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Published: August 6th 2007
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Monday 23rd April Today Emma and I made it into the Guinness Book of Records!! With a lot of hard work and preparation we finally achieved our goal for being part of the worlds largest coconut orchestra!! Scoff you might, but you can't just clip when you should have clopped, it takes a steady hand and impeccable timing. Anyways, the lads from Monty Python have a musical running over here called Spamalot, and they'd organized the take over of Trafalgar Square and the handing out of the thousands of coconut shells. Luckily Emma had got there before me and had my nuts, as they ran out before I could get some. We just had to grab half a nut each and banged them together in a trotting, galloping and cantering rhythm, in time with the rest of the nutty crowd led by the guys up on stage.
Once we were all happy with our technique, the official attempt was started and we all clipped and clopped to the tune of "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"..clipclop........clipclop........clipclop..clipclop..clipclop. At the end, the official from Guinness who oversees record attempts announced we had indeed been successful and we'd whipped the
Clip Clop
Practicing the technique Yanks, who only managed about 2,000. We had 5,500! Woohoo!! And that figure would have been higher if we'd had more nuts!
Tuesday 24th April Went down to Portobello Rd again after work to check out an photo exhibition that one of the photos Cam and I had taken on our Shoot Portobello day (the one out front of Jimi Hendrix' apartment) had made it into. So now I can say I've had my photo exhibited in London. Jolly good show.
Thursday 26th April Went to Soho after work to buy Em a teapot that she fancied from a Carnaby St teashop, but they'd just closed. Dammit! At least I got to see a fashion shop on Oxford St go up in flames. Roads were blocked, cops and firemen were everywhere, a bit of action for the day. Good stuff!
Friday 27th April Couple of pints down at "The Banker" by the Thames with Cam and a few workmates to wash down a busy week.
Saturday 28th April At the end of the Victoria line lies Walthamstow and that is where we journeyed today to buy a printer
from a Gumtree ad. We'd have to go through the Walthamstow Markets first though as it was famous as being the longest market in the UK at around 1.5 miles. It was a pretty grotty area, a bit like Brixton, but the clothes were hell cheap and Em went frantic devouring bargains left, right and center whilst I score a few £5 work shirts. Lucky we got something out of the day as when I arrived at the guys house to buy the printer I tested it and found it didn't work. Duncoff!!
Sunday 29th April GUMBALL!!
Continuing the "all that way for nothing" theme I rode my bike about half an hour to Pall Mall to witness the start of the infamous Gumball Rally, a high speed car race across Europe for millionaires and celebrities. One small thing I neglected to take with me would start a chain of events leading to my eventual downfall. Arriving at the event, I discovered I hadn't packed my keys, one of which was for my bike lock. After attempting to check out all the delicious cars whilst wheeling a bike around through the crowds, I gave up in disgust
Formula 1 car
This thing sounded like an angry wasp! and headed back home to pick up my keys and return.
At least the bike was flying now, faster than a greased rattlesnake sliding down a slippery hill with a 100 mile wind at its back, as I'd just yesterday fitted new tyres, tubes and toeclips setting me back £60. I'd be home in no time....to discover no one was there to let me in!! Also no one was answering their mobiles. Arrgghh!! Never mind I thought, I'd head down to Clapham High Street and buy a padlock to use with my thick bike cable. Snapped up the lock at a dodgy convenience shop and locked it up just outside a cafe whilst I ran in for a takeaway cappuccino to fuel me back to the Gumball. Came out 3 minutes later and.....you guessed it.....bike gone, not even a trace of broken bits or smashed lock (my blog site doesn't have a crying/homicidal emoticon which I would like you to imagine here).
After uncurling from the fetal position I decided to deal with it later and headed back in via the tube to salvage what I could of the day. I'm glad I did because it was bloody
4 Of The Best
Bugatti Veyron, Porsche Carrera GT, Ferrari Enzo and Ford GT...a few millions worth. fantastic! Ferrari's of all flavours, Lamborghini's (even a chrome Diablo), Ford GT's, Bugatti Veyrons, Pagini Zonda's, MacLaren SLRs, Aston Martin DB9's, pimped out Rolls Royce 4x4's, even a fully fledged Formula 1 race car (the noise this thing made was ear blowing) were lined up down the street awaiting the start. I think I took about a million photos (some of which I shall upload to a photobucket site) and a good deal of video footage. It's a good deal as this may well be the last Gumball ever run thanks to a double fatality that would happen involving the white/blue/red 911 Porsche and an elderly couple. The actual race was marred with plenty of crashes, wild driving and poor organising so I don't like it's chances next year. Oh well, I got to see it. Who cares!
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