On Wednesday evening L and I went to BoxPark Croydon to peruse the board(s) of fare ( Read more... )

Quite a good review of Croydon, mentioning a few pubs that I rate, and a very fine restaurant.

'Croydon for a pretty girl ...'

(Title from an 18th Century rhyme, included for free in the review. Be warned, review may contain language.)

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Last Wednesday cookwitch and I went to Albert's Table in South Croydon, once described by Jay Rayner as being the only reason to go to Croydon. While I might be offended by that, he definitely has a point. I originally discovered the restaurant by accident while looking for a restaurant with valkyriekaren, and after that visit, decided I definitely had to return! While ( Read more... )

Just heard a car alarm go off, and checking out of the window to see if it was mine, discovered that it was. Turns out it was also my next door neighbour's ( Read more... )

I've seen some special sights on the roads in Croydon (including the classic "South London dipped beam" (sidelights and foglights)), but on Saturday night I saw something truly ... well, almost unbelievable.

Driving into London on Saturday night to get to uberredfraggle's birthday drinks, we saw a car pull out ahead of us, swinging wide around the other parked ( Read more... )

Not sure if I'm going to go to either day of this, but in case anyone else in interested, it's Croydon Summer Festival this weekend, and it's free and in Lloyd Park, Croydon.

World Party
(Saturday 1st August)
The Proclaimers
Latin Dub Sound System
Candi Staton
Eduardo Niebla
Dreadzone
DJ/MC Normski
& more

Croydon Mela(Sunday 2nd August ( Read more... )

I'm afraid that, like just about everyone else, I was taking photos of the snow last night and today. Sorry about that (the fact that I'm posting some more photos of the snow, which you're probably all sick of by now, rather than the fact of the snow, which I didn't have anything to do with ( Read more... )

... one of your friends sends you a text telling you that someone has stolen their snowman ...

They made it last night, looked out an hour later ... no snowman. [grin]

In an update to my last post about BEANOS, formerly the largest second-hand record shop in the world. It's closing ( Read more... )

This morning I demonstrated l33t domestic god skills (for a very minor level of demi-deity) and changed some fuse wire in my fusebox. Go me. The electrical sockets now work again (which is how I am online). Also, I'm going to see whether my local hardware shop sells MCBs (circuit breakers) which I can replace the wire cartridges with. [sigh] Given ( Read more... )