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Category Archives: London

The Maltese Pigeon

September 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

What’s the difference between an old bus stop and a lobster with a boob job?

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London

Am I more than you bargained for yet?

September 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

It’s beautifully, flamboyantly cliché. Ricky Martin has a house on one of the wide, green-canopied avenues. His music plays here more than is merited.

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London, travel

Bath time with strangers!

September 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

A catch up entry from March 2017, lost between the flimsy pages of my Google Inbox and iPhone notes.

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London, travel

Bienvenido a Miami

May 30, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

Ooh, pretty coastline!

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London

Took the fireworks and the vanity, the circuit board and the city streets.

May 1, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

In which NYC and I do Round III.

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London

Cronut-town

April 30, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

And now I’m on a plane to New York. I have 60 hours in New York City: it feels like a challenge. I’ve never liked this city. However, I’m fairly certain that that’s my fault, not its.

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London, Mid-air thoughts, travel

I’ve held dreams of Boston all my life

April 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

It’s all I can do not to fall asleep in my Sam Adams, raw clams and marshmallows.

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London, travel

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one

April 15, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

The London dark gnawed at me.

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London, Mid-air thoughts, travel

What do you dream of on the West Coast when my head is aching in GMT?

January 18, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

In which we road trip and there are too many characters: the Cub, Badger, Bunny, Bunky, Powerjam, brother, sister, as yet un-nicknamed cousin, Nakiska, Flipper and friends. And, unsurprisingly, too much drinking.

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London, travel

The boots with the furrrr

January 14, 2017by Alex Leave a comment

“It’s aprés!” I laugh.

“It’s what?”

“You’ve never…? Oh wow.”

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London, travel

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You seem to like these ones best

  • Let’s float, lets glide
  • Scorpion tornados.
  • There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
  • What intoxicating vanity
  • The Isle Is full Of Noises.

Thought for the week

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw

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