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_nick_

why I like camden

Feb 12, 2006 16:29

Sunday afternoon in Camden Lock, pouring rain, stalls cooking weird pots of bubbling ethnic stuff, people huddled under tarpaulins, canal clogged with discarded litter. Days like this, Camden has a strangely post-apocalyptic urban shanty town vibe about it. One of the stalls pumps out driving, throbbing dub beat and eerie melancholy piping melody ( Read more... )

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mr_targ February 12 2006, 16:58:39 UTC

Dude, I've *just* woken up... 7am K & smoke haze... trapped in 7 Sisters by a suicide on the tube... Will brave the busses a little later. Shall we feast this evening? Ideas?

_nick_ February 12 2006, 17:03:49 UTC

re. suicide on the tube: those inconsiderate bastards!

yes yes, am up for feasting this evening. Hazel is getting here round about 7 and bringing random things for ready-steady-cook, can you get here for then? I will want to eat pretty sharpish after that, I have eaten nothing today.

greeba February 12 2006, 17:21:48 UTC

The ol' 'due to a passenger action', eh? Bad luck.

jonnytuna February 12 2006, 18:06:43 UTC

This is indeed a damn cool city to live in.

niknar February 13 2006, 13:40:31 UTC

i too had an unexpected 'ooo, isnt camden pretty' moment this weekend. i had to walk down the canal to primrose hill at about 9.30 saturday night by myself. instead of getting brutally raped by aids-infested crack-addicted thugs, beaten into an amrophous bloody pulp and then thrown into the cold, dirty waters to drown, i enjoyed a lovely little promenade, complete with pleasantly atmospheric purple and blue under-bridge lighting.