Holborn Tram Station

I forgot to upload this a while ago. Anyone who’s been around Holborn will have noticed the old ramp down to the tram station, and wondered what was below Kingsway.

Behold the solution to London’s transport problems. One complete shell for a station. Yeah, the DDA and narrow platforms may be an issue, but isn’t [...]

Only the REAL ingredients make it

Real ingredients? As opposed to fake ingredients?

Glad I’m paying for only the best with Walker’s crisps.

I’m not in the office…

We’ve all done it. Had to send an email to someone and trusted the first response we got back.

This roadsign, in the Morristown area of Swansea, Wales, gives the correct message in English – “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only”. Apparently it was to make sure [...]

Boasting Lorry Driver?

Surprised Kitty

I’ve seen this so many times, it still makes me giggle.

Different Laws for Councils

Motorised Islington Council street-sweeper. On the pavement.

I know what it is, and I know what it’s doing.

But how come no other vehicles are allowed to just mount the pavement and drive around at will?

Is it just laziness? That’s my bike over on the left. I had to walk with it [...]

What price petrol

13.9 pence per litre. Is that cheap?

Doing it effectively, with DHL

Off the back of the City of Westminster’s poor attempts at parking properly, a subscriber to fnar, lets call him Disgruntled of Euston, sent me these pictures.

It’s a white van, parked on the street, I thought at first, but there were a couple of subtleties I picked up on. First was that the message [...]

Break the law to enforce the law…

I was stood on St Martin’s lane for about 30 minutes yesterday, watching this small CCTV car from Westminster City Council.

In case you can’t make it out, those are double yellow lines the car is parked on. They aren’t evident in the photograph, but there are double yellow kerb markings too. The explanatory [...]

Cruel but funny…

Opened my inbox today to find an email with the subject:

Bad day for Steps fans, H is dead

The contents of said email? One image…