The London Eye

I were taken round it twice last week with complimentary champers. Tis very high, innit.

WHO WILL UNJADE ME?

Whoever said it's the only reminder left of the Millennium is forgetting the wobbly bridge!

this one is true.

eyesore nothing.

the london eye is fucking wicked.

lets have a party on it. one pod = 225 quid to hire.

(st pauls = eyesore, bogus design, squat goblin-spoor nightmare oppressing the brains of the living blah blah)

THE LONDON NOSE - would have to be situated in Billingsgate or somewhere whiffy. Enjoy the full odorama of our beloved city!

THE LONDON TONGUE - poss. in Soho. Or Mark C's house. I'm a bit sketchy on the details of this one.

THE LONDON EAR - MI5 building, obv. - eavesdrop on people on the other side of town!

etc etc etc etc

I will go on the Eye this week, I think.

> THE LONDON NOSE

this does actually exist, on admiralty arch. was touched for good luck by soldiers leaving for war.

oddly, flickr seems to think there's another london nose in traf square.

parents have sprung surprise two day visit on me so am scouring old threads for ideas. not helped by dad's inability to walk for more than 10 minutes. panic!

The London Eye is great. Especially fun if you have a vertigo sufferer with you. Apart from Neil clinging onto the bench and refusing to look down for most of it, I thoroughly enjoyed it. We went up during the marathon and watched lots of people running round the corner at Big Ben and were level with all the helicopters, which was good. I want to go back up in the twilight when it's still light enough to see but there are lights on everywhere.

> Big Ben

classic tourist mistake 8)

but one i plan on capitalising on. have figured their first sight of the middle of london (and not w6 / w12 which they saw last night) will be tower of westminster as seen from exit of westminster tube station, which always impresses me. then up to traf square past downing street, the mall as far as ica (they can see buck house from there without having to walk all the way down). up to pic circus (it's a road junction. and a coke advert. still...). tube to holborn. will try and get terracota army tickets (it's the one thing my mum has mentioned wanting to see, am guessing she saw it on tv last week). what to do after 2 o'clock, or tomorrow, still a bit of a mystery...

if you see me at poptimism with two old(er) people, that'll be them.

oh, minus points to the hoody last night who announced to his 3 hoody friends that he needed a piss and went there and then, in the street, just as we were walking past.

> Big Ben

classic tourist mistake 8)

You trying to tell me Big Ben isn't on that corner too? It is, you know, housed right in that clock tower at the end of the Palace of Westminster. Don't you try and out-pedant me :-)

ah, but you were talking about watching people and you can't *see* big ben. 8)

BM at 14:45 ish, sign on board saying they were selling tickets for entry at 18:30. oh um. still, saved us £36 quid.

mum used tube ticket upside down, barrier didn't open. dad following straight behind used his without waiting for her to fix things. barrier opened. she got through with her ticket in hand but gates closed on him. couldn't use his ticket again because it'd already been used once. confusion.

the people doing toy demonstrations at hamleys are all twunts.

barrier opened. she got through with her ticket in hand but gates closed on him. couldn't use his ticket again because it'd already been used once. confusion.

Classic tourist mistake! :)

I intend to take a 2 year old on the london eye next week. I hope he doesn't turn out to be a vertigo sufferer, or else there could be trouble for everyone.

the people doing toy demonstrations at hamleys are all twunts.

Aye, some goon tried to smack me on the head with a model airplane TWICE, the wee clown.

so beautiful

stood waiting patiently for mother to make up her mind in hamleys. 'have you seen these?' said bloke pointing at the things i was stood in front of 'i'm ok thanks' i said, politely expressing my complete lack of interest. 'i know but have you seen these?'. i'm ok thanks'. 'i can see you're ok but have you seen these?'.

anyway, today dad gave up at lunchtime so took mum for walk in hyde park. only we went down exhibition row first and got sucked into science museum, natural history museum and v&a. then the spirally thing by the serpentine art centre. then the pond.

parents currently on 9th floor of hotel and dad doesn't like lifts... he also seems most taken of all by heathrow flightpath...

heard talk on radio the other day that greenwich had applied for a wheel of its own. get one new idea.

We walked under the eye and pushed our way through 80 million people forming an orderly queue. It looked nice. We saw a newsreader whose last name is Snow.