Famous People!!

WOAH -----!!

Ok, so I was walking home as usual this evening, just like usual, through the (now dark - clocks changed the weekend before last, ugh!) park, must have gotten to Hyde Park Corner shortly before half five. And as I was crossing the road, I noticed that this lone police guy on a motorbike was trying (with a whistle) to stop the cyclists (at which I laughed contemptuously - it's gonna take more than a whistle to stop the HP cyclists!!) Then I noticed that he was also blocking the traffic (Hyde Park Corner is like this HUGE three-lane roundabout with like a huge arch and statues and stuff in the middle - and this was in the middle of rush hour so no mean feat) and that no-one was moving. And I then twigged what was about to happen, having luckily read this article at lunchtime... through comes the Chinese delegation's limo, flag flying and all, with generous police escort, presumably on the way back from Buckingham Palace. OK so I didn't actually see Hu Jintao, but I was pretty close... I was quite, like, wow.

Other famous people spotted since I started working at Marble Arch are Jeremy "and it's goodnight from me, goodnight" Paxman, who walked past my phone box one lunchtime looking entirely bright and happy with the state of the world, and (this was a good one) Clare Short, who I practically bumped into coming out of the underpass near Speaker's Corner. She went off round the corner and I got about two steps up before it sank in, and had to fight the urge to run back and say "hello! you're Clare Short aren't you?!" of all the pathetic things... anyway I guess it just goes to show that famous people don't just exist on TV.