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Sydney’s best hot chocolate
Behind this unprepossessing small shop front, tucked in amongst a row of shops near the Sydney Cricket Ground, is Sydney’s best hot chocolate. The ground floor is a tiny, cramped shop with a view of the chocolate machines on site. Head up to the stairs and you find another tiny, cramped space – but this [...]
My favourite… park entry sign
Courtesy of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney this is how to write the legalistic small print at a park’s entrance:
Pizza Express: South Woodford
Having talked toilets, it is time to talk power points once more. Pizza Express is one of those chains now advertising free WiFi in many of its outlets but also is following the fashion not to advertise electricity power points. Which strikes me as odd given how often people worry about having to recharge their batteries; what [...]
Pizza Express: High Road, Loughton
This Pizza Express in, as the estate agents would say, picturesque Loughton is done up in the new stripey (sophisticated continental or criminal with a bag of swag, delete as you wish) look. Complete with tree silhouettes on the wall, marking the Loughton Pizza Express’s closeness to Epping Forest. Which makes the toilet signs interesting. [...]
The best Ping Pong photo ever taken
Even better as sporting photos go than the one of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro playing golf is this Ping Pong masterpiece.
We need more of these news stories
The Daily Telegraph brings the news: A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he made a rude gesture at a group of Hells Angels, hurled a puppy at them and then escaped on a stolen bulldozer. Oh, and in the process the student also dropped his pants. And what’s more, the [...]
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy: I admire the dustbin
Earlier in the week I finally got the time to see the film version of Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy. As others have said, it’s a fantastic movie. As is to be expected, there is rather less of the detailed “who was it?” detective twists and turns than in the book or lengthy TV adaptation. But [...]
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
If this book were a movie, it would be a three hour art house hit which some critics rave about whilst others bemoan its length, saying it would be far better at half the length. For although it is nearly 600 pages long, not very much happens. There certainly is a plot, but it moves [...]
Pizza Express: St Christophers Place
So, what to say about the Pizza Express in Barrett Street, St Christophers Place? Well, it continues the saga of strange toilet signage – for not only is the men’s toilets indicated by a sign with a shoe on it, but the A4 paper signs showing the way to the shoe-adorned door show silhouettes on which [...]
