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No it's not just LJ that's excruciatingly slow today. I couldn't get into a web page from home on Eastlink and surfing here at work via Aliant is painful. I called up Eastlink and they gave me a load of bollocks about having a problem with one of their nodes. When i suggested that there could be a virus or some other problem because people i know all over the world are having similar problems over the last few days (since the US election oddly enough) he went quiet. Funny about that isn't it. Anyway, this too shall pass. It's just damn frustrating until it does.

Meme

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.

and mine was the fifth line in a list...
"Authors', 2, Whitehall Court, S.W.1 . . . Authors and Journalists"

That's from Ward Lock and Co's London (Illustrated Guide Books) from about 1941. The list is under a chapter titled City Guilds - Clubs. There's a small insert at the beginning saying "The Publishers regret that owing to War-time difficulties, it is not at present possib le to include the customary complete set of maps and plans in this Guide." for "difficulties" i assume security risks though there is a fold out map of a railway/tube and street map of central London, main streets and routes, as far north as Hampstead, south to Wandsworth, Balham and Dulwich, west to Hammersmith and Willesden and Putney and east to Clapton, Hackney, Stepney, Rotherhite and Peckham. Is Hoxton still an East end area? (between Islington and Bethnal Green). I find the old guidebooks really interesting. Neat to see things like itineraries that they suggest for a tourist on a limited time. If you followed the itinerary they suggest, you'd have to start at 6 a.m and go until 10 p.m.!

( for the discerning wartime tourist )