Rather loose quoting, I must admit, but I think the sense of it is there

[ewx]

"Northampton [...] fills me with rising sense of panic"

Comments

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Do you feel Cambridge is in London, by the way? I'd like to adopt it as one of our chi-chi 'urban villages'.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Cambridge and Oxford are both in London.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

No they're not. My weekend travelcards aren't valid in either of them :)

[uon.livejournal.com]

It *is* in London — change at King's Cross for the WAGN line (I think it's a bit like the DLR), and, a while later, you're there. I guess that makes it in Zone 1, too; Oxford I get to via Shepherd's Bush, which would make it Zone 2.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Does that mean I'm in Zone 1 also?

[uon.livejournal.com]

Are you Cambridge? If so, yes:

(1) Cambridge is in Zone 1.
(2) pseudomonas is Cambridge.
(3) Therefore, pseudomonas is in Zone 1.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

(1) King's Cross in in Zone 1
(2) Edinburgh is got to via King's Cross
(3) pseudomonas is in Edinburgh.

so...

The strange case of Dr. Edinburgh and Mr. London

[uon.livejournal.com]

Edinburgh is sufficiently twisty and non-Euclidean that it wouldn't surprise me if someone discovered that Ulan Bator was in fact hidden in a passageway just off the Royal Mile.

Re: The strange case of Dr. Edinburgh and Mr. London

[megamole.livejournal.com]

You've just discovered L-Space. HTH-HAND.

Re: The strange case of Dr. Edinburgh and Mr. London

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

So *that's* why the bridges do that! it's the National Library doing it.

[uon.livejournal.com]

No, because libraries aren't involved, unless the library density in each city is sufficienly high to warp nearby space as well, which I guess isn't unfeasible.

If I construct a library of books written in mirror-writing, will I open up a portal into R-space instead?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Γ-space, depending on which way up the mirror was.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Well, given 'London Stansted' and 'London Luton', Cambridge definitely isn't far off being in London. In fact, if one uses the 'Glasgow Prestwick' scheme of city-limits classification then Cambridge is practically in zone 1.

[gerald_duck]

This may just have been a Labour government trying to scare people in John Major's old constituency, but for a while they appeared to be contemplating turning the old RAF Alconbury airbase (20 miles NW of Cambridge) into London Alconbury.

At that distance, they might as well call it Very East Midlands Airport, or Wolverhampton International, or…