tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post114235490442787982..comments2023-11-02T11:09:42.199+00:00Comments on Six's junk thought theorem: Why I love LondonCrispin Heathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03281584363237478027noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1143065489955617342006-03-22T22:11:00.000+00:002006-03-22T22:11:00.000+00:00Hi Six,Hope all is well with you and yours.I absol...Hi Six,<BR/><BR/>Hope all is well with you and yours.<BR/><BR/>I absolutely agree with the philosophy of looking up when you are in towns and cities.<BR/><BR/>I have now lived in Windsor for half of my life, and a few years ago I noticed the beautiful old original upper fronts to the buildings in the High Street areas of the town. They are unchanged, despite different shops coming and going over the years. There are of course the usual eye cathchers in such a lovely town, but I'd missed those upper fronts time and time again.<BR/><BR/>I always look up now.<BR/><BR/>K xKayfer Kettlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08222402191007502911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142546544525691742006-03-16T22:02:00.000+00:002006-03-16T22:02:00.000+00:00Happy everything to you and yours Six.Seriously. I...Happy everything to you and yours Six.<BR/><BR/>Seriously. If you had an address - and no I'm not a stalker - I would have sent something for Louis.<BR/><BR/>We moved out of West London when Alex was a baby. Curiously he's moved back to study. I worry about him but I love it that he chose life in the city where he was born not a provincial backwater (Oxford!).Gavin Corderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761771762755996427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142432006465974552006-03-15T14:13:00.001+00:002006-03-15T14:13:00.001+00:00Excellent post Cris - even if you have put it on t...Excellent post Cris - even if you have put it on the News Baord from time to time. People don't big up london enough in my view. Love it to bits and wherever I go I'm always secretly quite glad when I'm back here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142432006457374002006-03-15T14:13:00.000+00:002006-03-15T14:13:00.000+00:00Excellent post Cris - even if you have put it on t...Excellent post Cris - even if you have put it on the News Baord from time to time. People don't big up london enough in my view. Love it to bits and wherever I go I'm always secretly quite glad when I'm back here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142417657558219262006-03-15T10:14:00.000+00:002006-03-15T10:14:00.000+00:00I lived in Canning Town for the first five years o...I lived in Canning Town for the first five years of my life. I still vaguely remember when my mum used to work saturdays, and my dad used to take me and my brother to market by the Canning Town fly-over; and he'd buy a rabbit and make rabbit stew for us. <BR/><BR/>The we lived in east ham for five years, and that's when I became a West ham fan, as we lived only tens minutes walk from the ground. I still remember the roar from the ground when we beat Newcastle 8-1 during the 85-86 season. Otherwise, East ham was a bit of a dump.<BR/><BR/>Then I spent fourteen years in Ebfield, North London. Nuff said.<BR/><BR/>Six. You brought up the Notting Hill Carnival. I went in 99, and it's definately one of London's best events. Especially when the weather is fine as it was then.flyingfinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828818565594896770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142415386300937562006-03-15T09:36:00.000+00:002006-03-15T09:36:00.000+00:00Six, I got out my battered A-Z and its Parliament ...Six, I got out my battered A-Z and its Parliament Hill that my bench is on. This then reminded me of Kenwood and the daffodils, which is beautiful when the sun is shining and those little yellow heads are bobbing in the breeze. Same can be said for Hampton Court. I lived in Surbition for a short time right by the river and I used to get the ferry over the river (10p I think) and then walk all the way down the tow path to HC. Once there I would walk up the Long Water and then around the gardens. After a refreshing drink in one of the local hostelries, I would then turn around and walk back. It was about 9 miles in total and you never see a car except by the pub. Truly brilliant.<BR/><BR/>I love the scrumptious contradiction of bacon bagels too! It really is the only way to have a bagel though unless you're Jewish of course!<BR/><BR/>Another favourite Vincent Square in Victoria. Football teams from outside London with a London game midweek often use the football field in the square for practice. Many happy hours have been spent on a bench there perving, I mean viewing the admirable talents of the players.<BR/><BR/>The statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.Linda Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10081786621318362216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142414451853235162006-03-15T09:20:00.000+00:002006-03-15T09:20:00.000+00:00I drove up to Euston to pick up my mother in law o...I drove up to Euston to pick up my mother in law on Sunday and had Eben in the back of the car with me. <BR/><BR/>I deliberately took him over Westminster Bridge so that we could have a look at the Palace and as soon as it honed in to view he pointed and shouted 'Big Ben'. He's only ever seen it in books before, so it struck me just how distinctive it really is.Crispin Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281584363237478027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142412655555932872006-03-15T08:50:00.000+00:002006-03-15T08:50:00.000+00:00I haven't been to Cambden market for about 20 year...I haven't been to Cambden market for about 20 years, last time I was there I bought a long Harris Tweed overcoat for 10 quid!...and boy did I look cool...:-)<BR/><BR/>Your 24 is very true. Even the picture on the MB entry page!Span Owshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144861546996033462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142377924998614722006-03-14T23:12:00.000+00:002006-03-14T23:12:00.000+00:00Actually Span you're absolutely right about Barcel...Actually Span you're absolutely right about Barcelona, some of the Gaudi balconies are stunning.Crispin Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281584363237478027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142377837025939422006-03-14T23:10:00.000+00:002006-03-14T23:10:00.000+00:00Span and Finn you can bugger off the South's got s...Span and Finn you can bugger off the South's got soul.Crispin Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281584363237478027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142377750446251722006-03-14T23:09:00.000+00:002006-03-14T23:09:00.000+00:00Mags.Waterloo bridge at anytime is good The view f...Mags.