Robot Claw

JBF’s off on another all-day train safari today, this time to Cardiff. KLS and I had shopping to take care of, since we’d managed to gather precisely almost zero souvenirs. With checklist in hand, we traipsed out into London.

By the way I have sent a total of 34 postcards this trip! I think/hope most of you reading this got one (if I have your address) and some of you many more than one. Hopefully they gave you a smile 🙂

^ Ghastly stuff! The overall quality of the trash in 99% of the souvenir stores is truly appalling, and for some reason we’ve really struggled finding stuff this trip (by comparison, it’s usually tough not to find appropriate items for people in Tokyo). I can assure you all though, that nothing in the above image was purchased 😉

Anyway we traipsed and traipsed, and at one point found ourselves in Forbidden Planet, a really friggin’ big sci-fi and fantasy store. Here’s a photo…

… and everything in it is Doctor Who (except for me, of course)! It was Doctor Who merchandise heaven! I bought a CD drama (“Plague Of The Daleks”, chosen based on the companion and not the Doctor) and a few other items, and spent a lot of time wishing a similar selection was available in some store closer to home.

< Bobby

We stumbled across a vast multi-story arcade named Funland near Picadilly Circus. It had a mind-boggling selection of games and was actually a very good arcade, but for some reason I gravitated toward and played the hopping game “Hopping Road”

Yes it’s a racing game based around hopping using a pogo stick controller. I hopped and hopped like a madman and won the race easily but at the cost of almost-death. It was torturous, boring and embarassing since people were watching. Why I played it I have no idea!

We just had dinner (shown above), and are both bone-tired so it’s time to crash and eat junk (cheese & onion chips, mars bars and lemonade), watch TV and play DS.

But I’ll leave with a certain photo, deliberately without description or explanation. Go on AW, comment on this one!

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