Jun
21
I’ve been building up to this entry for a while, because there’s too much to say. And in fact, I don’t intend to say very much on the subject of the Thames now, as it’d take many many hours and thousands of words to really cover anything. My cunning plan is to try and break …
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Jun
21
A confession to get the ball rolling - I don’t like Star Trek. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I can see the appeal – from a narrative point of view, it’s pure genius. You’ve got a premise which allows you to go pretty much anywhere, meet pretty much anyone, with a diverse and potentially interesting …
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Jun
21
A while back, I started in on a list of my favourite writers, and got as far as Roger Zelazny before becoming distracted by the usual plethora of Stuff and Things that keep on cropping up. But I figure now is the time to remedy that and get onto Great Hero No.2 – Raymond Chandler. …
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Jun
12
This post is going to be nearly all photos, since the subject of statues in London is something that I will need years to ramble about. But it is thrown in here for anyone who has ever crossed Holborn Viaduct without really paying much attention, and all those who made the fatal error of watching …
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Jun
12
So, circumstance conspired to take me into the City of Westminster. This is not somewhere I regularly visit, but a trade show at Victoria showcasing all things theatrical and nerdy, combined with a tube strike, took me off my regular travel patterns. I had to get from Victoria to Euston, and hadn’t packed an A-Z. …
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Jun
12
An individual who shall remain anonymous, as we walked together across Waterloo Bridge a few nights ago, had a rant that went something like this: ‘I hate tube strikes day. I hate the way everyone in London talks like its the worst thing in the world, they just moan and moan and it’s like ‘oh god, …
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Jun
12
Firstly, it’s been, as always, an age since I last posted. More over, it’s taken me an age to work out how to read the large collection of very nice comments that have been left on the site - I wish there was some handy excuse for why I don’t know how to work my own …
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