23 September 2008
The White Knight of WC1
One of the best things about the "Alice" characters is the way they are ludicrous and unlikely, yet you do meet them out and about. Yesterday in central London I saw a man on a bicycle hung all over with extraordinary things. I plucked up courage to ask him what the washing-bowls fixed over the handle-bars were for. He informed me that they were to keep the wind off his hands when he was cycling, so they would stay warm. I should have waited to see if he burst into rhyme.
There is a very friendly chubby man at a bookstore near my block that is bald headed clean-shinny white face... without a hint of hair!... yah he looks like...well... you know who! :-)