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Don't expect anything fancy in London on a Christmas day. More or less everything is closed. Underground and bus lines are all cancelled. All underground lines and bus lines are closed. Also few taxis were driven. We didn't and therefore a larger apartment proved to be the best solution for holidays. Since only handful of the places are open and these are hard to find, you set price to the 1st class cooking facilities. After the lazy morning we headed to a walk around over the nearby Tower Bridge and back over the London Bridge. A decent walk and gorgeous site. Many people walking, mostly tourists. By the Queens Walk (south bank of Thames between the Tower Bridge and London Bridge) we found a waterhole which was open. Only couple pubs are open this day, so we went in. So, if you are a tourist in a Xmas day in London wanting decent food and drinks, head here. We noticed other spots open here as well. Hornimans at Hays is a big pub by the river. Two I.P.A.s and a cok...

Table and Chair shelter for horses was a troll. Yesterday I asked my students whether they had seen the fake Facebook postings of "Facebook copyright disclaimer" and "lottery winner giving 1 million $ away for a random liker" . Everyone had seen these and many had seen those distributed by their friends. Many had been trolling. There has been three big trolls out there within just a week. Generating millions of repostings and thousands of blog postings. Most of them believing the fake story behind them. The third one was the posting of horses sheltering under a giant table and chairs claiming that horse owner built them because he was denied the building permission to build a traditional horse shelter by a city council. Sorry to say but the posting was untrue. The photograph is real, these chairs and tables do exist, but they were originally built by a German furniture manufacturer in order to advertise their products. The photo was first published by TIM...