Jul
30
How I have managed to get through over a year of this blog and not talked properly about Covent Garden is a mystery…. Okay, so, once upon a time, in the deepest darkest depths of the early modern period, Covent Garden was a proper fruit and vegetable market renowned for prostitution and gin. It sat …
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Jul
09
Someone once defined ‘nationalism’ as a state of not-being. I am English because I am not French, I am Scottish because I am not, oh but so very much not English and so on and so forth. While as definitions go it leaves a certain something to be desired, it does seem that a lot …
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Jul
06
I walk everywhere. But once in a very blue moon I find myself the proud owner of a day travelcard, zones 1-4, and I go just a little bit travelcard crazy… In the world of urban magic, this is a genuine medical problem. Magic long since passed the point where a griffon’s feather was a …
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Jun
01
So, there’s not much to recommend Caledonian Rd underground station. It sits just north of half-way up the Cally Rd, more Holloway than it is Islington, opposite an uninteresting block of flats and a recycling/rubbish dump. The nearest attraction of any real note is the Tennis Centre, and even that isn’t renowned for its bringing …
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May
25
The speculation has come so close that I figure I may as well add the final photo that solves this particular mystery… Looking East… Looking North East…. Looking North North East! Can you see where it is yet? Who’d have thought a Novotel would have such interesting views…
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May
21
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So, remember how every now and then I post up pictures and say ‘guess where these were taken from’? It’s another one of those… ALTHOUGH… I’m actually holding back two pictures which would give you the immediate answer to your contemplations and there is already a stonking clue in one of them… so deep breath… …
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Apr
28
I was born and raised in Hackney. Technically, if we’re going to wax literal about this, I was born in St.Bartholemew’s Hospital, Smithfields, the day after a nuclear disaster and a few months before the maternity ward shut down, and while this is not in Hackney, by dint of being within the sound of Bow …
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Apr
01
So! I went to the theatre a few days ago, for the first time in ages. The ironic thing about learning how to work in theatre, is that you never really have time to go and see the real thing… but anyway… we found discount tickets to go and see a show in the West …
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Mar
28
So, I went to a place today, and there was a view, and it was cool. And this is it. The question of course being for anyone curious… … where was this?
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Mar
09
… but my phone, it turns out, has an internal camera. As, in fact, does the phone of my friend, with whom I found myself crossing Blackfriar’s Bridge on one of those evenings when London really does its thing. I sometimes get asked what I have in common with my characters, especially narrators like Matthew …
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