This Is London...

My London....yesterday.


See that tower on the horizon in the photograph? That is the BT Tower in central London.......formerly known as the London Telecom Tower & The Post Office Tower. It kind of looks like a giant robots penis! Or a very large space rocket.....same thing right;) 620ft high......lucky robot! I took that yesterday (Wednesday....a third of my way round a 31 mile bike ride.....from inside Richmond Park. I see that view every time I cycle in RP and have only just thought of actually photographing it. It look even better at night. I think it is about 8 and a half miles away from where I am standing.....in a straight line. You can even see the tower from the end of my Mums road (The Meadway in Twickenham). They reckon that if you hit the tower straight down into the ground with a gigantic hammer.......Australia would fly up in the air and spin uncontrollably into space! I can't even imagine that! But it must be true?
It has a revolving restaurant right at the very top which was open to the public, but closed in 1980...and in 1971 the mens toilets were bombed by The Angry Brigade........Obviously angry that they ran out of loo roll whilst taking a dump;)
A long time ago, when I was about nine? My Dad wrote a letter to Jim'll Fix it and asked if his son (me) could abseil down the side of the building. My Dad never got a reply and has subsequently never been able to forgive Jim for that!
I'm not surprised that they didn't reply! A man asks if his nine year old Haemophiliac son can abseil down the side of the Post Office Tower! They must have thought my Dad was a nutter! I could of done it though. I could still do it today if I was allowed. Heights don't bother me in the least.....But bombs do! Especially bombs in toilets!!! And even more especially if I am taking a dump on it when it explodes!!!!!!
So, 31 miles later and I was at home and running a nice hot bath. Grabbed a couple of litres of cold mineral water out of the fridge together with an ice cold Cobra lager....0% alcohol.....very tasty! Jumped in the bath.....i-pod plugged into the portable stereo and relax.......after ten minutes I am sweating like a pig, sweat running down my face tickling my skin and dripping from my nose and into the bubbly hot water.....sweat running down my back too...tickling even more than the face. Time to sit back and relax proper. A swig of ice cold lager......sit up, hoping my thighs don't cramp up from the ride.....shuffle forward a few inches until my head is beneath the high upside down U shaped tap and on goes the cold.....right over my head...quickly sit up and let the freezing water run over my boiling hot face, neck & shoulders. Sooooo refreshing! More lager......lay back down.....music playing in my ears.....relax......go over an eskimo roll in my head ready for tomorrows course.....hot.....sweat.....drink.....sit up.....tap......cold......BBBrrrrrrr....freezing.....drink......relax.....music....etc, etc. Every single one of my baths are exactly like this.......except the eskimo roll part. Normally I fall asleep or think of interesting things to do when I am out of the bath or what to have for dinner or think to myself....'Aren't hot baths supposed to help excruciatingly painful joints feel better?.'
Wish Lee & I luck in our eskimo roll course tomorrow (tonight now) at Ealing swimming pool. Very exciting stuff...but a little apprehensive as to wether I will be able to actually do one! They look so easy watching it being done on YouTube.......But I know it isn't going to be! At least we can take our own kayaks along. If you don't see another post by the weekend........I Love you all..........Peace:)



Jason







(C) JPT 2007.........834.06 miles.