The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: London
Wandering Curios #walks #london
The other day I prepped a walk for some old friends around some of the waterways and green spaces of London. Yesterday was that day and it was sunny and lovely and everyone turned up. The thing about this city, … Continue reading
Posted in London, miscellany, walking
Tagged banquetting house, giro memorial, green ark, hyde park, London, millicent fawcett, Regents Canal, regents oark, Shand elephants, walking
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Lovely London #walking #lambeth #southbank #towerbridge #thamespath #wapping #limehouse #regentscanal
A month or so ago I described, briefly a walk I undertook from St Pancras Station, along the Regent’s Canal to Regent’s park and then south via Hyde, Green and St James’ Parks to Westminster and across Lambeth Bridge. Friends … Continue reading
Posted in London, walking
Tagged lambeth palace, limehouse basin, regent's canal, river thames, south bank, thames path, tower bridge, Walk, wapping
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Memorials And Memories #thoughts
Back in 2014 there was a memorial at the Tower of London, with ceramic poppies, one for each Commonwealth casualty during WW1. It was memorable and very moving, especially when they read out my great uncle Willie Dyson’s name and … Continue reading
Posted in London, miscellany, thought piece, visits
Tagged Covid, dog, London, memorial, St Tommy’s, visit, wall
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Green And Pleasant
After a short spell in the suburban desert of North Surrey, I was lucky enough to live in the depths of the New Forest, which, for those of you not familiar with the intimate details of England is one hundred … Continue reading
The London Olympics – My Part In Its Downfall: Part Two
Having won the bid, the initial euphoria diminished somewhat. Beijing still had to host their games and there was sure to be a lot of controversy there. In addition, in typical British ways, as soon as we’d done something successful … Continue reading
Posted in experiences, history, law, London, miscellany, Olympics
Tagged history, London, memories, Olympics
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One London Garden: A Year Of Drought And Delight 2018 #flowers #gardens #london
So this is shamelessly self-indulgent, but if you want to experience a year in a London garden, if you want to debunk the myth about England’s constantly grey and drizzly skies, if you want to see Dog during a year of … Continue reading
Moving West #capitalring #walking
I left off the other day, in Eltham Park North. We lunched in Eltham, an odd place that mixes large 1920s housing aimed at the newly affluent city middle class with a residue of the footpads and gangsters of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital ring, London, walking
Tagged beckenham, capital ring, Crystal Palace, downham, eltham, Eltham Palace
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Where The East Begins #capitalring #walking
A week or so ago, I wrote about a wander with the APE when we did a section of the Capital Ring, a circular walk around London that aims to take in as many of the green spaces as possible … Continue reading
Posted in capital ring, Friends, London, miscellany, walking
Tagged capital ring, Crystal Palace, maryon wilson park, military history, Thames, woolwich
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Naturalised Londoner – The Outdoor Life, Part Two
In part one I set the scene, of my joys as a delivery boy, here. The nadir so far as this role was concerned came in the Spring of 1980. The senior partner had a client who worked in the … Continue reading
Posted in humour, law, London, miscellany
Tagged articled clerk, deliveries, humour, London, memoires
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