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Monthly Archives April 2007

Street food

I don’t quite live in Oxford now, but in the next bit along, which is called Cowley. It’s a good place: jovial, colourful, occasionally criminal, but in a fun kinda way. There are lots of shops with strong smells. I saw a fish product wrapped in plastic that was labelled only:
“FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. Product […]

Posted 26 April 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

The International BikeLock Index

I have today invented a new way of measuring “quality of life” in various cities of the world: it’s called the International BikeLock Index (IBLI).
Basically, the measurement reflects how heavy and how numerous are the locking mechanisms used to secure bicycles left in public. A high BikeLock variable can then be used as an indicator […]

Posted 18 April 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (1) °

Babylon, NW1

I´ve come down to London for the weekend, and I´m reading St Augustine´s confessions. I recently picked up this completely beautiful Penguin edition for three quid:

Fantastic stuff: give me chastity and continence… but not yet. I am quite convinced that the Confessions have been read so keenly by Catholics throughout the ages who, in their […]

Posted 09 April 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °