Yesterday’s walk from Islington to Limehouse along the Regent’s Canal. I can think of worse places to live in London.
pesosReally interesting essay from Tom Armitage, about getting on his bike and getting on. The thrill of those first long rides takes me right back to my first London to Brighton and the sheer unalloyed joy of whooshing down into the town.
Yesterday’s walk from Islington to Limehouse along the Regent’s Canal. I can think of worse places to live in London.
pesosStruck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens. I haven’t been here for ages, so I don’t know the general policy, but do London parks go in for reduced mowing and managed wilding at all?
pesosStruck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens. I haven’t been here for ages, so I don’t know the general policy, but do London parks go in for reduced mowing and managed wilding at all?
pesosIn tomorrow's episode, the story behind this earlyish inforgraphic.
How did the Brits become a nation of tea drinkers?
“Comparative Consumption,” Sir James Buckingham, A Few Facts about Indian Tea and How to Brew It (London: Indian Tea Association, 1910, p. 4. British Library shelf mark 07076.48 (4).
pesos"Meat traders came out in support of vegan activists who occupied Smithfield Market in London last night."
Happy to take your word for it, as The Times won't let me read without registering.
I read it, I note that I am unsurprised, and I move on. That is what is wrong with me.