Since 2006, for a few days over a couple of weeks every October, I am booked to tutor in radio acting at Mountview drama school (its actual name of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts sounds like where one of the racier characters in a Barbara Pym novel might work). High up in north London, situated [...]
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Almost at Arnos Grove a small slice of heaven
Posted in Shopping, Working, tagged fishmongers, kitchenwares, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, shopping centre, Wood Green on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Evangelical Christianity, nail salons, tripe … and chocolate
Posted in Going out to eat, Shopping, Things I have eaten, Uncategorized, tagged bellenden road peckham, dreaming, george osborne, gordon brown, melange chocolate, paris on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some nights I can’t wait to be over. Trapped on a treadmill, my subconscious seems intent on churning out exhaustingly busy but yet extravagantly dull dreams. One after another they come. Last night, I dreamt I was in the humiliating position of working as Little Georgie Osborne’s deputy. My advice to him was unswerving, “have [...]
London Postcode SE22
Posted in Shopping, tagged Cath Kidston, East Dulwich, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Lordship Lane, Mr Tambourine Man, Northcross Road on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, East Dulwich… How giddy am I in being able to choose from more than a dozen of varieties of RHS-grown apples in the greengrocer’s whilst being on first-name terms with the proprietor; What pleasure I take in casually stroking the shabby-but-chic 1950s retro furniture as I make my way to the free range hog-roast [...]
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