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.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Morning Coffee

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There's this arsehole in Costa's with a group of 7 management students. They are having morning coffee and he is lecturing them (Aus...
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Monday, 20 August 2012

Morning make over

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She's 40ish wearing a blue suit and doing her makeup on the train. So far she has the panda eyeshadow done and is colouring in her eyebr...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Olympic Hangover

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I miss the Olympics. I miss the buzz in the city - all the upbeat happy people sitting around the parks watching big screens. It felt like b...
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Monday, 13 August 2012

Square head

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Three Italian people sit down at the cafe next to me. See this man , one woman says, he has a square head. The Russian would have had a squa...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

What Olympic sport are you built for?

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Getting into the Olympic spirit wondering what sport would be easiest for someone in their late thirties to get into. Something less punishi...
Monday, 6 August 2012

Dirty Books

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Sunday, 5 August 2012

Sport, sport, sport

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OMG - the Olympics is great. So many great results for team GB. So many crazy sports that I'm suddenly into. Like the kieron (with the w...
Saturday, 4 August 2012

Après Work

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Friday. Love Friday. The sun was shining, warm afternoon glow. Me and a mass of tourists were hanging in the Southbank. I bought some books ...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Mens Water Cooler Moment

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Have you been watching the Olympics? I sat down on the first day and watched six hours of cycling. I'm thinking what am I doing, I don...
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Evening Chill

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Walking along old street from the roundabout, it's a warm summer Olympic evening. A couple pass me - he's tall and broad wearing hal...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Longing

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The sun goes down in a clear sky - orange orb with an orange glow. Dipping below the trees across a park's paddock, recently mowed, spar...
Saturday, 21 July 2012

Loafing

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Three young men hanging out in the Brunswick Centre (it has now lost the centre from its name - probably in a rebranding exercise - calls i...
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Thursday, 19 July 2012

Lunchtime seduction

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A man and a woman meet in Costas for lunch. He arrives first and chooses a table, securing it with his suit jacket slung over the seat back....
Saturday, 14 July 2012

Beatroot

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Eating small box of food in Beatroot on Berwick Street. It's a pathway. Lots of people passing in both directions between Soho and Oxfor...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Yo! Where is everyone?

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It's 10 o'clock. Working late. Popped in on the way home to save cooking. 2 cucumber maki 1 vegetable yakisoba And a pumpkin kar...
Saturday, 7 July 2012

Saturday

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Shopping in town - bumped into the architect who designed the renovation to our building at work with his beautiful wife who was a bit taken...
Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Cycling in the wind

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At the end of a warm June day cyclists criss cross the intersection where I'm sitting. The wind is blowing up the sleeves of my jacket a...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Yoko Ono Private View, Serpentine Gallery

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I've gotten here too early - I'm a guest at the regular old Private View for the plebs and there is still half an hour of the Specia...
Sunday, 17 June 2012

New Cats

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So last weekend, Susanna and I drove up the A1M to Glaisdale in the North York Moors to collect my new kittens (its a long way to go for a c...
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Saturday, 16 June 2012

The Most Irritating Laugh In The World

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She's sitting very close by with a big group if friends and her laugh rings out loudly like a machine gun. Waaahhahahahaaa. Haahaa. Ah h...
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