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Tag Archives: london
What a Show!
I had a ball at the Rammstein concert last Thursday. Wembley Arena shook to the German sextet’s dark, thumping industrial rock riffs amid smoke bombs, fireballs, flamethrowers and other pyrotechnics. I’d bought four standing tickets and took Elliot and two … Continue reading
The Icy Peaks of Muswell Hill
“So Chris, how’s your New Year’s resolution going? You know, the one where you promised to update the blog a bit more often?” “Fine thanks, as you can see by… erm… this.” Abigail had her second 15th birthday today. Not … Continue reading
Mystery of the Pole. Solved. (?)
Well I must say how overwhelmed I was by your responses to my recent pole poll…NOT! In the 48 hrs since posting I’ve had a grand total of three votes, and one of them was me. Honestly I don’t know … Continue reading
“Whadda We Want?” “A New Horn!” “Whenna We Wannit?” “NOW!”
I took part in my first ever mass demonstration yesterday, and me in my late 40′s. Just goes to show what a lazy easy-going person I am I guess. I joined 500 of my fellow London bikers in a slow … Continue reading
The Lager Lout Express
Karen and I had a nice day out in London yesterday, including some shopping, a visit to the excellent Borough Market, taking in a few sights along the way, Nice and quiet on a Saturday morning The Millenium Bridge from … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, days out, dickens, lager louts, london, markets, shakespeare
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Central Park
HA! Gotcha! Thought you were about to read something about The Big Apple didn’tcha? But no, instead you have to listen to me ranting on about parking my bike in Central London LOL <– (that last bit to prove to … Continue reading
Christmas Wedding
Our Christmas holiday got off to a great start with my cousin Ruth’s wedding on December 23rd. Ruth & Tim’s wedding party set off from Finchley in North London on a double decker red London bus specially hired for the … Continue reading
Re-Sale
We hit the sales for the second time today: this time at Westfield in White City. Again the crowds were out in force but fortunately the sheer size of Westfield means that you don’t feel claustrophobic even when it’s jam … Continue reading
Highgate Cemetery
DSC_7925, originally uploaded by c_neal. Having lived in Highgate for almost ten months now Karen and I finally got around to visiting the famous cemetery at the weekend. Highgate Cemetery is the famous home of the tomb of Karl Marx … Continue reading
A Home From Home
Last night in London saw the performance of The Secret Policeman’s Ball ’08 at The Royal Albert Hall. The SPB is a charity comedy show featuring stars of stand-up, sitcoms and other radio and TV sketch shows. This year the … Continue reading
