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Year: 2008

  • This is true love – you think this happens every day?!?

    Name the film which the title of this post is from and I’ll owe you a beer. But more important than that is new that I have recently proposed to my girlfriend and we are to get married. This is the very best of news (to quote a sketch I once saw). I have drunk…

  • Top ten places to wonder around in London

    I often read lists of top ten things to do, books to read, films to see. A London focused list of Top Ten Summer Outings on TheOldWorld made me think that my most reliable favorite outing is walking around the city with my camera and photographing whatever takes my interest. So here’s my Ten places…

  • A captive audience

    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…

  • HD Sunglasses

    An excellent example of a company jumping on the latest technology bandwagon to promote something completely unrelated. I guess they wouldn’t do it if people didn’t buy it.

  • I hate Ikea. That is all.

    I shouldn’t really hate Ikea, and I’m a hypocrite for doing so, but I can’t help it. I live near a store and over the last 12 months it has been invaluable for buying cheap functional attractive furniture for my new flat. Especially when it came to a new sofa, as we couldn’t get anything…

  • A very specific emergency

    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.

  • Open air icecream

    Haagen-Dazs have set up an open air ice ream parlor by Liverpool street tube in Broadgate circle, where the ice rink is during the winter. They’ve laid down some astroturf, put up an airy marque and laid out a few dozen cushions and a few sun loungers. Considering the decent weather we’re having the place…

  • Don't judge a film by it's name.

    I am undeniably a fan of Bond films, and particularly of the new direction they have taken with Daniel Craig. Although the next film isn’t due for release until November there is a teaser trailer online already. Enjoy. Even if it is called “Quantum of Solace”. ***UPDATE*** The trailer has made it to YouTube now:

  • It's the piccadilly line. But not as we know it.

    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 wodge…

  • Tom's brought a new toy

    Here’s a new toy I have just brought. I already have a Canon SLR but mine is slightly older, (a 400D) and this is brand new. It is also not for me, but for my sister. Needless to say I am jealous. The kit lense has image stabalisation, the camera has spot metering and live…