All praise to Londonist for this, which is fantastic AND sadly true…
Category Archive: London
Apr
23
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Feb
09
Recession Grafitti
When the going gets tough, let us not pretend that the ordinary bod on the street isn’t hit. Let’s not pretend that it doesn’t leave its scars on our physical landscape and lives, ranging from street art to simple statements of sorrowful fact…
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Jan
29
Thick Snow in London
London in the snow is beautiful. A black and white landscape, children playing in the parks, snowmen on the lawn, icicles hanging off the traffic lights and a horizon made magical by the blur of silently falling snow. No getting round it – it’s absolutely stunning. But. London is a big, moving city, and unless …
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Jan
20
Bussing
I had no idea about this. Best thing to say – have a read of this for a phenomenon I had no idea about, but which I can sorta see happening all too easily. http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storyCode=6312383
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Nov
15
Aaaaaaaahhhh!
And I say again… aaaaahh! There’s nothing quite like getting a provisional bill for £11,700 from your local council for repair works to the council estate on which you live, to make you go…. aaaaaah! It’s not simply the complete lack of warning with which this documentation appeared, nor the fact that in a single …
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Oct
28
When the Clocks Go Back
London in that week before the clocks go back is a strange place. You wake in darkness, walk to work as the sun… doesn’t exactly rise, merely as the grey cloud in the sky shifts from being sodium-black to blue-grey, so that by the time daylight arrives properly the overall effect appears strange, diffuse. The …
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Oct
18
My Oyster Card
Alack, alas, my oyster card is… lost. This is a trauma up there with the day my third – not my first, but my third basil plant, the one I thought was doing really well, finally died. This is a figurative limb cut off, this is my pass to the whole of London, gone. And …
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Oct
11
Guerilla Sticker
This… http://imgur.com/a/lUWTG http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19858746 … also makes me really happy…
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Sep
07
From the Library of Dr London
Oh yeah, this…. http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/06/from-the-library-of-dr-london/ … is definitely my kinda cool.
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Aug
05
London Olympics… more mullings
So the London Olympics have kicked off and are pootling along nicely, and something rather strange has happened… towit, the whole thing hasn’t actually been an unmitigated disaster. Now, I know it’s a little disloyal to look at an event hosted by your native city with an eye of ‘oh why try, it’s going to …
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