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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 [...]
Pizza Express: Westfield Centre, Stratford
Well, that was a Pizza Express visit and a half. To keep regular readers updated with the key information: Convenient powerpoints for gadget laden pizza fans? Yes. Turn left as you come in through the door and head to the wall by the hatstand. Toilet signage? Unlike the Sutton Pizza Express, the legs on the [...]
Pizza Express: High Street, Sutton
Fat legs. That is the distinguishing feature of Pizza Express, Sutton. Not on the staff or the other customers, but on the picture of a man on the toilet door. Very fat legs. Perhaps this is in homage to the nearby cycle lanes which feature unusually elongated bicycles painted on them? At any rate, the fat [...]
Pizza Express: Lavender Hill
What to say about Pizza Express Lavender Hill? Electricity! That’s what to say. Like many other places, Pizza Express has got into offering and boasting about having free WiFi. But it also (unadvertised, unboasted) provides that other key ingredient to keep a modern gadget fanatic fed: electricity, courtesy of these nicely located power points (in [...]
Lieutenant Hornblower
Though not written second, in chronological order Lieutenant Hornblower is the second of C.S. Forester’s novels about a British naval hero who was in many ways the James Bond of his time. The novels had their period of great success and were well-thought of by many, with Ernest Hemingway saying that, “I recommend Forester to [...]
