Our coathanger is 75 today, and to celebrate, it was closed to cars yesterday (Sunday) so we could wander across like ants. They reckon around 500,000 people took the opportunity, but given that it looked like this for much of the day, I suspect it might have been more.The bear was there, though by the time Dr J and I joing the throngs, they'd run out of free yellow hats.
13 comments:
Aww, shame you missed the hat, tis most stylish, I'm grumpy because the night people got hats with little lights on! How cool is that?
A night hat? I could use one of those when wandering abuot the house in the middle of the night. Sometimes I sleep walk. It's quite disconcerting. Did they close the bridge all day AND all night? wowee zowie.
Were there any jumpers?
How about spitters?
No jumpers. :-(
To jump off the bridge, potential suiciders need to climb over too much barbed wire.
You see, someone with a greater lateral thinking ability than me once worked out that a person trying to commit suicide won't risk getting hurt in the attempt. Put enough barbed wire up and they'll go elsewhere. Go figure.
As for spitters... where do you think Sydney is, Asia?
I'm still pissed off about the hat though. And now that I know there was a night hat... bah!
Mr Bear, if you were booked in (& I remember you were) you can go the the ourbridge site, lodge a "no hat" complaint and they will arrange for you to get one, my desk buddy did and they emailed her back saying anyone who missed out on a hat would get one!
Oh, as for jumpers, apparently someone jumped in front of one of the trains on the day, on the northern line - buggered things up for a bit.
thanks mouse.
i've received the same assurance from the premiers office that registered walkers are entitled to a hat.
i have to wait until the middle of april though.
Mid April? Jeeze. I could make a tin foil hat for you in half the time.
I'm pleased you rang the Premier's office to lodge your complaint. Jeeze. The things one has to do to score a free hat.
ps: I was thinking that gatsby meant a jumper as in a sweater. I was thinking "wow! free jumpers, too? count me in!" .. then the penny dropped. I must be studying too hard. Or something.
hehehe, CAW, cos if the mediocre gatsby was asking about items of clothing he'd have said sweater whouldn't he?
ooo. good point my dear mouse. my brain gets confused easily these days. sometimes, when someone is talking American to me, i translate it in my head so that i can reply in Australian. that way, neither of us knows what the other person has said and the confusion continues. i do this to amuse myself but sometimes i get stuck in the translation part of the programme and i can't get out. that is certainly how i feel today. a bit befuddled. perhaps i am getting old. maybe i am studying too hard. my starbucks coffee cup says that my name is Joan. my name is not Joan. i told them it was Jo. which of course, it is not. but starbucks couldn't even get my wrong name right.
i fear i am not making any sense at all. i need a bex, a lie down & a strong cup of tea...
Any cardigans?
How about pullovers?
do starbucks put your name on the cup?bizarre.I would always say a different one.the government might record the names ,hey i made a new conspiracy theory,or am I too late.
hi goth. yeh, they're rabid name writers those starfunkles. so, to create a little anarchy, i don't give them any name at all - just a word.
once, i said "bench". they said .. "wha? your name is BENCH?" i said "YES. B-E-N-C-H". another time i said was "red". then "blue". "green" is a personal fave.
but now i just say "jo" b/c it's easy, it's short, and they can get on with the job of making the freakin coffee faster if they don't waste everyone's time writing names on paper coffee cups.
fancy writing 'pullover' on a coffee cup. hmmm.
Post a Comment