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April 19th, 2008

Getting lost in the Barbican / The Italian sausage stall

italian sausage stall

On Fridays I usually go into the City of London to the Church Times offices. I do some work on the blog and discuss things to do with my Church Times work.

Sometimes I walk there from Fenchurch street station. Yesterday I got a bit lost in the Barbican. I was taking a short cut but went astray. It is my suspicion that a good 20-30% of the people in the Barbican at any one time are people taking shortcuts who have gone a bit astray.

At lunchtime a few of us went to the food market at Whitecross street. I had one of the tasty Italian sausages in a wrap. The man on the right does the cooking, whereas the job of the man in the left is to stir the onions, ask the customers for their orders, assemble the sausage wraps, dispense the sauces and deal with the money. I’d say the man on the right has an easier job, but it ultimately carries greater responsibility.

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5 Responses to “Getting lost in the Barbican / The Italian sausage stall”


  1. Cal says:

    I’m with you on the Barbican thing. I once got lost there having tried to take a shortcut through it and have been very very wary of it every since.

    April 19th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
  2. Phelim McIntyre says:

    The Barbican? Where’s the Barbican? Oh, that black hole near St Pauls where you can loose years of your life trying to get out of the Labyrinth back to civilisation. I wanted to attend a LSO concert there once. I never got to the concert but when I got out of the Barbican I had lost a month.

    April 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
  3. Rebecca says:

    I agree too – I work in the Barbican and I still get lost regularly!!!

    April 20th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
  4. rosamundi says:

    I got lost in the Barbican just today.

    Walked for 20 minutes and popped out exactly where I started, but on the other side of the road.

    Horrid place.

    April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
  5. Nefertiki says:

    Visiting your blog today turned into a very complex experience, intellectually speaking, because of:

    1. the sexy pics ad. Good people of google, what were you thinking?

    2. your provocative analysis of the 2 men in the sausage stall. I agree with your job rating of the man on the right. Some of us could never do the job of the man on the left as well as he because we are not good at multi-tasking.

    3. the fellow who documented a lost month in the Barbican — reminds me of the missing time syndrome of ufology. A sure sign strange things occur there

    April 27th, 2008 at 6:20 pm