please empty your brain below
Enjoyable, thanks DG. Just wondering which gov.uk guidelines give more details about “...picking up five strangers for casual sex”.

Toni | 17.05.21 - 7:23 a.m. | #

I think you're fine as long as you hug them cautiously.

martin | 17.05.21 - 7:35 a.m. | #

Do those last two pics mean DG has finally returned to public transport? Nature is healing.

Scott | Homepage | 17.05.21 - 7:43 a.m. | #

Maybe your tube train and station was as quiet as that early on a Sunday morning but I can assure you at other times there is little seating left for social distancing. Similarly on the only bus I have been on recently, almost normal.

davews | 17.05.21 - 8:41 a.m. | #

Like the new casual rule of six, the slogan does have frisky connotations, does it not?
"My name is not London, but can you do me, too?"

commonliner | 17.05.21 - 8:45 a.m. | #

I am glad to hear that London is finally opening up. Now it just needs the weather to play ball, and we will soon be back to complaining about the crowds everywhere.

Michael | 17.05.21 - 8:52 a.m. | #

The new bus rules - up to 60 sitting on a double decker - will probably put a fair few off. Fancy sitting next to someone who can't be bothered to wear a mask / wear one properly?

ap | 17.05.21 - 9:11 a.m. | #

Brilliant- love the reference to casual sex. I think the last form of public transport I’ll go back to is the bus. Social distancing is going to be problematic. I’m going to venture into town next week using main line trains and then walking.

Dave B | 17.05.21 - 9:39 a.m. | #

The TFL Thames Clippers/Uber Boats are still running a more or less full service. We took the nice jaunt from Battersea to Canary Wharf at the weekend for a very respectable £7 and -apart from the crew- had the boat to ourselves. Extreme social distancing..

Rick | 17.05.21 - 9:42 a.m. | #

The bit about museums was a little painful - "my" museum has just managed to scrape through the last year with the aid of grants, donations, support funds etc. We hope now we can open we can survive the next year, but as you say it's touch and go. There's less than a handful of paid staff, all the rest of us are volunteers.

Finally this week we open again on Wednesdays and Thursdays as usual, and Sunday 30th May is the first Steamup this year.
thebrickworksmuseum.org/events
Please do come and visit, you'll be surprised how much there is to see on our large site.

Joho | Homepage | 17.05.21 - 10:06 a.m. | #

I'm very tempted to go into town just to see it empty while I can but if London's economy is relying on people like me to get it going again, it's in dire trouble!! I can honestly say that the only clothes I've bought in the last 12 months are 2 pairs of jeans and some underwear - and they were for my kids, not me! Though |I am in need of some socks so ....

Buses are already becoming a nightmare. Despite recorded messages about correctly wearing a face covering there are still those who board with it cradling their chin, or pull it down as soon as they are out of view of the driver! And don't get me started on the schoolkids of whom at least 50% don't bother even taking theirs out of their pocket! Not good given the infectability of the Indian variant.

Cornish Cockney | 17.05.21 - 10:20 a.m. | #

I slightly confused by the tone of this. Are you supporting the return of people to central London to visit shops, museums, etc or are you saying we should all stay at home and if they shut down, well so be it?

dg writes: No.

Mikey C | 17.05.21 - 10:26 a.m. | #

Wasn't planning to visit indoor eating on the First Day, but as the car is in need of mechanical attention from Toyota we've had to venture down from the hills into Northallerton ... who have a branch of Betty's of Harrogate ... so right now standing in the queue for an All Day Breakfast and a Fat Rascal.

Well, it'd be rude not to, wouldn't it!

Putters | 17.05.21 - 10:51 a.m. | #

Would a British tourist be desperate to 'do London'? I think that without the return of international travel, London will have another lean year, although apparently people are leaving New York too, so that might be the trend.

Still Anon | 17.05.21 - 11:45 a.m. | #

Indeed, and if the casual sex is outside, you could have a full blown orgy with up to 29 other people (weather permitting) :-)

It would be nice to get out and about for a bit. During the summer last year when there were no restrictions, I still kept clear of going anywhere, especially where it would involve potentially crowded public transport.

Now, having been double-jabbed and with more people less likely to pass anything on, I think it's time to visit some places and get back to a bit of normality.

rogmi | 17.05.21 - 11:54 a.m. | #

You want to be 'trapped' in Western Australia...Seriously.
This country seems to think if it pushes away everybody it will come through, unblemished. People can't come in, people can't leave. I'm homesick.

Milo | 17.05.21 - 2:45 p.m. | #

Just got back from visiting two exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, which involved going on the tube twice, and having lunch out, sitting down, indoors, at a table, without a coat on, with a knife and fork, without a mask, with other people nearby. All very strange. Take some time to get used to.

ActonMan | 17.05.21 - 4:48 p.m. | #

We're currently in the Dales for a few days and agree with Putters that it would be rude to not venture into Northallerton for a Betty's Fat Rascal. Or maybe into York on the way back home south.

Regards

zin92 | 17.05.21 - 5:24 p.m. | #

That banner picture conjured up "Debbie Does London" in my mind!

Andrew Jarman | 17.05.21 - 9:27 p.m. | #

Pre COVID I disliked heading into central london because it had been taken over by tourists and shops, theatres and restaurants that targeted them. While we’ve got our city back for ourselves we should make the most of it.

Beanie | 17.05.21 - 11:11 p.m. | #

Did you take the Arthur Beale photo on Wednesday? if so I think i walked in front of you with my wife and spoiled your first attempt.

dg writes: photos on Flickr are dated.

Alistair James Twiname | 18.05.21 - 5:14 p.m. | #











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