Saturday, 31 May 2014

Upsets of the Stomach

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Was greatly looking forward to hooking up with bails and getting a few drinks après work on Friday night. Good to let the hair down after a ...
Thursday, 29 May 2014

The Barrow Boy and Banker

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"Meet you at the barrow boy and banker (sounds like a gay porno)" I've been in the pub before, it's always full of after...
Sunday, 25 May 2014

Flicker of recognition

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The bars are full of excitable young people spilling out onto the pavements, corralled into smoking areas or queuing sections. Overseen by b...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

Overheard

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"I'm so lucky that my nicest finger is my marriage finger. So lucky. Nicest by far"
Friday, 23 May 2014

Travel writing workshop

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Peter Carty - Travel writing workshops Never been to a writing workshop so I had no idea what it was going to be like. Arrived 5 minutes e...
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Thursday, 22 May 2014

Glimpse

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A Mini Cooper in red with white bonnet stripes takes an empty side street between tall buildings bathed in evening post-storm sunlight and t...

Thunder and lightning

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Absolutely amazing rain - thick and heavy - huge crack of lightning directly overhead. Rumbling thunder. And then the shard reappears from t...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Modern life

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Here is an indictment of modern life - two people come to a cafe together for a coffee and spend the entire time plugged into their own phon...
Sunday, 18 May 2014

Supporter

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It might be a little known fact but I am an arsenal supporter - at least through a succession of dalliances I have grown to consider myself ...
Friday, 16 May 2014

Length of Service

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Paul was reminding Bails how long they had been together. It turns out - six years. Thats a sizable length of time. Especially for some of u...
Thursday, 15 May 2014

The Drunk and Disorderlies

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Me and the drunk and disorderlies (pops and his cronies including an almost-shared birthday twin of mine divided by a decade or two) went to...
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Friday, 9 May 2014

Smells

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There's someone on the bus with bad breath. Dont know if its the young man next to me who is leaning against me while playing a crap pho...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Girls

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Bright sunny day walking from Bank along King William Street with lots of bankers on lunch breaks, serious suited, women in court shoes and ...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

London Bridge Sheep Dip

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London Bridge station is being renovated to match the glass and steel look of the Shard. They have gradually removed the Victorian steel and...

Finding some peace

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Its the day after the 48hour tube strike. A day when i find my resiliance totally depleated. Its raining. Properly raining. I run across the...
Thursday, 24 April 2014

Crossing the river

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If you have to cross the river as part of the commute there's nothing better than doing that above ground - over one of the many bridges...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Beards

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When will the Hoxton Beard thing be over? On the train on the way to work there were two men both with impeccably well groomed hair - short ...
Saturday, 12 April 2014

Pub games

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Never been very good at pub games - crap at pool, bit of a danger at darts, dont know how to play bar billiards. Used to play Mortal Kombat ...
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Lunchtime

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Today the sun is breaking through the crispy white clouds to warm a chilly april day. The rays are so bright passing the glass of the cafe w...
Monday, 7 April 2014

Words i learned this week

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So i do a bit of pinterest pinning: collecting visual stimulation into groups. Lots of ceramics, photos of the human body that i might event...
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