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Went to the optician the other day, after losing yet another pair of glasses in a messing-about-with-the-kids incident. "Your eyesight...
Went to the optician the other day, after losing yet another pair of glasses in a messing-about-with-the-kids incident. "Your eyesight...
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...
The spring sky holds many delights. Mercury can be viewed high in the sky above Orion (and to the left of McDermotts pub). The lighthouse...
While the numbers of Dog People frequenting Clissold Park has grown enormously over the past few years, one of the things that hasn't...
At the end of our road there is a bike chained to a lamp post. Over the last two or three months the bike has slowly been stripped of...
On Riversdale Road today, on the same part of the road that was the other day covered in rubbish, one of my neighbours was trying to put...
My kids got a yellow plastic boomerang thing a few weeks ago. It actually looks more like a propellor than a boomerang but, if you throw...
What’s best? The Irish long handled shovel or the English short handled spade? The short handled spade also has a hand grip at the end...
We now have a rat. It’s part of the Lurraga wildlife park experience. Rats in London are evil disease-spreaders but this rat seems like...
The cows in our field are always trying to escape. There are a couple of ringleaders who always set the others off. There are only eight...
We have new tarmac. The tarmac comes right up to the front of the house. It is the Irish rural look. A team of tarmac people swarmed...
Did I miss Fisheries Awareness Week? We’d cut out a snippet of news from the Clare Champion, then filed it away under Things to Do. But...
A few weeks ago there were strange sounds coming from the direction of Cahamaccrusheen (Cathair mhic croisin), about half a mile down the...
Yesterday morning the lid of the compost bin disappeared. The big plank of wood that keeps it in place was lying on the ground next to...
In my post-pub dreams the old deserted tin box factory on Blackstock Road was going to be turned into something exciting. Any day now....
On days like this when I’m really busy it’s essential that, when popping out on errands, I manage to avoid the sailor. Whenever I bump...
Coinciding with a massive hangover, the Hackney Brook appears to have resurfaced on Blackstock Road, just south of the Arsenal Tavern....
The New River has returned. I feel a bit confused. Part of me wants to leap up and down with unrestrained joy, splashing about in the...
A Hackney Brook walk around to the new Arsenal stadium to gawp at some concrete and cranes then a quick sketching session (still can’t...