She Loves London

Category: At Street Level

Observations, overheard conversations and other stuff from the streets of London.

  • Err, Pony on the Strand. PONY ON THE STRAND.

    There’s a problem with taking a few days holiday from work.

    It’s not the morning fatigue after a couple of lie-ins, nor is it the bulging inbox that greets you on your return.

    It’s getting into work and discovering that on the day you weren’t there, a pony wearing a green raincoat went down the pavement on the Strand.

    There's a pony. On the Strand.

    You can just imagine the talk on the Northern Line that morning.

    “What’s that you got there?”

    “What? Oh! This? I’m just taking my pony for a walk. On the Strand. He was getting a little bored in his stable of dreams.”

    The image and heads up both come courtesy of @HoareTom.

    If you’ve seen anything better than that on a pavement in London, please feel free to make me jealous below.

  • Overheard: Covent Garden in “Not A Garden” Shock

    Overheard: Covent Garden in “Not A Garden” Shock

    It has come to my attention that there appears to be some confusion on the streets of London.

    While strolling through Embankment Gardens on his lunchbreak, @HoareTom caught a worrying snippet of conversation between two American tourists:

    American 1: “This park is so cute. What’s it called?”

    American 2: “Oh, this is Covent Garden”

    Clearly, there seems to be a dangerous amount of false knowledge circulating in certain parts of the West End.

    As anyone who has ever directed a disappointed dancing elephant away from Piccadilly Circus will know, the problems such misinformation can bring are many, far reaching and a hazard for those in open toe shoes (especially in rush hour).

    Therefore, it’s only right that we set this “it’s a garden” / “it’s not a garden” malarkey straight once and for all.

    Garden
    image by Alexrk2
    Not a garden
    image by Diliff

    Spread the word, let’s nip this thing in the bud (no garden pun intended).

    Coming up next week: the distinct lack of glass in Crystal Palace.