The Auld Shillelagh
Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 This used to be my favourite pub in North London but I haven't been in for a while. I must be getting...
Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 This used to be my favourite pub in North London but I haven't been in for a while. I must be getting...
Maybe this theory needs a bit more work.
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...
While the numbers of Dog People frequenting Clissold Park has grown enormously over the past few years, one of the things that hasn't...
Between two smallish trees in Clissold Park there is a long length of red twine that somebody (conceptual nature artist or mischievous...
Every day my two year old son and I walk through Clissold Park and go up to touch the Football Tree. “Football Tree!” my son will say....
The old bowling green in Clissold Park has recently become a martial arts zone. Of particular interest is the modern hybrid form...
The cherry blossom of Kingsbridge House, on Lordship Road, has gone, blown in the wind towards Seven Sisters Road. Up there amid the...
The daffodils are out in Clissold Park. Squat dogs round and through them. “Kaiser! Butch! Over here!” shouts an angry looking man with...
The Dog People of Clissold Park have been growing in number since the end of the summer. Now they are all over the park, hanging around...
This morning I saw a magpie and, without thinking, saluted it. "Good morning Mr Magpie!" Then another magpie appeared from behind a tree...
Today I’m trying to picture London. It’s now almost 6 months since we left and images are obviously in the process of being moved from...
This afternoon I spotted a can of Kestrel Super K on the route of the lost Hackney Brook. I’ve noticed over the last few months that...
This afternoon I spotted a can of Kestrel Super K on the route of the lost Hackney Brook. I’ve noticed over the last few months that...
As I was flicking through the Stoke Newington OS map from 1868 (it’s a gripping read) I noticed that, north of the avenue and embankment...
Another of the ancient horse chestnuts in the south western sector of Clissold Park, probable remnants of the old Newington Common, has...
More old trees in Clissold Park are being cut down. Some of the gnarled horse chestnut trees in the south west corner have seemingy died...
The little Hawthorne bush that nestles into an eastern corner of Old St Mary’s Church is covered in bright red berries. Beneath it is a...
“Hello Mr Magpie!” I whispered, as I reached the north eastern sector of Clissold Park. Why do I do this? I used to think it was kind of...
Yet another of the old horse chestnut trees in Clissold Park is starting to peg out. On the south side, near the route of the buried New...