BBC News report here. The fire seems to be out, and while there are still lots of people making the area safe, there’s only a few people using hosepipes on the building at the moment. It’s quite interesting to see everything being co-ordinated – fire, police, ambulance, water board, gas board, Hackney council and the [...]

Some random photos taken with my mobile phone. I’ve just come back from Oslo where it was bitterly cold. I don’t think this moped is moving until the spring. On the floor of St Pancras, there are lots of quotes; I particularly like this one: “imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems [...]

In the middle of Leicester Square is a statue of William Shakespeare. It depicts him with a scroll with (as a quick Google reveals) a line from Twelfth Night IV ii: There is no darkness but ignorance Which strikes me as a pretty good motto. On the plinth is the legend This enclosure was purchased, [...]

Went to the rather lovely Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve today. Having just moved to Cambridgeshire, Mrs Dave and I wanted to see the fens and I’m glad we went – I’m sure we’re going to go back with slightly sturdier footwear. There’s a couple of pretty easy walks – one, the boardwalk, is fully [...]

Norm ‘Normblog’ Geras is running a posterity collection poll. The story is that, civilization approaching its possible doom (not really, but it’s the premise of the poll), the normblog readership has been assigned the task of assembling for posterity a representative collection of the Arts of Humankind, to be preserved in a sealed container so [...]

As various people have noted (not least Septic Isle), s76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act is somewhere between barmy and 1984. The relevant section reads 58A Eliciting, publishing or communicating information about members of armed forces etc (1) A person commits an offence who— (a) elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is [...]

Alice said yes. xD.

This cheery fellow woke me this morning with his song. Click for a larger version. xD.

The voting and campaigning is over and now we wait. Click the image for a full size version; it was taken today around half past four. One of the tragedies of local elections is that many hardworking local councillors who care more for their community than any particular party affiliation will lose their seats because [...]

It said so on the Tube, so it must be true. xD. PS & if anyone wants to edit the photo to put in Gordon B, be my guest!