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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Boo, I had to leave the bike at home today for various reasons and am jealous. I agree with you about the motorbikes - thankfully I don't tend to encounter many on my route (gawd bless her majesty's canals!) apart from the INCREDIBLY STUPID young lads who ride those miniature motorised scooter things up and down the towpath at Bethnal Green, with their knees up by their ears. They're horrendously loud and dangerous and it makes them look very silly indeed. I DUNNO THE YOUTH OF TODAY etc

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

i HATE THOSE. evil. loud and the idiots seem to think driving up and down the same stretch of road over and over and over is fun. dudes: there are other streets besides mercury way to annoy people.

[dogrando.livejournal.com]

Drummond Road, for example...

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

thing is: do they have any idea how utterly lame they look?
sheesh!