Monthly Archives: February 2009
You know what? Gay IS the word.
More bookshopping shenanigans today. Another shop on Marchmont Street, just a few doors down from the School of Life (remember that one?) is Gay’s the Word, which, as you might imagine from its name, is a shop that specialises in … Continue reading
Filed under Arts, Bloomsbury, Literature, London, Shopping, Uncategorized, Weird shops
For God’s sake, The Metropolitan Police
Un-PC PCs Continue reading
Filed under Crime, Current events, London
Are you lost, little tube train?
Recycling TO THE EXTREME!!!!! Continue reading
Filed under Arts, Bloomsbury, Buildings and architecture, Camden, London, London Underground, Randomness, Transport, Weird shops
London Lies, Part 2 – A Trip to the British Museum
More flagrant examples of libel, but the people involved have been dead for several thousand years, so it’s okay. Continue reading
Filed under Bloomsbury, History, Lies, London, Museums, Photos, Randomness
Sinister Camden
Camden’s place in the occult history of the city, and some shopping. Continue reading
Filed under Camden, History, London, London Underground, Notable Londoners, Occult, Psychogeography, Shopping, Transport
Tube Wars
Out-and-out war between rival Underground lines. Continue reading
Filed under History, Kensington, London, London Underground, Transport
Joseph Manton’s Huge Bottom
I think it would be fun, in many ways, to live in the eighteenth century. It seems to have been the sort of time when you could get away with anything. A word that crops up again and again in … Continue reading
Filed under Crime, History, London, Notable Londoners, Randomness, Regency
West to East
A walk along the North Bank of the River Thames. Continue reading
Filed under Geography, History, London, Photos, Psychogeography, Rambling on and on, Randomness, Thames, Transport
Pepys gets stoned
Samuel Pepys getting sliced in the gentlemen’s prerogatives, Samuel Pepys’ second birthday, Samuel Pepys eating lots of food, Samuel Pepys not drinking enough water. Continue reading
Filed under Booze, Food, History, London, Medicine, Notable Londoners, Rambling on and on, The Restoration
