In the Aquarium
a londoner's life

I love my city because... It is constantly changing and yet familiar. Anonymous but friendly. Residential, industrial and entertaining. Fast paced with sedate pockets. I love my city because I am a Londoner.

Tuesday, 31 October 2006

halloween01

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Halloween Foot and Mouth walking tours did a special for halloween. Friends being invited to hear Chris Roberts stories of the dank ...
Saturday, 28 October 2006

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New House This week I have mostly been dealing with...house stuff. I've just had two weeks off. I have physically worked harder than I e...
Tuesday, 24 October 2006

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Bed Sometimes I just want to go to bed. I imagine it as me being y-shaped sliding between fresh sheets under a feather-light duvet, not bein...
Saturday, 21 October 2006

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Saturday Night Its dark and damp. Earlier in the day there had been two rainbows. I sit on the bottom deck of a 341 trundling along Philip L...
Monday, 16 October 2006

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Lifedrawing Its been quite a while since I last went to drawing class, but this drawing class at the Tate Modern interested me. Didn't c...
Sunday, 15 October 2006

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Mouse A mouse has moved in. I was sitting chatting to Pops during Prime Suspect when I saw it casually running up the centre of the kitchen ...
Saturday, 14 October 2006

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Something Found In my new house behind the mirror fronted white wardrobe that I dismantled while waiting for the electric meter man (white p...
Wednesday, 11 October 2006

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Big Dave's Gusset In June 2005 I wrote a poem that started with a piece of graffiti that I saw sprayed in a building on the train journe...
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Tuesday, 10 October 2006

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Blond bombshell Stick-thin platinum blond goes to the toilet. All the men let their gazes trail after her. She's not particularly gorgeo...
Thursday, 5 October 2006

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Ceramics Class So moving on from rudimentary pinch pots, we made coil pots last week. Rolls of clay built up in a sort of spiral, smoothing ...
Wednesday, 4 October 2006

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Bus Dramas The 341 bus driver forgot he was driving a 341. As we failed to make the appropriate turning at Tottenham Green, round in front o...
Tuesday, 3 October 2006

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Conference First I was at the London Assembly sitting watching out the window across the Thames at the Tower of London. Dreaming of working ...

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Late Later Latest Why is it that when you are late its never the bus you are waiting for that comes first?
Thursday, 28 September 2006

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Bollywood comes to... Harringay The boards warned of filming on Wednesday, car spaces outside numbers 91 - 97, and around the corner in Gree...

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Local History The W5 arrives. Everybody piles on. A man behind me asks the stranger next to him if he knows where Ashmount School is. The s...
Tuesday, 26 September 2006

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Knowledge Management I've been interested in the concept of knowledge management since I discovered that knowledge managers earned more ...
Monday, 25 September 2006

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Girl A girl caught my eye as I walked to the station. She was maybe 4'11, wearing white linen flares and a rucksack, striding home from ...
Thursday, 21 September 2006

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Ceramics Class Its been a long time since I did any life drawing and the creative urge was running wild. I had a vision of a bird table in t...

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Journey Somewhere in the South East, more southern and eastern than Lewisham a big fire is raging. Despite the fact the flames aren't vi...
Sunday, 17 September 2006

Neil Palmer

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Ridding the Self of an Addiction to Brands On our way back to the bus we passed a band of arty farty and fashion types gathering around a st...
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