Tom Steel

This morning something strange happened.
On a crowded Northern Line train a seat was left empty. the three men standing over it were all too polite to even acknowledge the seat which was left vacant at Angel and it was still empty when I left at Old Street.
How peculiar.

This is a post I started writing a month ago but things have been busy recently. Better late than never…
There’s been quite a few sites and features which have caught my eye over the last few days, so here’s a little summary of what’s stood out for me:
Shiny Shiny’s website of the week combines two [...]

Following that post on HD sunglasses here’s one on some new advertising to hit London’s tube. Last October TFL started trailing some new video projection adverts on the tube on the platforms.
Large projectors were set up at Euston which would project silent videos onto the wall across from where people stand waiting for the tube. [...]

I wonder what kind of emergency they expect at Highbury and Islington which would demand an emergency cupboard.
Who knows.
It would certainly make a good caption competition.

Last night I was shopping for a present for a good friend of mine at work who’s leaving this week. As they commute long stretches of the tube each day I decided what they would most like to receive as a leaving present would be An Illustrated Guide to the Piccadilly Line (and a [...]

Living in and around London all my life it’s easy to take a lot of things for granted. I’m always interested to read other peoples fresh experiences of the city, especially visitors from other countries, as I think it’s good to be reminded of some of the everyday things which you can so easily get [...]