London

Bye bye London, Hello Manchester

August 19, 2008, 1:47 pm

If you follow my Twitter stream, you’ll know that over the last month or so, I’ve been preparing to leave London, and my job as a Web Producer the Science Museum, to move up north to Manchester, where I’ll shortly be starting as an Experience Designer for Rattle Reseach. Well, now that I’ve actually done [...]

London Low Emission Zone starts

February 4, 2008, 8:59 pm

Today marks the start of the London’s Low Emission Zone. This basically means that, within the zone, which pretty much encompasses the whole of Greater London administrative area, lorries and Heavy Goods Vehicles have got to meet certain standards for minimising exhaust pollution (mostly concerning NOx – Nitrogen Oxides – and ‘particulate matter‘). Lorries that [...]

More flat-hunting

May 1, 2007, 9:56 pm

After a month or so of spending every weekend, and a good deal of weekday evenings, looking for a new flat, to buy, in the Crystal Palace area, today I think I finally found one that I actually would like to live in! Of course, it’s still early days, and all manner of things could [...]

Notes from the Horniman Museum

February 5, 2007, 12:13 am

Went to the Horniman Museum yesterday, seeing as it’s just on my doorstep in South London. The museum staffer in me picked up on a few things, but I also enjoyed it as just a visitor too. I jotted down a few notes when I got back, which I’ve shared below for anyone interested. General [...]

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Where will the super-casino be?

January 30, 2007, 12:03 am

The super-casino contenders. Please let it be Blackpool, and not London! Update: Surprise decision just in: Manchester has won the licence.

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Classical Music at Brixton Station

January 8, 2007, 9:02 am

Here’s a question for the London tube bloggers out there – Diamond Geezer and Annie Mole, I’m looking at you. Why is there always classical music playing at Brixton tube station?

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Today and tomorrow are the last two days in which you can lend your favourite toy to the Science Museum, where it will sit on display in an exhibition open until the end of January. National museums, such as the Science Museum, have strict rules about object acquisitions, and so can rarely accept donated objects, [...]

Re-nationalisation of the railways

December 5, 2006, 10:10 pm

The privatisation of the railways is one of the worst legacies of the Tory government. Whilst the railways are, in some metrics, improving and expanding, this is only due to increased public investment, long overdue after decades of neglect. I remember quizzing our local New Labour MP Stephen Timms during a session at school, asking [...]

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Exhibitions Around Town: December 2006

November 30, 2006, 11:44 pm

This is the first of a possible series of monthly posts summing up the best and most interesting exhibitions on in London. For December 2006, there are plenty of things worth checking out, in between all the Christmas partying and shopping. The Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington, is currently pushing its Da Vinci exhibition [...]

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