Archive for October, 2006

There’s a chill in the air and the nights are getting longer but though it is tempting to stay indoors, with pipe and slippers (perhaps a slumbering medium-sized dog and roaring log fire too), to wait patiently until spring brings back some colour to the …

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 13. Pilgrim Street Where? That set of steps you see leads up from New Bridge Street into a small lane known as Pilgrim Street. The view from the other end is equally impressive, with the wedding-cake …

West Bromwich Albion 0 Arsenal 2 The Hawthorns League Cup Third Round Tuesday 24th October 2006 Last week the reserves, this week the “A” team. Still not quite the real thing, but with noticeably more experience on show than the official second string, Arsenal’s League …

beatdrifter‘s Mind The Gap is a Photo of the Day not aimed at the readership (who are reminded of that particular danger more than enough) but to the idiot on this end of the screen who obviously needs a reminder to watch his html. Apologies …

Londonist went to see Caroline, or Change at the National Theatre — Happy 30th N.T.! — on Monday night and was slightly less entranced than the rest of the London critics. If it’s a rave you seek, you can find plenty over at What’s On …

Visitors to St James’s Park last week may have happened across this a rather strange wildlife tussle – a pelican picking up and swallowing a pigeon. Cathal McNaughton, a photographer who captured the incident, described the event, The pelican was on the towpath preening itself, …

London (Hampstead to be exact) is set to become face transplant central. Drive a ‘gas guzzler’? Then expect to pay more to park the thing. There was a woman on the news today complaining about this, who insisted she need a 4X4 because she had …

For people who love taking pictures, people who like taking pictures of London, people who like taking pictures of London in a very specific time frame, people who like a challenge and don’t mind a bit of running around, people who like taking pictures, of …

Event of the Week Battle of Ideas at the Royal College of Art, all weekend The Battle of Ideas is, according to their website, ‘an annual festival of social, political, scientific, academic and cultural discussion‘. In other, more juvenile words, it’s a mass debate. And …

There are delays at Waterloo this morning following the ‘partial derailment’ at the station yesterday evening. The last two carriages of a South West Trains service from Dorking came off the tracks as it entered Platform 2 at the station at around 6:30pm. Thankfully the …