Archive for November, 2005

In the first few days of our engagement, my now wife Polly and I started to think about how to combine the two homes we had set up over the course of our years of independence. It quickly became clear that we were going to …

Anyone with a passing interest in literature is by now familiar with the vast array of book blogs on the internet. But some folks remain maddeningly unaware of all of the actual literature being published online. In an effort to cure this ill (and also …

There were numerous sites I could have picked to write about here. Stuff that I’ve been reading for years, day in day out like the brilliant Morning News, the consistently entertaining Coudal Partners, the almost legendary Robot Wisdom, and the old favourites like Kottke and …

Just to let everyone who’s coming to the party tonight, this is your last chance to get your name in for the Great Londonist Birthday Raffle Extravaganza (to give it its official name). If you want to be in with a chance of winning the …

There’s not really much to say about this one, apart from “What the fuck?” According to various reports today the Sun editor Rebekah Wade spent last night in a police cell after being arrested at around 4 in the morning for an alleged assault on …

We’re hearing a couple of stories about very tall buildings in Docklands. First up, the proposed 63 storey Columbus Tower is mired in yet more uncertainty. It’s previously faced problems from City Airport, whose planes would fly close to its top, and Crossrail, whose trains …

It has been noted before that the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is a bit of a disaster, in terms of its design, its usage and generally its existence. Today we have the privilege of confirming its true degree of disaster in terms of …

Let us remind you of what we’ve said of The Sways in the past: A band who in their own words are the musical equivalent of Marmite. Really worth seeing for being utterly different to anything we’ve heard, erm, ever. Which is one way of …

Actually, we’re not sure if there’ll be pizza but there’ll be plenty of food anyway at the Autumn Food Lovers’ Fair taking place in Covent Garden this weekend as a fair old smattering of food producers will be taking part in the fair. For those …

It seems like only the other day we were talking about the plans for the South Bank beach project (well, actually we did mention it on Tuesday), but if you need your memory jogging here’s a quick recap. The Jubilee Gardens area of the South …