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.

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Ode to City and Islington College Thursday Evening (and one yearofWednesday evenings) Ceramics Class

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So the news is bad. Despite over 3500 petition signatures (some of whom are huge in art and ceramics circles including but not limited to:...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Reservoir Dogs

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We are having a bit of a problem with a gang of black and white cats. They seem to congregate around our house - here they are on the shed r...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Milestones

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I went to sleep thinking about firsts - all the little firsts that add up to the building of a relationship. The first sighting. The first k...
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Monday, 23 February 2015

50 Shades of Rubbish

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Worth avoiding at a cinema near you now: Fifty Shades of Grey . This trilogy should stop believing its own hype. So I read the first book....
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Sunday, 15 February 2015

Electric shock

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I just got an electric shock from my cooker - I had to clean it after our mammoth marmalade making session yesterday. Marmalade is very...
Tuesday, 10 February 2015

One of those days

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Its one of those days, packed into a crowded commuter train with view only of the details of those around you. And I want to advise them and...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Transit

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Crushed onto the Victoria line, front side crammed against a huge man's back - he is canoodling with his partner and being her rock, bac...
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Saturday, 31 January 2015

Save Ceramics Department Petition

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Please sign this petition to the City and Islington College Government and managers asking them to stop the closure of the ceramics departm...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Lips

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It's all about the lips this morning on the tube. The man reading silently but moving his lips. The pale pink high gloss pouty lips with...
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Monday, 26 January 2015

Ceramics class

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I have been attending a class at City and Islington College for the last seven years. It's a ceramics class. We have always paid full-fe...
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Friday, 23 January 2015

Seven Sisters to Highbury

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There's a beautiful woman, perfect cat eyes with a black eye-lined flick from each corner and full kissy lips like Angelina Jolie having...
Thursday, 8 January 2015

Transportation

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The misery of the transportation system brought it's load to bear today. Started with continuing traumas at London Bridge station from t...
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Monday, 5 January 2015

Working

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First day back to work after the new year was welcomed in. Can't quite remember what we go to that place for. There are tasks, on a comp...
Wednesday, 31 December 2014

2014

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Roller coaster year. Began with the start of a realisation that what I thought it was, wasn't, which led eventually to a heartbreak, not...
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Thursday, 25 December 2014

Merry Christmas one and all

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From the mouths of innocents

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At dinner today my nephew asked me if K (the current man) was a replacement of  B (previous man), and was B a replacement of E (man before B...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Dismantled

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Gradually all these gasometers are being dismantled. When I was an art student I took lots of pictures of them - they were structures which ...
Monday, 22 December 2014

Winter holiday

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Today I am on leave. Until January 5th. Leaving work on Friday didn't really feel like anything. Weekend was great. But it was a weekend...
Friday, 5 December 2014

Open Plan Hot-Desking

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I’ve always known open plan hot-desking is bad for me because I can clearly recognise the impact it has on concentration and increased irrit...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

Gary Numan

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So Friday night was gig night - invited to come by Bails and her fella - joining the Numanoids for a special one off at the Hammersmith Apol...
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