It’s interesting that when you hear people talking about the war (the Second World War, not the current ones) something they often mention is the hardship of rationing. When did we start seeing rationing as a bad thing? My grandma thought wartime rationing was great. Bringing up five kids, with her […]
Big Smoke celebrates its first week today and we hope you’ve enjoyed it so far. We’re very happy with it so far and from the feedback we’re getting you like the look, you like the idea and you’ve really appreciated what we’ve written. Although we only ‘soft launched’ the site […]
A short animation, shot in real time involving, yes, bike riding!
I’m quite intrigued by this style of book review by Bibliophile books, you certainly get a browsing in the bookshop experience from it… Looks like a nice Christmas present – I just need to work out who for! Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis by Bruce Marshall
Just checked out ‘Bloomsbury Occupy‘ the latest franchise in the global Occupy brand. Sadly the building was guarded by a highly trained SAS style man in a yellow jacket (cunningly disguised as a minimum wage worker hoping for the easiest shift possible). I had hoped to pop in for a […]
Without looking it up how many of London’s 24 female MPs can you name? To give you some clues there are 16 Labour, 6 Tories and 2 Liberal Democrats. I think this is genuinely impossible to know them all, I managed ten. An extra pat on the back if you […]
Now this is how you make a smoothy, and work up your appetite first.
And here we see the joys that is cycling in London.
As we right the York Way area near Kings Cross has been blocked off due to a chemical spill (or according to some a lorry laden with acid). The spill is causing some delays as well as causing curious journos to hang to of the Guardian building’s windows (Kings Place) […]
The up coming by-election in Feltham and Heston caused by the tragic death of Alan Keen, who’d served the constituency since 1992, is unlikely to cause any political upsets. With a majority of over four and a half thousand and Labour up in the polls it’s extremely unlikely Labour will lose […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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