One of the best things about living in a capital city is your constant proximity to THE NEWS. Yes, sorry all you buggers in the provinces think the news is too London-centric, that’s because a lot of the news happens in London. And often you br[…]

London Conclusions (thus far – 64 posts in 20 days)
London is expanding and vanishing at the same time. There is dogging in Green Park and strange characters in Epping Forest, Pete sort of designed a logo, rivers are fascinating (The Thames, Th[…]

Food Court London — as is unsurprisingly the case in this our world of everything and anything in one place at one time (if you have the money and access to the right location), there are about eight million restaurants in London that presumabl[…]

Mikey suggests that Colebrooke Road covers the Regents Canal
Here’s the pictures from the wall near my bathroom (1835 on the left)

It seems to me that looking at the roads around, nothing has changed their alignment – Upper Street, Essex[…]

And a Nelson reigns over them all — to this day I’m not at all sure what borders Trafalgar Square. I’ve seen the buildings enough times and all, but they just seem sorta there, you know — big slabs of marble that I’m su[…]

VANISHING LONDON: The W1 Logo Outside The West One Shoping Centre
Why would anyone bemoan the loss of a brass insert logo on a piece of paving on Oxford Street. There are other things more worth of missing on Oxford Street, before you get to this rat[…]

An Office Debate:
Colleague: “I saw some dogging yesterday in Green Park!”
All in office: “How do you get a car into Green Park?”
Colleague: “You don’t need a car! I was walking by and saw two people having sex on […]

West Ended
I read in the South London Press that So Solid’s Romeo is accused of involvement in a stabbing incident in Soho. This is obviously a bad thing for all concerned. I also note that, as part of the conditions of his bail, he has been or[…]

Maps the way I like it
Every morning I wake up at 8am. I listen to the Today programme for 10 minutes. I so my ablutions and get ready for the day, which takes about 30 minutes. But every day, I still leave the house at 9am. The cause of the 20 minut[…]

Looking for CDs in all the wrong (but mostly right) places — the first time I visited the UK I actually didn’t spend much time in London itself, instead I was in Oxford, Glasgow and somewhere in Devon, which actually created a nice if lim[…]