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[14:07] Time Flies Like A Really Fast Thing
I was intending to catch up with a few posts this weekend (not to mention last weekend when I got caught up trying to work out how to redo my site using CSS instead of tables) but work and having a good time got in the way. I've been writing notes for myself over the last couple of weeks and I'm going to try and get it all up here over the coming week.
This weekend has been really good! I had to be at work early on Saturday morning for the change window and it was a bit of a shock as it was -1 when I rode in and, since they turn the air-con off on the weekends, 30 degrees inside! I finished around 13:00 so Shona rode in and we went for Pho at a restaurant in Hackney that Shona found on the interjobie, the Viet Hoa Cafe. The food was good and cheap and fuelled us on our cycling adventures!
We then went for a bit of an explore on the bikes and (after browsing through the local Yamaha dealership to check out the new XT660R) we stumbled upon the Geffrye Museum. It's a museum of English House Interiors from the 1600s through to now and it was actually pretty interesting. It was also somewhat disturbing to see the 1990-2000 interior which looked uncannily like a mix of a friends house and a our house back home. I found it really weird looking at "now" in a museum and the Fat Boy Slim playing the background really helped to make it completely freaky!
We cycled home via the Gerkhin and after that Shona noticed a building that looked a LOT like an oil refinery that I went to on a school excursion many years ago. It turned out to be the Lloyds building and it's really quite incongruous sitting in the midst of all the brick and stone buildings, not to mention all the glass of the Gerkhin. It looks a lot like Gigers work for the colony on LV-426 in Aliens. The most interesting part (for me anyway) was the fact that everything was inside out. The outside of the building is shrouded with plumbing and conduit, the staircases are all external to the building and all of the lifts are on the outside - big banks of doors running up the side (see here) look most bizzare.
Sunday I spent at work, working for the most part. I've signed myself up for a bit of extra-curricular information provision, so I spent four hours trying to finish that off as it's due on the 14th - more info on that soon.
Posted: 05/03/2006 19:58