From: Pd on
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> Do we need to do a ceremonial traversal of the shiny new Oxford Circus
> crossing?

I don't get it. Is this really the first "cross in any direction"
crossing in Britain? How quaint!

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Pd
From: Chris Ridd on
On 2009-11-12 19:44:29 +0000, Pd said:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Do we need to do a ceremonial traversal of the shiny new Oxford Circus
>> crossing?
>
> I don't get it. Is this really the first "cross in any direction"
> crossing in Britain? How quaint!

I don't know, but it is the first one in London which is all that seems
to matter according to the media :-(
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Chris

From: zoara on
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
> On 2009-11-11 20:31:24 +0000, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> said:
>
> > Afraid there's a possibility I might be unable to make it either. I
> > know
> > I've ducked out at the last minute before, so feel I out to
> > explain...
> > We've just started the IVF injections again and didn't think ahead -
> > if
> > Han isn't comfortable self-injecting after tomorrow's attempt, I may
> > have to stay in on Friday to do it for her. She doesn't really trust
> > anyone else to do it for her.
>
> I'd imagine the first time will always be difficult, so I think I
> understand.

Well, the first time went totally fine, and Han's happy doing it by
herself tomorrow, so I'm going to be there after all. Will probably be
one of the early ones...

-zoara-


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From: Peter Ceresole on
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:

> I don't get it. Is this really the first "cross in any direction"
> crossing in Britain? How quaint!

The first *official* one, marked out on the road. We had a cross roads
in Sheen that I used to cross diagonally for several years. But not many
of us did it as a matter of course.
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Peter
From: zoara on
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Well, the first time went totally fine, and Han's happy doing it by
> > herself tomorrow, so I'm going to be there after all. Will probably
> > be
> > one of the early ones...
>
> Excellent!

Talking of which, is there a 'list' of who will be there early
(four-ish, isn't it?) rather than meeting up later? I'd like to know who
to look out for - and I'm useless at spotting people in a crowd.

-zoara-


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