Hello! I went to Reykjavík and it was awesome, and I will get around to writing about it eventually! If you like photos, you can see some hereMeanwhile, here are some nice things that happened this weekend (just to remind me that London is not so bad really ( Read more... )

Hope everyone is OK and not too freaked out about London going weird. I find it very hard to believe that anything bad ever really happens, so it is very strange to see the evidence - gosh Clapham Junction was a mess when I walked through this morning, and Indiejob's warehouse in Enfield has burned down with all our stock in it. Blimey...

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Hooray, home already! If this weather keeps up I'm sure I'll get steadily grumpier this week, but right now I'm excited to be home before 6 and cheerful after my excellent weekend.

On Saturday I went over to Ladbroke Grove to meet drummygirl and, appropriately enough, play drums. We tagged along with pollitesss to a samba drum class in a sports centre under the ( Read more... )

miss_newham: Her surname's Ashton, like Ashton Kutchner.
hoshuteki: Or Ron Asheton of The Stooges.
miss_newham: Really? The only one of The Stooges I can name is Chico. Um, I mean Curly. Oh bugger.

I really should stop going away from London because the personal raincloud that descends when I come back is always grey and gloomy. It might be time to change my life around a ( Read more... )

This morning I stood outside a sixth form college in lovely pretty Blackheath doing a school traffic survey. Only there wasn't that much traffic so I watched a bunch of squirrels chasing each other up and down a tree for ages, and a man painting a roof, and a cat wandering around and even a snail climbing a tree. Under normal circumstances I ( Read more... )

I just saw about 30 horses trotting up Oxford St!

Edit - This is true, not something I dreamt while oversleeping! And later on I saw Michael Buerk getting off the tube at Marble Arch.

I've just realised that Camden depresses the hell out of me. I may well not go there again ( Read more... )

An investigation by The Times and Newham's foremost literary sleuth has unearthed evidence that the blog of so-called miss_newham may be a fake. Detective Percy Carruthers said "My suspicions were aroused by the high level of stupidity in so-called miss_newham's journal entries. I found it impossible to believe that someone in her late twenties, who purports to have ( Read more... )

I've just been teaching sign language to Mike and Fabulous Falmouth Vince over MSN. Bizarrely, it seems to be working, though I suppose investment in a webcam would give optimum results. But then I'd have to buy a webcam ( Read more... )

I know, I'm whinging again, but at least I didn't have the computer to hand at 7 am when Rob ("Hi... Jo...") informed me that I would be back on the 25 bus for the next five weeks, even on my birthday! But I will deal with it. I won't be able to get down to Falmouth for a while now (and what will become of the laundry in the meantime? Heavens, it ( Read more... )