Bicycle Tag of bike

^csb.

There is more about the building here

and more about the sculpture here

Wikipedia says that it is cast aluminium - which I completely missed whilst I was there. The other website humorously describes the Surface Condition as being "bird guano"

Anyway - the inscription on the side reads:
"AT FIRST THE INFANT- MEWING AND PUKING IN THE NURSES ARMS/ AND THEN THE WHINING SCHOOL-BOY WITH HIS SATCHEL AND SHINING MORNING PACE CREEPING LIKE SNAIL UNWILLINGLY TO SCHOOL/ AND THEN THE LOVER SIGHING LIKE FURNACE WITH A WOEFUL BALLAD MADE TO HIS MISTRESS' EYEBROW/ THEN A SOLDIER FULL OF STRANGE OATHS AND BEARDED LIKE THE PARD JEALOUS IN HONOUR SUDDEN AND QUICK IN QUARREL SEEKING THE BUBBLE REPUTATION EVEN IN THE CANNON'S MOUTH/ AND THEN THE JUSTICE IN FAIR ROUND BELL/ WITH GOOD CAPON LIN'D WITH EYE SEVERE AND BEARD OF FORMAL CUT FULL OF WISE SAUS (sic) AND MODERN INSTANCE: AND HE PLAYS HIS PART/ THE SIXTH AGE SHIFT INTO THE LEAN AND STUPPER'D PANTALOON WITH SPECTACLE ON NOSE AND POUCH ON SIDE HIS YOUTHFUL HOSE WELL SAV'D A WORLD TOO WIDE FOR HIS SHRUNK SHANK AND HIS BIG MANLY VOICE TURNING AGAIN TOWARDS CHILDISH TREBLE PIPES AND WHISTLE IN HIS SOUND/ LAST SCENE OF ALL THAT ENDS THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY IS SECOND CHILDNESS AND MERE OBLIVION SANS TEETH SANS EYES SANS TASTE SANS EVERYTHING"

(My shank was definitely somewhat shrunk in the cold & wet)

Shakespeare innit. As you like it.

AAAH Beaten.
Worked out the next one, but I'm back inside again now.

It's been too long since the last table tennis tag. Somebody get on it, please.

It's been too long since the last church tag. Somebody get on it, please.

Do Synagogues and mosques count as churches? Same god n'all.

Quickly done!
IKB is a huge hero of mine.
Doing this tag reminded me of the 1975 animated (Oscar winning) film called "Great" that Bob "Henry's Cat" Godfrey did about Brunel. Sadly it's no longer on Youtube but if you see it anywhere - watch it. It's sublime.

I never realised he died so young...

...while achieving so much

Do golf courses and polo courts count as ping-pong tables? Same ball n'all.
No, David, really, no.

good tag.

it's opposite the architects who designed a flat we converted. #csb

Much too close to my work to leave:

Old: Frank's Sandwich Bar

Famously on the cover of Pulp's Common People.

New: Power to the people

Hurry^ you may get tagzumped

It had never occured to me that the cafe on the cover was in London until I watched a documentary on YouTube. Been waiting for about a month to put that one up.

Moving fast today.. What's the daily record?

It's a Scottish newspaper, but what's that got to do with anything?

Boo(m tish)!

I never realised he died so young...

Yes - he never saw the Great Eastern sail properly nor the house he was having built in Devon for his retirement.

I do think that statue needs a top hat though.

WRT the new tag... you will all have spotted that those fossils predate the Phanerozoic eon.

Yes - he never saw the Great Eastern sail properly nor the house he was having built in Devon for his retirement.

I do think that statue needs a top hat though.

Random IKB fact alert!
Great Eastern was six, yes, that's six, times bigger than anything else man-made and floating at that time

^ by volume, yes. Still mighty impressive: twice as long as anything else built at the same time and not beaten for almost half a century - a decade after The Great Eastern had been broken up...

Where is Frank's Samdwich Bar, please?

Addison Bridge Place, opposite Olympia. And the reflecto-ed Hand and Flower pub.

Ta.

Addison Bridge Place, opposite Olympia. And the reflecto-ed Hand and Flower pub.

Are you sure...

Are you sure...

Yes.

I recognise the current one, but have no idea. And I have a place I REALLY want to tag.

WRT the new tag... you will all have spotted that those fossils predate the Phanerozoic eon.

This is actually not true, historically speaking. But it is true geographically.

From one set of fakenger fossils to a few larger relics...

Old Cambria Road bridge:

And new: