All posts by Gibson Square
Rickshaws
Rickshaws are to be licensed to operate in London. Then someone best makes sure they are booked through a licensed rickshaw operator, otherwise they will be plying for hire in streets that are closed off to taxis. Now I know why the cycle lanes are so big and the speed limit is coming down to 15mph.
Johnson’s London Dictionary: Admiralty Arch
ADMIRALTY ARCH (n.) Edifice similar to purveyor’s logo whose produck is meat inside a bread bun, the building being now repurposed as an expensive hostelry
Dr. Johnson’s London Dictionary for publick consumption in the twenty-first century avail yourself on Twitter @JohnsonsLondon
Secrets of a cabbie
Last week I was contacted by a journalist tasked with writing for inews about people’s occupations, and this week’s contribution was about the London cabbie.
Here I describe how Tony Blair’s head ended up in the back of my cab, how to deal with awkward customers and what I think of cyclists (you might be surprised at that one).
I urge you to check out Nick Duerden’s piece here.
London in Quotations: H. V. Morton
Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.
H. V. Morton (1892-1979), In Search of London
CabbieBlog 