Observations made while travelling on the last DLR train from Westferry to Lewisham via Canary Wharf on Saturday 2nd February, 2013

Feb 082013

Observations made while travelling on the last DLR train
from Westferry to Lewisham via Canary Wharf
on Saturday, 2nd February, 2013

by Lucy Munro

Heading home through lands where heels are high and skirts brief.
And a drunk man is shouting “Anyone for Mudchute?”

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Tagged with: DLR, Docklands, Isle of Dogs, Lucy Munro, Transport

Looking back through the clouds…

Speed Dating in Surbiton

by Sno Flo
The pub was a mini Orkney, not a lady in sight, only rugged men with frost-nibbled beards hugging pints and staring at us as if we were quarry shipped in from the Far East to replace local female stock escaped to parts less chilly and depressing, like Kingston. I ordered two rum and cokes (normal, not spiced – we’re not complete Jezebels), and asked myself the question every speed dater sporting two X chromosomes must: why were we bothering to pay fifteen smackers to meet men when there were so many free ones lying about? [read more...]