( It was Emma's birthday on Sunday, so we found a rainbow )

( Contains swearing ) But I like the handwriting.

( A ticket machine, but... )

( Out of date ) That means they shouldn’t be on sale, right?

( Next home match )

( Diana )

( You have to admire motorway service station architecture sometimes. ) And by “admire” I mean “mock”.

It’s an outside roof. So you can stand outside, breathe in fresh air, and not get wet even if it’s raining… right?

To make it look interesting, there are holes in the ceiling, through which rain doesn’t so much leak as waltz.

To make it look even more interesting, the pillars holding up the roof go through the holes. So if you lean against the pillars, you get wet.

…

Our coach later lost two and a half hours in a tailback caused by a six car pile-up.

( STOP LOOK AGAIN ← )

( A bus not arriving ) at Ally Pally. This was the afternoon after the morning before after the night before.

It arrived a minute later.

( The tombstone of Edmund Halley ) ( was taken to Greenwich when his tomb was restored )

( Teahouse )

( Not Goldie Looking Chain )

( The local cat ) keeps miaowing plaintively and demands to view whatever changes I have made to my flat recently. Her tail is bushy; apart from that she looks quite tigerish.

She won’t stay still to have her photo taken.

As I type this, she has just climbed into an empty box.

( The only poster I have put up ) on my bedroom door. It was the first thing that made my flat feel like a home.

( The River Wandle still has ducks )

( A local road sign ) giving directions to the M25. Take the fourth exit for Morden tube.

( These benches ) are kept in a cage for their protection and ours.

( In the distance ) you can see Canary Wharf.

( Intrepid tramwalkers ) trying to see Canary Wharf.

The bench clearly states that Ewan is a sod.

( Woodside timber )

( Fin ) That is all.

We blew up the ( balloons ) and discovered they came with enough static electricity to stick them to the walls. So we added some more static and stuck them to the ceiling.

Five of them were still there when I left this afternoon.

( The caterpillars ) were particularly difficult to blow up.

Jodi squirmelia is nearly 26.

( Our cat, Misfratz ), in a rare moment last night when she stayed still enough for me to take her photo.

Her miaow is more like a squeak.

( Her current favourite place ) is on top of the bookshelves in the living room. It sometimes looks as if she will fall off while climbing them.

Her weirdest habit is of sometimes licking foodstains off the floor near her food in preference to eating her food.

( HELP SICK KIDS ) Signs like this were on display throughout Somerfield; the Sun and Somerfield must be working together on this.

“Childrens’ hospices get just 5% in Government funding” — the other 95% comes from “charity and public donations”. What are public donations if they’re not charity? (I am not familiar with the phrase and assume it means donations from the public.)

Rather than ask their customers to donate their own money to these hospices, they ask them to donate other people’s money (via Government). Because childrens’ hospices “deserve more” tax money. Do they deserve more Government interference too? They’d get that for free with Government money.

Apparantly adult hospices aren’t worthy of support.

I don’t believe the Sun and Somerfield are actually interested in ensuring childrens’ hospices are well-funded. I think they want to be associated with good causes. It’s brand building.

Call me a cynic if you like; it’ll be theraputic.

( Safeway’s ) I don’t think building work has started on the new Tesco’s yet.

( Welcome ) But Morrison’s have already capitulated.

London’s river is the Thames, right? Well, there are others, and some of them aren’t confined to underground metal tubes: Here is the River Wandle sashaying its way nonchalantly through zone 4.

( Evidence )

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I can understand why a ticket machine might contain a hard disk, and I can accept that it would break eventually, but using a raid controller sounds like over-engineering.

This was at Mitcham Junction.

( You can still enjoy a ride on a Routemaster on Heritage Routes 9 & 15 )

I love living in a country where the police don’t try to queuejump at cashpoints.

( See )

(I also love living in a country where the editor of the best-selling newspaper can be arrested, without anyone thinking it’s because she offended the government.)

( Buses as far as the eye can see ) To be fair to TfL, there’s two A roads merging from the south, and a tube line terminating from the north. And about half the buses from the south terminate at Brixton. But still.

( Photo )