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, 27 November 2007

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Hoodies Sarf London, home of the hoodie, where even dogs wear them. He's hard (actually I think being an alsatian is hard enough on its ...
Friday, 23 November 2007

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Follow my leader Battery of tests, again. From before it came out that I have a power motive - not necessarily about taking over the world o...
Tuesday, 20 November 2007

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Sent to Coventry The commuters and I rode the train from Euston. Jolly, crammed on. Dark fell suddenly, dark clouds been overhead all day. R...
Sunday, 18 November 2007

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Hat A man walks down the street. It is night and a chill wind carries icy rain into his face. He is wearing a blue and white striped plastic...
Saturday, 17 November 2007

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Persuasive He bounded out of the bus all rubbery legs and leaping like Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz when he first gets off the pole. His ...
Friday, 16 November 2007

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Things I'm loving about November Fallen leaves on tarmac driven into the fabric of the road. Frosty mornings and crisp nights. The chill...
Wednesday, 14 November 2007

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Tea cosy Outside work, standing at the bus stop, was a woman who was wearing what could only really be described as a human-sized tea cosy. ...
Tuesday, 13 November 2007

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Crack On the way into the Louise Bourgeois we stood on either side of the crack. Couldn't go all the way along to the widest part ...
Monday, 12 November 2007

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Fire A fire's light flickers against the curtains at 1.30am. Looking out of the window my neighbour is burning old kitchen cupboards in ...
Sunday, 11 November 2007

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Cold wind blows I sit in the open doorway wrapped in a blanket watching the last dozen or so yellow leaves torn off the tree. Garden is clo...
Friday, 2 November 2007

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Guess Where London I'm a bit addicted to this London picture game! I haven't known any of the places so far though. Time to get mor...
Thursday, 1 November 2007

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Angsty Halloween Bus stop Archway. Saw my old English teacher Peta Webb . Small with henna-red hair. Folk singer. She once sang to our class...
Wednesday, 31 October 2007

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Happy Halloween ! (Pumpkin lanterns made out of clay with tea lights - made in the 10 minute exercise at ceramics class a couple of weeks a...
Tuesday, 30 October 2007

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Centre Point Central point in London is a big tower block. I go to meetings there occassionally. This time it was the 18th floor. If I worke...
Saturday, 27 October 2007

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Windows of the Rich Canonbury Square at dusk - large Georgian houses with genrous doors all painted black. The gardens in the centre are sha...

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Influences of Harry Potter I stopped into the opticians to see if they had a different kind of glasses - fancying something new, less square...
Friday, 26 October 2007

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Friday Feeling For some reason everyone was wearing jeans today. Very relaxed. Sort of hung over from previous night's shinanegans. It w...
Tuesday, 23 October 2007

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Beautiful Morning Images There's an advet on the tube about a club you enter in London and exit in New York that compares the two citie...
Sunday, 21 October 2007

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Sunday Shopping and Strolling, Harringay Green Lanes Turkish barbers is busy with young men getting short, shaved lines and sculpted crowns....
Thursday, 18 October 2007

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Ceramics Class So we discovered the extruder and started making these big perfect coils really quickly. I'm not sure its actually qui...
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