It’s 2008 and still bombs from WWII are being found in the neighbourhood. Train and tube journeys have been disrupted as a result.
The Guardian reports:
A massive unexploded second world war-bomb began to tick as experts worked to defuse it, police said today.
The 1,000kg-device (2,200lb) was found in a river at Sugar House Lane, near [...]

Eye witness testimony of what actually happened during the final moment of Jean Charles de Menezes’ life, the innocent man shot by the police in London in July 2005, is set to be released by the IPCC this week. This follows the only prosecution so far, brought against London’s police authority under health and safety [...]

Nothing to panic about then.

For him, for her, for you. But not for dogs, apparently. City shopping scales new heights, with this delightful establishment spotted on Walthamstow high street, in east London. This is across the road from a place called “Style Overdose”, of all things.

I’ve posted some (blurred as usual) pictures of some vintage computer gaming equipment taken while on a recent visit to London’s Science Museum for the excellent Game On exhibition of the history, technology and culture of computer games.
If you’re into old computer gear (and hey, who isn’t?) it’s worth a visit if you get a [...]

Lucozade Bombers Defeated For Now
So they tried to bomb us again. Even worse - they are us! Have no fear though. Days before we decided to try to bomb us again UK Home Secretary, John “Resin” Reid announced the Government’s latest cunning plan to thwart those who wish to curtail our freedoms. The Government [...]

Do you travel in a confined space every morning and evening? Are you fed up with having people shoving their armpits into your face, or coming up to you and demanding change while playing some god-awful oasis song over and over (and over) again? Or maybe they are just banging into you every single time [...]

This can be “FND” on the wall of a local church in Leytonstone. At the bottom of the poster there is the cryptic suggestion that it is possible to chat with God, via text messaging and at no connection charge. Well, who knew.

For sale in walthamstow! I wouldn’t be seen dead in it.