London 17/09/2022 Saturday – Queen Queue As we all know, the Queen has died and one of the longest queues ever seen is taking place in London. The mother of all queues became an attraction in itself: performance art, pilgrimage, madness… The queue’s meaning being in the eye of the…
Trees of Tooting Bec Common
27 October 2017 Trees of Tooting Bec Common I did an online horticulture course around a year ago (RHS Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Horticulture @ Open Study College, Level 2 Certificate in Principles of Horticulture), it was really interesting but I haven’t really utilised much of what I…
Beer, cassette and vinyl – Independent Label Market
28/03/2015 – Independent Label Market – Spitafields https://www.independentlabelmarket.com/ Since launching on Berwick St in May 2011, Independent Label Market has brought together the founders of over 180 of the World’s greatest independent record labels on both sides of the Atlantic to sell their fresh vinyl produce directly to the public…
Greater London National Park 10 mile walk
24 Jan 2015 Greater London National Park 10 mile walk I can’t quite remember how, but a few months ago I heard about this idea of making London into the first National Park city in the world. That’s pretty much all it took to get me on board. It sounded…
Sport Relief @ VeloPark
21 March 2014 Sport Relief @ VeloPark I got an email a few weeks ago about this event, a legacy of when I bought tickets to the Paralympics. I still get emails – I’m glad I didn’t unsubscribe, for once. For a mere £15 we would get to spend the…
Thursday, 15th of August 2013 – Westminster – Thames Barrier boat trip
Thursday, 15th of August 2013 Westminster – Thames Barrier boat trip Went on boat trip with friends, from Westminster to Thames Barrier and back (3 hours in total). We had planned on going to Lido but the weather wasn’t that great, we did this instead. Never had been that far.…
Wednesday, 14th of August 2013 – British 10km London
Wednesday, 14th of August 2013 British 10km London It has been a wonderful Summer, properly hot! I even have a tan and we have been to the Lido! Not with you, you never really want to do anything with us anymore… Jeff has been training for a 10km race, for…
Wednesday, 10th of September 2012 – London 2012 Olympics
Wednesday, 10th of September 2012 – London 2012 Olympics Olympics 2012: July – Sep The games finally got on the way after years of expectation. They have been and gone and it’s been fun. There was so much controversy surrounding it all, but in the end it was a big…
I could have been a porn star!
London, sometime in early 1991… I was living with my then boyfriend in a nice, one bedroom flat in Seven Sisters, after he’d been evicted from the squat where we first met and he decided to actually pay rent. He was earning a good wage as a civil engineer and…