Friday, 28 July 2006

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Actors are people too Waiting at a stop just after Parliament Square , tapping my foot irritatedly having been chucked off a number 12 that ...
Thursday, 27 July 2006

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Heatwave Everything is still below the leaden sky. Pigeons and crows stand in anticipation on the ridges of roofs. Tower blocks and gasom...
Wednesday, 26 July 2006

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Brief Interlude * dumbing down warning * Glen and Pete are the incarnation of Beavis and Butthead , talking to Big Brother (referring to her...

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Shafted If I believed in such things I'm sure my stars this week would say something like: as the moon of misfortune passes through your...
Tuesday, 25 July 2006

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Visitor Explosion I'm riding the crest of a popularity wave (well actually I believe I'm on the downward slope back to normality). I...
Friday, 21 July 2006

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Ice-cream The only way to cool down after travelling in the glasshouse train, tube or bus is to eat ice-cream. Sitting with a not-quite-cold...
Wednesday, 19 July 2006

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Sweat in the City So its predicted to be a blistering 36C today. Already the tubes are unbearably hot, train lines are buckling, buses are g...
Tuesday, 18 July 2006

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Save the Pigeon Having spotted him some weeks ago in next doors garden dragging his broken wing, he finally turned up on our backdoor thresh...
Saturday, 15 July 2006

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London Alphabet B is for Bridges London exists because of the river. And also because of the river it is a divided city. Cut in two. You...
Friday, 14 July 2006

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PAARRTTEEEE Next door are a bunch of students. MA students. Coming to the end of their year. They're having another party. Its Friday. I...
Thursday, 13 July 2006

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Three Things The no.12 drove over a discarded Stella can, it popped loudly and sprayed beer foam on my new birkenstocks. A lady with a big ...
Monday, 10 July 2006

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Staff Forum Bails reminded me today that I used to be on the staff forum (she is now representing her department on this body). I had comple...

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3.20pm I was sitting enjoying the view from the top deck of a No.1 when a scream of school girls invaded. The screeches and hoots of laught...
Friday, 7 July 2006

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London Alphabet I went to the shop to buy a new moleskin notebook. They were all wrapped in celophane. I could see the ribbon coming out fr...

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7/7 Its the anniversary of a terrifying day. The tube was eerily quiet today, not the crush and rush of usual friday mornings, many people a...
Thursday, 6 July 2006

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Blogging I was reading the Guardian online today and decided that since blogging has become mainstream it has lost some of its in-the-club ...

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Sky The sky is not just blue, it is intensely blue and grey and yellow and white and bright. It has depth and form and structure.
Wednesday, 5 July 2006

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Peckham Rye Drinkers Travelling by train at 8.50am a boy grabs his girlfriend's waist as they wait for the train to stop. He has a can o...
Tuesday, 4 July 2006

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Heatwave Just to point out the obvious we're having a heatwave here. Stepping out of the house this morning the heat was physical, a for...
Wednesday, 28 June 2006

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Furore A stinky man sat down next to me, despite there being plenty of empty space, which seemed odd to me. He had a big bag which he arrang...