No diesel

I know that I’m just a humble cabbie, but didn’t it occur to anyone with the dash to go green, there might just might be a problem in putting all our eggs in one basket? Now we are having to go cap-in-hand for oil when if it wasn’t tied down England would float away, we have so much of the stuff beneath us. Surely we should be matching reducing our dependency on fossil fuels in step with wind, sun and water.

Johnson’s London Dictionary: Crossrail

CROSSRAIL (n.) Mythical stagecoach said to magically transport the populace across the Metropolis

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London in Quotations: Thomas Brown

London is a world by itself. We daily discover in it more new countries, and surprising singularities, than in all the universe besides.

Thomas Brown (1663-1704), Amusements Serious and Comical, Calculated for the Meridian of Londont

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