The ubiquitous Banksy strikes again
not entirely sure who he’s striking agaist, we’ve always known that judges dress like this under their robes haven’t we? ooh, get you![…]

“Don’t play with your food!”
This stern injunction has blighted many a child’s teatime as a project for turning sausage and mash into a happy face is scuppered midway. Surely parents remember that playing with food is usually […]

EGGS BACON CHIPS AND BEANS: a blog stumbled across whilst searching for a decent café or coffee house for a non-alcoholic central London meetup. An absolutely SMASHING little blog filled of delicious pictures of fry-ups and great reviews. READ IT NO[…]

Public Inconvenience
A big railway station in London at 9.11pm last night. I’d had a couple of pints after work, and as per usual, arrived at the station needing the toilet. I decide not to use the one on platforms 5 and 6, but the one on platf[…]

Ned’s post below reminded me of a running pub conversation we’ve had over the past few weeks regarding the etymology of the word “wonk.” Fortunately I have my good friend google who offers some clues:
From here (big scroll dow[…]

POP FACTOR: 596 CONTROVERSY SCORE:
I’m not proud of losing touch with hip-hop, even the most commercial big-production hip-hop, so much but facts are facts and that’s what’s happened. All it needs I’m sure is one or two grea[…]

Evil under the sun — I’ve been reading Donald Rayfield’s Stalin and His Hangmen for the past few days. Good read, not quite as well-written perhaps as the recent similar study of Hitler’s inner coterie The Devil’s Disci[…]

LINKDON
Trip through the city, sonically
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY – go and read the links we’ve put on the sidebar, ignore the glib descriptions if you’d prefer. All worth a look.
Did anyone go?
All of a sudden, London has a skyline&#8221[…]

Grecian Earn Update
Regular readers will, I know, have been chewing away at their fingernails and wondering feverishly: “how are the Freaky Triglets getting on with their Grecian Earn?”
As you’ll see by our totaliser here, we’[…]

Hearty English cuisine — one of the first things I’ve also noticed ever since visiting London for the first time in 1992 is the places what sell food. In that hey! they’re the places that sell food in America! So seeing all sorts […]