Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Escalator

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It's been a while since I had a good escalator story. But I noticed it a couple of weeks ago and checked it today. At Manor House tube s...
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Friday, 24 June 2016

Fifedom of Londonium

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So, now Scotland feels it is democratically unfair to make them leave the EU and so will demand another vote on leaving the United Kingdom. ...

Rich neighbourhoods

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I don't know why I'm finding it hard working in a rich neighbourhood but I am.  This isn't just the City - fancy offices full of...

!!!

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A vote for?? We don't know. Not for strength in unity. All the Brexitiers jubilant all over the TV. Everyone on both sides saying the pe...
Thursday, 23 June 2016

Bus journey

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It's wet this evening. Half the tube system was broken this morning so I hopped on a bus from - a 27 bus. It took me up Kensington Churc...
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EU Referedum

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So the day of reckoning is upon us. Hopefully you have voted and based it on  serious well-researched information and not exclusively media-...
Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Minor irritations

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The absolute worst part of working in open plan offices is listening to other people crunching on crisps or carrots. Teeth gnashing crunchy ...
Monday, 20 June 2016

Bigger things

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There are more important things to say than the anecdotes that I have been putting up. I just am not sure how I am supposed to say them.  SH...

Hello Israel

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And I don't know how come or what caused it but there has been an ENORMOUS spike in visits from Israel this last week - 11,700 visits - ...

Wet feet

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It was pouring. Have you got your umbrella he asked as they got ready to leave. I was thinking it's only two short walks either end ......
Friday, 17 June 2016

Nudity

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So we used to look down on people's flats from our office in Peckham and see into bedrooms. I have written about it before. Now in this ...
Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Second week

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More than one person has greeted me and said jokily, "that's good you've come back for a second week". It piques my old in...
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Friday, 10 June 2016

Week one

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Been exhausted by the newness of it all. Similar process, protocols, types of people but somehow the unfamiliar and understanding dynamics a...
Thursday, 9 June 2016

Its different here

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Gone are the tiny import/export businesses, cacophony of hair and nail salons and mixture of whole food cafes and greasy spoons. In its plac...
Tuesday, 7 June 2016

New job

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So I started yesterday. Most lovely is the shortened journey - a mere 50 minutes as opposed to the old hour and a half. But it's differe...
Friday, 20 May 2016

Last day of work

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It's the last working day of an 8 week notice period that has been a bit of a marathon. I sit here in the window of a cafe watching pink...
Friday, 18 March 2016

Hearing the blues

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Gradually become aware of blues music, heavy twangy electric guitar and black male voice drifting up from the street. Remember the last time...
Friday, 29 January 2016

Return to Thatcher's Britain

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My overwhelming memories of the endless Thatcher years were of striking teachers, striking miners, war mongering in far off places and abjec...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Locked

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Unusually a gridlock at the end of my street - cars from both side roads bullying their way into traffic on opposite sides of the road, line...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016

Lumiere London 2016

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