Notes & borrowings

[juliet]

Observed on my way to work this morning:

• An RV1 with a big notice on the back saying "FUELCELL NO EMISSIONS". It had an exhaust pipe on the top of its roof, occasionally spitting out what looked to be steam - it dissipated almost immediately. Hrm, looks like they've extended this project, & that is indeed just water vapour. Good stuff.
• A motorbike at the junction of Southwark St with Blackfriars Bridge, waiting behind the regular white line instead of the cycle-advance white line. Hurrah. (this is sadly v rare; motorbikes all seem to be under the misapprehension that they are bicycles. Given the amount of engine-revving that goes on, you'd think this would be a difficult belief to sustain.)
• The Thames looking really very pretty as I came along the Embankment. Lots of red buses crossing Waterloo Bridge with the Eye as a backdrop. I sometimes think I don't pay enough attention to the scenery when I'm cycling, but then keeping one's eyes & attention on the road is also a Good Thing.

In other news: does anyone (ideally someone coming to BMovie tonight, for ease of borrowing) have an ankh necklace I can borrow for the weekend? Required for dressing-up purposes for this pubcrawl whatsit that dogrando has been up till all hours writing.

Comments

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

motorbikes all seem to be under the misapprehension that they are bicycles.

when it comes to advance stop lines, so do sports cars, any car costing more than say twenty thousand (I'm guessing here - how much are posh cars nowadays), white transits - and after 9pm, everyone.

chip on my shoulder? me?

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

and of course how could I forget any vehicle (but mainly innappriate four wheel drive monstrosities) driven by a Chiswick Mother and occupied by untethered Little Darling(s), mainly climbing over the back of the passenger seat.