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Bidet Is For Customers’ Use Only

Oct 242013

Bidet Is For Customers’ Use Only

Bidet, Theobalds Road - click to enlarge

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Tagged with: Bloomsbury, Pubs and Cafes, water

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Number 100 to… Shadwell. The next stop is… Pocock Street – oh, look, I really can’t be doing with all this. If you didn’t know what route I was or where I was going, why would you have got on? I mean, I’m contractually obliged to spout all this guff, but frankly it just insults us both. [read more...]

On Gresham Street

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Urban Intervention No. 37

Dress up as a tube-train driver and then, when the train is travelling between stations, walk briskly back through all the carriages muttering “we’re going the wrong way… I told them it was the wrong way…”

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