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The car was serviced today, and we were given a little runabout to get home in. I have decided that I no longer wish to drive a manual car. Automatics make life much easier. I haven't exactly forgotten how to change gears, despite not getting my regular week of practice at this year's Camp, but I'm not very good at it.

Meme: today's topic is London

As requested by ladymoonray


My grandma was born in the East End, was fiercely proud of being a Londoner (and not altogether secretly felt rather superior to my 'country boy' grandad), and always loved going to London for whatever kind of occasion. We took her for a tourist bus ride for her eighty-fifth birthday, and it made her very happy.

London's always been my favourite city too. When I was a child/teenager, we had to 'dress up' to go into Town, which was usually for a show or some kind of event, or to a museum. I think the first time I was allowed to go to London without an adult was just after O-Levels; four of us from the boarding house went to see Tommy in the West End (and staggered out with our balance mechanisms completely fucked by the incredibly over-loud sound).
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A couple of ridiculous links via Skepchick:

Tortoises wearing cosies

and

a dancing robot spider

and also

Peacock spiders in mating displays from WTF, Evolution?


Also, my Boy is getting a new, improved job in the new year. *pride*