Archive for March, 2007

Part 7 As usual, we want to know where in London this memorial can be found, and who the real-life Father Jack was. Arse. Gurls. Feck. etc.

Two bits of streetart for the price of one. Not that we’re paying anything, mind. That’s the beauty of this stuff. Free art. And you never know when or where you’ll encounter it. Actually, to shift direction yet again, you can be fairly certain of …

This week – Africans prove that not all the French are cheese eating surrender monkeys (Days Of Glory) and Mr Bean goes on holiday to the South of France (Mr Bean’s Holiday). This week’s Friday Film News has a definite French theme. As a result …

Maybe because it is Friday afternoon and we swtiched off the hard working part of our brains (the Captain’s Log for this particular Londonista has been showing “Offline” since Wednesday lunch time) but we thought we would share this WTF gem with you all as …

Put your hand up if you like cartoons. Put your hand up if you experience a surge of happy childhood memories whenever you hear the famous Looney Tunes intro music. Put your hand up if you felt particularly cool and sophisticated while watching a Japanese …

Every so often we meet up with people who are doing things a little bit out of the ordinary for a little chinwag. This time round meet Helen who’s rapidly gaining status somewhere you’d probably not expect to find anyone born after the ’50s anywhere …

Ross got in contact with us to let us know that the registration deadline for the UK Dodgeball Championships (whole teams only) had been extended until Friday. While we had him around we thought we’d ask him a few questions about his adventure sports club, …

Londonist aged 8: What place has the most dogs? Exasperated parent: I don’t know, what place has the most dogs? Londonist aged 8: Barking! Hilarious. And, strangely, true. Barking and Dagenham Council had 8,579 dog owners for 75,108 households, giving it an average of 11.42% …

Vintage Banksy on Brick Lane, last summer and (inset) a few days ago. Spot the difference? Someone’s gone and half-inched his number. The BBC quote regular passer-by John Brophy: Every time I walk past it there is always someone taking photos of it. Everyone knows …

Tessa Jowell, like any avid gambler, feverishly hedged her bets with the House of Lords on Wednesday in efforts to push through her plans for a series of ‘supercasinos’ in Britain. Peers voted 123-120 against the measure that evening, despite Jowell’s last-ditch attempts at swaying …