My Famous Street Standup Moment
There was a bright chill in the day. I was walking slowly up the hill when I saw one of my neighbours talking to two men in red t-shirts....
There was a bright chill in the day. I was walking slowly up the hill when I saw one of my neighbours talking to two men in red t-shirts....
I’m trudging back from the park, feeling tired and for some reason dejected by the clammy cold breeze that’s whipping off the pavement...
I’ve written before about rain. About how it makes me feel alive. Today the rain was beating down, propelled by cold gusts of wind that...
I’m walking from my car to Tesco to go and buy some chicken dippers… the latest shit food fad in our house – when out of the corner of my...
Today I walk the neighbour’s dog again. On my return leg I am reminded that the rubbish bin at the top of one of the nearby streets has...
My youngest has become very excited at the new portable bouncing playground that’s been installed at the western end of our street. Since...
I’m walking through the park with my eight year old son. He’s asking lots of questions at the moment. The main thrust of all this is that...
Had a great walk out in the rain yesterday morning in Clissold Park, during which I outlined my four point plan (or is it seven?) for...
Yesterday I went out onto Blackstock Road with the specific task of buying a replacement blade for my hacksaw. A nice, simple, job –...
I’m woken from a dream by the sound of birds. It’s a multi-levelled effect, with blackbirds and starlings in the background, the odd...
For years we looked at the crazy modernist building at the end of our street and said "What a fucking dump!" (It's not exactly Nikolaus...
My late neighbour, Edna Crome, seemed to know more about Highbury then anyone I know. She was always telling me stories about some aspect...
Maybe this theory needs a bit more work.
The stationer breathed a sigh of relief today when I went in and brought four colour cartridges for my printer. "Ha – you thought I was...
Sitting at a bus stop on Stoke Newington Church Street I heard a sound both familiar yet strange. In the midst of the normal sounds of...
"Do you sell Quink?" I said to my local stationer. "Do we sell Quink? Of course we sell Quink. That's a strange question." "Well, it's...
I did just over two and a half km on the treadmill in an attempt to recreate that excruciating jog to an appointment or interview on a...
The bloke was in his early 20s and had a stripey t-shirt and a spotty red face. He swaggered out of the King's Head with his dog then...
My six year old son often asks me, when we walk up Canning Road, to tell him about the Viking battle of Blackstock Road. "How do you know...
While the numbers of Dog People frequenting Clissold Park has grown enormously over the past few years, one of the things that hasn't...