Salmon have been introduced to the River Thames after experts declared the water clean enough for the fish to breed – after almost 200 years.
More at: news.bbc.co.uk
The annual family holiday to Cumbria, staying on the west coast. Not as many landscape pictures as I’d hoped after I sprained my foot on the 2nd day.
A (very) small light exhibition around More London and tower bridge
A bright cold day in greenwich followed by snowy scenes a few days latter in Leytonstone
“Freeware application Schmap Player lets you navigate any of a number of Schmap travel guides currently covering a total of 199 travel destinations across the globe”
More at: http://lifehacker.com
“It’s hard to believe, but Wembley stadium is finally complete. Jonathan Glancey tours the 90,000-seat, £800m modern marvel, from royal box to England dressing room”
More at: football.guardian.co.uk
I was reminded of this Trigger Happy TV sketch this morning:
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This piece of ‘journalism’ quite annoyed me, and was somehow(?) picked up by the Londonist:
“Local Paper compares Footy mishap to Gang Rape – That was the headline that greeted readers of Tom Duncan’s column in the Newham Recorder last week. His comparison of watching a football team under perform to watching a loved one gang raped is undoubtedly the crassest and most offensive local news headline we’ve ever seen. The story was picked up on a Leyton Orient FC message board where fans showed their disgust at the article and rallied a bevy of complaints to the paper and the Press Complaints Commission.”
More at: www.londonist.com
“During research I learned that people can sleep when their bodies are held in a rigid state as opposed to only a soft and yielding state – similar to most beds. I applied this concept to the Excubo jacket – a jacket that transforms into a firm and protective shell around the user.”
More at: london-underground.blogspot.com
