So, it’s time for another bit of a personal update to my blog I reckon. It’s all been rather busy recently, especially so with work and college. Yesterday I finished the classroom study element of C4 (Fundamentals of Business Economics) on the CIMA/CBA course. I think that I chose an especially good time to study […]
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
Surely this has to be one of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year?! I CAN’T WAIT! Posted a couple of trailers below, one is one of the ‘old’ ones from 2008, whereas the second is the new (and final) trailer which has just been released. Although the dementors do not attack London in […]
Kingston-upon-Thames
Was walking through Kingston-upon-Thames last week and finally got chance to snap a couple of pictures of the ‘Out Of Order’ public art piece by David Mach that has been around almost as long as I’ve been alive! Kingston-upon-Thames is also very well known for The Coronation Stone: The Coronation Stone is an ancient stone […]
Oxford Circus to get a ‘Shibuya’ crossing
SOURCE: New Civil Engineer (Ed Owen) £5M Work to renovate the congested Oxford Circus crossing on London’s busiest street begins today, to create diagonal crossings designed by Atkins similar to those at Tokyo’s iconic Shibuya crossing. Oxford Circus is where London’s two main shopping streets – Oxford Street and Regent Street – meet. Those exiting […]
Spontaneous outbursts of singing!
Forgetting all about that contrived (but still rather cool) dance piece at Liverpool Street the other month… something genuinely spontaneous happened on my rail replacement bus home last night. The driver was playing some pretty good songs over the speaker system (Pretty Woman, Brown Eyed Girl, a couple of Elvis tracks, some 80s air-grabbing power […]
Gari Wellingham 