Yesterday’s walk from Islington to Limehouse along the Regent’s Canal. I can think of worse places to live in London.
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A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Movie might, My Generation, with Michael Caine. Excellent documentary about London in the 1960s. Loads of nostalgia. What a time and place to be growing up in.
Cracking piece from Max Walker in Vittles, on the Devon Split, as a vehicle for the industrialisation of London's milk supply. I've never tasted one, but I kept thinking, which came first, the Split or the Marritozzo. Still none the wiser.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/cream-is-thicker-than-blood-the-rise?r=1ahjl&utm_campaig...
Matt Webb refuses to normalise milk from cows, and has some fun observations about how to specify the "milk" in his flat whites and regional variations in London. I don't take any "milk" in most of the coffee I drink, so not an issue for me.
Infovore » This is your brain on wheels
Really 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.
Struck on my morning walk by this tiny unmoved strip in Whitehall Gardens
Struck 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
Struck 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?
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In tomorrow's episode, the story behind this earlyish inforgraphic.
In 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.
Squalid London - Craig Murray
I read it, I note that I am unsurprised, and I move on. That is what is wrong with me.
What with the London and Dublin podcast festivals, I reckon #hearsay2017 should be a blast. @thisheadstuff @hearsayfestival