I've switched from Live Journal because I can't be doing with it (not sure why; blame it on blogger caprice). Anyway, here's hoping I'll keep this one going for a bit longer. I think I'll try a 'little and often' policy, rather than some of the immensely long, rambling jobs I've treated my few readers to in the past. ;) It'll be interesting to see how long I can stick to that approach...
Anyway, sod my blog, because here's one that's much better. Yes, the Web Monitor section on the BBC News site has directed me to the incredible London Twirls blog, run by a devotee of said chocolate snack. The Twirl is, apparently, not that easy to come by in our beloved capital, so James Ward has taken it upon himself to track the purple-wrapped blighter in myriad shops and newsagents throughout the city before mapping its availability. This is, without question, one of the finest and most valuable purposes to which Google Maps has ever been put. I feel duty-bound to point out that one of his several helpers passed furious comment upon the sales practices of the British Library at St Pancras, where Twirls are (and I quote his trusty sidekick verbatim) 'NINETY-FIVE F***ING PENCE'. Those of us familiar with the library cafe will be shaking our heads sadly and mentally comparing this figure with the high price of fancy, metropolitan-class sandwiches there. The Boston Spa (West Yorkshire) 'mini' branch of the BL is altogether more budget-friendly, and sells nifty cupcakes for about the same price as the London Twirls. I now expect a deluge of intense social commentary on what this may signify for the infamous 'North/South Divide'.
Mr. Ward is also, as he puts is, 'embroiled' in a dispute with UK gluemakers, Bostik, over the allegedly 'thousands' of uses to which their fabled BluTak can be put. I kind of hope he's going to do a Dave Gorman and become very famous.
http://www.londontwirls.blogspot.com
