Haven’t updated the blog for a while, and so I thought I’d have a good old whinge… after all, that’s why I created the blog in the first place, isn’t it? Well that, and to post photos of my travels!

Went out for a run last night, the first in a while. I thought I’d go around along the south side of the river, through the Greenwich foot tunnel and back around through Canary Wharf. But I got to the Greenwich foot tunnel, and it was all boarded up with a sign saying that it now closes at 9pm nightly. Rude.

So I thought I’d run downstream (or is it upstream?) to the Woolwich foot tunnel, some 35 minutes further away from my house. “Surely,” I thought, “Greenwich can’t be so contemptible as to close both foot tunnels at the same time”. But when I got there… it was boarded up as well!

There was a sign saying “due to health and safety concerns, this tunnel is closed until further notice”. Yup – nice one – health and safety is a good excuse to do pretty much whatever you want. Maybe someone slipped on a banana peel.

The sign went on to say “please use the nearby free ferry in the meantime”. Surprise surprise… the ferry was also closed.

So, I’d just like to say… London Borough of Greenwich, you’re an embarrassment to London. And as a not entirely unrelated side-note, your borough has far too many slugs. You should do something about that.

I’ve emailed Greenwich Council about this, let’s see if they reply.

EDIT 5 November: I got a reply shortly after saying “we’ve forwarded your message to the appropriate department”, but nothing more after that.