Covent-Garden Blog

Covent Garden

Hi everyone - here’s a blog of articles related to matters of interest specific to the locales on the Main Map.  Before going places – let’s get topical.

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Einstein dies and goes to heaven only to be informed that his room is not yet ready. “Grettings Al – I’m Pete. Hope you don’t mind waiting in a dormitory. Sorry – best we can do  what with the financial war going on below.  Financial wars are the very devil. You shall share the room with others.” He is told.

Einstein says that this is no problem at all and that there is no need to make such a great fuss. So Pete, muttering something about “the sins of the father shall be visited….. ” leads him to the dorm. They enter and Albert is introduced to the others.

“See, Here is your first roommate. He has an IQ of 180!” “Why that’s wonderful!” Says Albert. “We can discuss mathematics!”

“And here is your second roommate. His IQ is 150!” “Why that’s wonderful!” Says Albert. “We can discuss physics!”

“And here is your third roommate. His IQ is 100!” “That Wonderful! We can discuss the latest plays at the theatre!“

Just then another man moves out to capture Albert’s hand and shake it. “I’m your roommate too – I’m sorry, but my IQ’s under 70.”

Albert smiles back at him and says, “So, where do you think interest rates are headed?”

Back to people……What’s even more important is who is in the buildings? People are and each and every one of us is going for making a living in the jungle as it stands. No time to waste moaning about it. As long as banks keep their atm’s working we can jive with the monopoly paper money – sorta.

As with the whole site, this blog is about the people the map has been created to support as well as the visitors – the natives of the map.  This is their shop window. The POST on guitars (see list of posts on the right) is one shop worth going into.

This is a tiny snap of the Main Map on the site – the map is growing so much that the blog is divided into areas around the Covent Garden locale.  This is the normally accepted area designated to Covent Garden.

This scale is what we call a thumbnail (can’t read the street names) so it’s linked to larger scale images on the covent-garden site. This one you can print in 2 versions – (Classic and modern) This one is for exploring online. (click on the framed map).

STOP PRESS I am inserting an ad for US (don’t add an A to that please) . I know the shopping pages are quaint – and we are going to try to put more zip in there.  Someone actually called me yesterday and asked were there any maps available still?! Oh dear.  Of course there are – and postcards and a great print of Theatreland – check it out.  if you want to call there’s a number 0207 993 6415. Paypal is quick and easy so we use that. OK Ad over – we are all making a living right?  Hope we’ve raised the ‘interest’ rate (see joke).

This map has theatre locations (edition 1) and is a stand-in until we launch the new ‘theatre/culinary’ combo in the new clearer colours.

Apart from the large scale Ordnance Survey maps of mountains – so beautiful that you can put them up on walls – our Silvermaze Modern edition 2 is the prettiest map around – only on the Web it hasn’t been printed yet.  However we have a a small number of older maps left.  This will be their last Christmas. Great pressies actually –  printed specially for walls and if you want to get some this is the page to investigate.  We sell them online. (see STOP PRESS ad)

Some early ones of various places exist as well. We still have some left. We will be putting them up – prolly equally quaintly