<BR/><BR/>Waterloo bridge at anytime is good <BR/><BR/>The view from the cafe out to Ham and Teddington is as good as Richmond Hill<BR/><BR/>Greenwich astronomy is the other great view of London and I'd agree the dome from there looks extraordinarily otherworldly<BR/><BR/>St Katherine's Dock ditto<BR/><BR/>Columbia Rd flower marker ditto<BR/><BR/>Bacon bagels from a little stall on the Old Kent Road at 4am - sounds fantastic but what an amusing contradiction a bacon bagel is.<BR/><BR/>The Builders Arms in Shoreditch<BR/><BR/>Picnics on Hamstead Heath and a swim in the lido - or the nude bathing<BR/><BR/>London Zoo and Regents Park and especially the penguins - ahhhhh<BR/><BR/>Camden Market - I was going to put that<BR/><BR/>Notting Hill Carnival and getting blasted with a ten skin spliff in full view of members of HM's metropolitan constabulary - How could I forget<BR/><BR/>The Isabella is marvellous at any time of the year i just got a bit carried away by the poetry love.<BR/><BR/>The other thing was, isn't the bench you're referring to on Primrose Hill?Crispin Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03281584363237478027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142377726363748432006-03-14T23:08:00.000+00:002006-03-14T23:08:00.000+00:00Oh the joy just reading all this...yes I was born ...Oh the joy just reading all this...yes I was born and raised (in the suburbs admittedly) but n'er every weekend 'uptown'.<BR/><BR/>Ditto finn re S of the river...hehehe, except have great friends in Kennington and Dulwich.<BR/><BR/>Also...we ALL know why Mags loves Highgate Cemetery!<BR/><BR/>My youth was more live music than 'clubbing' but times change.<BR/><BR/>Funnily enough the exact same is said of Barcelona 'city' i.e. look up.Span Owshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10144861546996033462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142377604605684932006-03-14T23:06:00.000+00:002006-03-14T23:06:00.000+00:00Oh, and I like the museams. There's so many, and t...Oh, and I like the museams. There's so many, and they're all good. I loved visiting them as a child during the holidays.flyingfinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828818565594896770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142374232289005722006-03-14T22:10:00.000+00:002006-03-14T22:10:00.000+00:00I agree Finn, there is always something to do. Lon...I agree Finn, there is always something to do. London is a wonderful city and greatly underestimated by many people both who live there and those that don't and have never been there because they believe all that rubbish about London being dirty and smelly.<BR/><BR/>I disagree Six with the best time to visit the Isabella. Now is good for seeing all the wonderful heathers and bulbs and about two months down the line when all the azalias and rhodedendrans (sp?) are in bloom. Many happy hours have spent in there.<BR/><BR/>I also love that bench on Hamstead Heath that features in every film set in London where you get the most fantastic view in the whole of London.<BR/><BR/>I love the feel of the city, the people, who are not in the least bit unfriendly merely busy, the mixing and fusing of virtually every nationality in the world, mostly in peace and realtive harmony.<BR/><BR/>My old manor, Churchfield Road in W3 is brilliant for being able to eat from every continent in just one street. Apparently it's gone a bit middle class since I left there but I can't see the road and the surrounding area ever losing its vitality and energy.<BR/><BR/>Other places I love:<BR/>Highgate cemetery<BR/><BR/>St James's Park (but not in summer when I'm tying to eat my lunch but American tourists keep asking me where the palace is!)<BR/><BR/>The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green<BR/><BR/>The Museum of London and the London Wall Walk<BR/><BR/>Waterloo bridge at sunset<BR/><BR/>Ravenscourt Park in Hammersmith<BR/><BR/>Richmond Hill and the view down to the river<BR/><BR/>The way you can shake hands with the pilots when sitting in a garden in Heston<BR/><BR/>The Gunnersbury Triangle, a real wilderness in urban land<BR/><BR/>The Dome<BR/><BR/>Standing on the Greenwich Meridian...oh those tourist type photographs!<BR/><BR/>St Katherine's Dock<BR/><BR/>Columbia Rd flower marker<BR/><BR/>Bacon bagels from a little stall on the Old Kent Road at 4am<BR/><BR/>The gothic pile that is the Royal Courts of Justice<BR/><BR/>Those lovely old pubs in the little windy alleyways of the city and in particular EC4 such as the Old Cheese<BR/><BR/>Picnics on Hamstead Heath and a swim in the lido<BR/><BR/>London Zoo and Regents Park and especially the penguins<BR/><BR/>Camden Market<BR/><BR/>Notting Hill Carnival and getting blasted with a ten skin spliff in full view of members of HM's metropolitan constabulary<BR/><BR/><BR/>The canals<BR/><BR/>The tube (yup I know I'm mad)<BR/><BR/>That bloody great big wheel<BR/><BR/>I gosh, I miss London sooooooo much.Linda Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10081786621318362216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17804801.post-1142371053457343652006-03-14T21:17:00.000+00:002006-03-14T21:17:00.000+00:00I always thought London's best point is that there...I always thought London's best point is that there is always something to do. The worst is that half south of the river.;-)flyingfinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828818565594896770noreply@blogger.com