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Tap tap…

January 4th, 2010

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Is this thing on? So cold, so blue, so quiet…


Sweating through early summer

May 24th, 2009

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The weather’s hotting up, the running’s been continuing and I’m making reasonable progress, having run 61Km this month in all kinds of weather. The low point was a particularly windswept 7k in Finsbury Park in which I got absolutely soaked and shat on by a bird with greeny-coloured poo. Today’s run was the longest so [...]


Two whole weeks off in London

October 19th, 2008

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The last time i had two consecutive weeks to myself was a very long time ago. Even at university, when only 30 weeks a year were spent in lectures, there wasn’t ever a time when I wasn’t staying up doing overnight recording sessions to finish off my portfolio or checking other people’s data entry to [...]


Victoria line closures in iCal format

September 21st, 2008

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I recently moved to Finsbury Park, and luckily the weekends have been nice enough to afford drinking tea outside on our teeny teeny little roof terrace thingy. Tea good. Victoria line being off is a slight nuisance though, and it causes all kinds of woe when people want brave the tube and come round to [...]


Who’d live in a house like this?

August 25th, 2008

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Over the last month or so I’ve been flat-hunting extensively, crossing the threshold of various abodes listening to the same estate agent spiel. Sadly the experience was nothing out of the ordinary, and despite what anyone says, garden flats will always be a bit dark; rooms remain the same size regardless of which way around [...]


Boris vs Ken: is this really happening?

April 6th, 2008

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Not normally one to comment on politics, but the London mayoral election race just seems so much closer than it ought to. I mean. Really. Boris Johnson? As mayor? For real? Is anyone really going to vote for him? With that hair? Johnson vs Livingstone: it’s now on a knife-edge Stop Boris


Hamlet on a Sunday

March 10th, 2008

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If you’ve a spare tenner next weekend get your ass along to The Factory theatre company’s Hamlet. It takes place in a different London venue each week with cast members playing different characters. There are no props other than those provided by the audience, which on my visit yesterday included a barbie doll, sponge, mop, [...]


The sounds of early 2008

February 23rd, 2008

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Here are a few things I’ve been listening to so far this year – I’m on the look out for some new aural stimulation, and trusty last.fm recommendations can only go so far before you need a bit of good old word-of-blog, so if you have a minute let me know what’s been floating your [...]


Aggregated fireworks

November 4th, 2007

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Like some deep-sea creature, originally uploaded by minor9th. Wandered up to Primrose Hill to watch some good old Guy Fawkes remberance last night – not expecting a display up there, but hoping to get a good vantage point over the rest of the London’s displays. All in all it was grand – bottle of port, [...]


La marché française

July 28th, 2007

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On the last weekend of July every year, there is a French market in Ealing. Today I bought some pain a l’oignon, as last year, because it’s right nice. So I put my GCSE French to good practice by asking for the bread in (crap) French, asking how much it was in French, and thanking [...]


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Velcro worn out by the youthful DaisySleeps timeTugDaisy and VelcroGreg and DaisyDaisy having a rare sitDaisyDaisy does her best scrappy doJay reads my own personalised SnewsOld trainers, new trainersRed or Black?Jimbo, Ricky and the monkehArriving on MercuryThe Martian invasion has failedLa chienne ne marche pasMulletsfield, Harrison Street, WC1BT Phone Exchange, Seaford St, WC1Tom operates on a broken heartVic having a little operational issueCycle hire begins - ding ding!