s Fish & Chips” in Uxbridge after having had a great meal at their other shop near Windsor a couple of years ago, but found the Uxbridge shop to be so miserable that we won’t be returning…

Someone lost their Maserati today

A big Maserati sports car passed me in South Kensington today – with its security alarm wailing away… it was on the back of a traffic warden’s truck…

Shop Names (archive to 2008)

Knobs & Knockers

Fat people not allowed on the train platform

Go Gay

Past Caring

Ebeneezer Wildwood

Taylor Made Fun

“Taylor Made Fun” is an amusement arcade in Cleethorpes.

Taylor Made Fun

Spotted in Cleethorpes.

It was just about the only thing open on a cold and damp October Friday evening.  It’s funny, you visit Cleethorpes as a child and remember it being big, exciting, and great for fish and chips.  Then you go on your own [...]