I'm going to change the world
Welcome.
Some enforced days off. The cab is in for its yearly overhaul and relicencing. Time for some culture. There is a long queue outside the National Gallery, but round the corner is the recently refurbished National Portrait Gallery. Some are familiar, some are very skillful, and some are inimitably of their time. I like Meredith Frampton, but I feel like a tourist, and I think I prefer drinking beer up the road in Wetherspoons for £3.49 a pint during the day. It's October, right?
What’s with the British fetish for metals and silly uniforms.
General Grant mostly dressed like a disheveled private, and he was instrumental in the North winning the war between the States.
if someone judges you by your hair or dress f==k[em
Is it the Catholics who say that feeling sorry for others is a sin? A Scottish lady left £60 in cash in the cab yesterday, and I put it in an envelope, addressed "By Hand. FAO The Scottish Lady..." and posted it today in her concierge-less, Mayfair apartment block, and maybe it was to create art, but maybe it taught me a lesson. A lady with a highly disabled boy going to North Finchley last night, a lady with learning difficulties going to Old Street this afternoon, both from King's Cross. Why not do such jobs for free and create more art? In any case, I'm going up north again for a few days' holiday before the mayhem of xxxxmas, paid for with my money.
I'm saying that Stonewall Jackson was trash himself. Him, Lee, and all the rest of them Rebs.
Somebody left an umbrella in the cab a couple of months ago. Well-made, a good size, and a good shade of navy blue. Nothing fancy, just a nice, old-fashioned, unostentatious umbrella. Exactly the kind I would choose were I ever to buy one. I would liked to have trekked over to West Ham bus garage to hand it in, but the Law of Diminishing Returns prevented me from doing so. I don't think I have ever owned one before, and today was the first time I have used it. I can go for my morning walk round Battersea Park in the rain without getting wet? What a fantastic invention. One thing you notice is how many people own and use them. Except your hand holding it gets cold. Now all I need is someone to leave some good gloves.
