Tag: London

Sorry, no fish today

Had the luxury of travelling on a bus a few weeks ago from Victoria to Charing Cross. I call it a luxury because it give a different perspective from pavement level when you sit upstairs (at the front pretending to be the driver obviously). Instead of sitting on the Westminster Abbey side I went for… Continue reading Sorry, no fish today

The Dog’s Nose

“Mr Walker, a convert to the Brick Lane branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association, thought that tasting Dog’s Nose twice a week for 20 years had lost him the use of his right hand.”  The passage comes from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. At first I thought it was perhaps some… Continue reading The Dog’s Nose

Let’s play “Blind Chivvy”

I was unaware of the game Blind Chivvy or psychogeography* as it is sometimes known. That was until I started to read a book called London Pilgrimages written in 1928 by Robert Thurston Hopkins. The book is quite a niche guidebook with seventeen chapters, one entitled Charlie Chaplin’s early days. I’d never heard of Hopkins… Continue reading Let’s play “Blind Chivvy”

Dizzy

One Word Sunday Cromwell Road SW7 + a few beers + some banging tunes

Evocative

When I have a few minutes to spare I do like to just stand (or sit with a pint) in a location, let my mind wander and try to imagine what the area was like fifty, a hundred, a hundred and fifty years ago. Sometimes this can be quite difficult as modern life always tries… Continue reading Evocative

Peep(s)

One Word Sunday “Up betimes and hence to the work machine to create the one word postage upon the Sabbath. Sorely vexed upon failing to compose such a piece so then resulted to roguish knavery and therefore did cheat by contrivance of word play”.