Witty people

This building on the South banks of the river Thames is the City Hall. It's home to the Greater London Assembly (GLA), whose responsibilities include transport and communications and social services in the 32 boroughs of London and the City of London.

Today was Mayor's Question Time and as the acting Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is famous for his spontaneous and funny remarks, it was my last chance today to see myself if this is true.

Most questions he had to answer were related to improving the traffic in London. He dealt with a nearly accident of two planes above London some weeks ago, another nearly accident in the tube when an engineering train drove backwards on Northern Line, the recent tube strikes, plans to reduce the opening times of tube ticket offices, the Olympic lanes, the Mayor's bike hire scheme and the identification of Rickshaw drivers.

As expected, Boris Johnson was very entertaining. It all started with him and his whole Tory faction not turning up for the first five minutes to avoid that the GLA is complete to make a decision on future proceedings.

In the afternoon, the Reverend of St. Leonhard's church in Shoreditch led us through its highly interesting crypt. The church is said to stand on the ground of the first Roman settlement of London and strongly connected to Shakespeare.

Many actors of Shakespeare plays of the very beginning are buried here. The crypt is full of coffins, some are piled five layers high and have already collapsed. But the best bit was the very knowledgeable and witty Reverend, Paul Turp, himself. Just discovered that he inspired the BBC show Rev.