Encouraging Augury

Head down to Canada Water tube station today, which is way out East and definitely a bit off the usual artistic beaten track down which I more frequently make my meandering perambulations. But I’m feeling adventurous today so when I ride the escalators back up to ground level and find myself in the muddled middle … Continued

Cholesterolic Clagging

Start the day off at Marylebone station where, since I happen to be feeling a tad esurient, I ponder upon the wide range of fast food feeding options available in the concourse here.  It’s a choice of comestibles that range from savoury to sweet – from baguettes, burgers and bagels to fancily frosted fairy cakes … Continued

Gouty Twinges

Head down to Oxford Circus tube station and as I emerge from the subterranean depths my eyes are met with the full penetrative force of a billion solar sunbeams bashing their way up against my optical nerve endings and sparking off a cascade of neural brain waves that ripple and rollick around the core of … Continued

Prettily Plinthed

It’s head down and hoodie up when I exit Southwark tube station and enter into the drizzly meteorological coagulation of wind and rain that swirls around me as I splash my way along the puddliferous pavements to get to the monstrous megalithic structure that is Tate Modern.  But then, damply entering the great cultural temple, … Continued

Outlandishly Outsized

Head down to Tottenham Court Road tube station and then swing on round to the British Museum where, thankfully, the queue to get through the security tent which, on some previous occasions has been off-puttingly long, is now, currently invitingly short.  Approaching the nothing-to-declare channel I notice a useful little notice advising that among the … Continued