Another reblog from A London Inheritance featuring my area of London. This one is especially close to home because not only do I live nearby, I worked with printers in the area, an earthy crowd forever ready with a practical joke. One of them once told me that the Caribbean island of Sans Serif was … Continue reading Sans Walk, a Fenian Outrage and the Edge of London
Category: WRITING
Flashback: This week last year
One year ago...
Diary: Week 46, 2020
"Trump is out there, a wounded animal with a disturbing glint in his eye"
Diary snapshot: Donald Trump
Diary: Week 45, 2020
"I now have a collection of 16 rubber ferrules in various styles and sizes"
Diary: October 2020
Warning: 7,000 words. Might require a pot of tea, and biscuits.
Backyard holidays: Portugal
Portugal isn't exactly just round the corner, but the notes I made when on holiday there in 2017 are in a drawer in my bedroom...
Flashback: This week last year
My Diary for this week last year tells me that I was…
Diary: 5-7 November
The US has a new president... finally
Backyard holidays: World tour in stamps
I don't think this dusty miniature volume was Willie's philatelic pride and joy
Diary snapshot: Printer problems
Artwork Archive: Stanley Cohen House
Backyard holidays: Whitecross Street, London EC1
This was once the workplace of women known as prostitutes
Diary: 1-4 November
SUNDAY In Canada there's been a new twist on Halloween as an occasion not to remember the dead but to build on the body count. # It would be nice to think the new Lockdown announced by the PM last night a had some kind of strategy behind it. If he'd said, "Heads up. The … Continue reading Diary: 1-4 November
Diary snapshot: Domestic violence
Diary snapshot: Liverpool
Diary snapshot: Dominic Cummings
The outlook is cloudy
Week 44…
The countdown to CoronaChristmas starts now
Diary snapshot: Russian violinist
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Diary snapshot: Crony Conservatives
Doing nicely in the virus crisis
Billy's Scrapbook 