please empty your brain below
I couldn't agree more about Live Earth. It seemed to americanised for me the lineup, whereas Live 8 seemed more what the UK wanted.

Plus I was saving energy.

Rhys | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 9:14 a.m. | #

I certainly knew you could walk over Tower Bridge top walkways. I remember them being reopened. I think they fitted a roof on them to stop people jumping off. Pity I missed the 25p coupon in Time Out.
Wonder if I saw you DG as I was in Hyde Park Saturday for Le Tour.

John | 09.07.07 - 9:38 a.m. | #

Re last week's blog visitors: maybe a whole week of walks in the same part of London turned out to be less interesting for us than for you?

hackette | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 9:44 a.m. | #

I would recommend that you DO NOT buy a Z470xi mobile phone - all sorts of bad things happen when you do.

embo | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 10:05 a.m. | #

I find your blog fascinating, and cannot understand why the number of visitors has reduced. How you find the time to carry out all your interesting visits, write them up, post the photos, keep a job, and use a mobile phone is beyond me. I couldn't do it, and I am retired.

Fred Barker | 09.07.07 - 10:23 a.m. | #

I've been over the Tower Bridge walkways three times now - the views never get boring. I wish I'd know about the cheap tickets however.

DTL | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 10:53 a.m. | #

One of my favourite memories from my time living is London is walking around the South Bank from London Bridge to Waterloo (where I lived) in the small hours. Millennium Bridge is quite special as there's no-one there at all. The City is dead and Tate Modern is closed so there's no reason for people to be there. Quietest spot in Central London I reckon.

Pete Ashton | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 11:04 a.m. | #

Last week's stuff was fascinating. I think the people normally reading at work were using their break to catch up on Wimbledon instead or reading about bomb plots.

Sony Ericsson T650i looks good. Not out yet, but coming very soon - http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg....ne=pp&
pid=10891

My Spam volume has also increased dramatically in the past 2 weeks. It's also becoming more obviously spam with misspellings and bizarre senders names.

Emmesse | 09.07.07 - 1:57 p.m. | #

I was most impressed by you starting up a conversation with a stranger on the tube. I always felt really counter cultural whenever I did that! I am also going to link to you.

Ms Pretend | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 3:22 p.m. | #

Now WHO'd a thunked ten years ago that rock stars would be singing about low energy lightbulbs and energy saving appliances ten years hence?

I've noticed, though... that NOWHERE in either the Live Earth concerts or anywhere else in any popular media have I ever seen the suggestion that people actually reduce the speed limit to 55 mph.

This leads me to conclude that no one is really serious about any of it.

Only Richard Nixon had the gumption to mandate the speed limit reduction to save energy... back during the original 'energy crisis'.

Anonymous | 09.07.07 - 3:42 p.m. | #

Yes:

Get a Sony Ericsson Z470xi. They work on emergency frequencies including underground on the tube...


geofftech | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 4:05 p.m. | #

Oh, dammit. Must read other peoples comments first AND THEN put my smart reply in. Grr.

geofftech | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 4:07 p.m. | #

Somebody caught someone using those freebie periscopes; and in a most ingenious double configuration: Click here!

Jag | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 7:54 p.m. | #

Oops - posted my comment above in the wrong posting. Please delete this and the last comment! Apols.

Jag | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 7:55 p.m. | #

Me? I just moped about a bit last weekend

Simon | 09.07.07 - 7:56 p.m. | #

If you think walking over London Bridge at 3:30am is nice, you should try walking over Vauxhall Bridge, then up Millbank to Parliament. That's a gorgeous walk at night, and there's no traffic at all. London when it's empty in the dead of night is a very special place.

Nick | Homepage | 09.07.07 - 9:32 p.m. | #

Try the Nokia E61i, the Sony K800/810i or perhaps the HTC 630 (Cavalier) if it will ever release.

Unless you're holding out for an iPhone.

Rick Carlton | 10.07.07 - 1:42 a.m. | #

You have a life? Where did you buy it?
Have you got a link?

poons | Homepage | 10.07.07 - 1:49 a.m. | #

My phone has a torch and a FM radio built in, which come in handy. It's a fairly inexpendsive Nokia of some sort. The buttons are shit, but if you don't make many calls, it doesn't matter. It also takes postage stamp sized photos.

Okay, so it's not cool. But then, neither am I.

flashgordonnz | 10.07.07 - 2:52 a.m. | #

The olympic gates on Marshgate Lane were certainly not closed today. Some bloke was welding more metal on to them, but there was still a load of the usual traffic on that road going through all day. I can't see them closing any time soon except maybe at night.

kenny | 10.07.07 - 2:53 a.m. | #

I don't find your blog fascinating. Just a load of self-obsessed tripe.

nobby | 10.07.07 - 1:53 p.m. | #

Pearls before swine...

Great Aunt Annie | 10.07.07 - 10:24 p.m. | #

Sorry, DG. I confess I've been reading on Bloglines and not clicking on to your site. But surely you aren't bothered about visitor numbers?

z | Homepage | 11.07.07 - 5:38 p.m. | #

Well I loved last week's posts. Very fascinating indeed.

Walking through the city in the middle of the night has always been eerie and magical. I used to cross London Bridge a lot early in the morning and always made sure I stopped at exactly halfway and stared at Tower Bridge.

LiveEarth was pants - and the New Jersey version was much worse than the Wembley one. Explain to me why multi-millionaires with big cars, houses and drug habits were promoting saving the planet?

ChicagoAddick | Homepage | 11.07.07 - 8:23 p.m. | #

Last week's mid-week holiday in the states may have led U.S. readers who usually check in from work to miss, due to taking day(s) off.

Old Grouch | Homepage | 12.07.07 - 3:10 a.m. | #

Try your nearest market with a permanent stall selling second-hand phones. Permanent stall = police oversight and so you are unlikely to be buying stolen goods, just unwanted ones. The prices are amazing.

If all else is equal, get a Nokia. They seem to be the most numerous, so if you get somewhere and and you have left your charger behind, they are easiest to borrow one for.

JH | 16.07.07 - 11:55 p.m. | #

I like my Nokia N95.

ian | Homepage | 18.07.07 - 10:38 a.m. | #











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