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Just about enough snow overnight to adjust the plans this morning. The usual combination of people and things in the wrong place. That ...

A view from the top deck of the routemaster bus today. This would be the 'going to' picture rather than the 'coming back from...

It's supposed to be back to normal this week, with full commuter trains, busy tubes and plenty of traffic jams. I'm slightly suspic...

We welcomed the New Year from neo-futuristic Shard, which is the tall spiky building in Central London. It's still the tallest building...

Another weekend activity involved obtaining emergency swimwear...so that we could use the fancy spa at the Corinthia, obviously. We tripp...

The cab driver looked slightly quizzical. "You know what it's like?" We said we did. "Only some people really like...

I decided to try to get a bit ahead on that novel writing month thing because of work next week. It's made the last couple of days a l...

I know, it looks like a ready made plot line, but it's not the one for me this year. I've decided to hang in there with the deser...

We'd sort of agreed that this would be a quiet, stay at home kind of weekend rather than gadding about. It's probably at least 6-7...

We found ourselves in the Weimar Republic on Thursday evening. Okay, it wasn’t Berlin, we were in Bromley, having traversed about a hundred...

I suppose there comes a point when I need to post another straightforward London picture. The type with a bus and a taxi in it. A sort of...

I mentioned the pink and blue makeover for London in an earlier post and here's a quick example of it. Its mainly the new signage th...

London's preparations for the various upcoming events continue. Yesterday I was around Waterloo and noticed quite a few people in demo...

It's the third London Skyride I've cycled, each year with a slightly different route. This time I arrived quite early (before the o...

I took some books away last week, including one recommended by fellow blogger Nikki-ann. Well, actually Nikki-ann wrote about the second ...

We found ourselves in St James at Quaglino's. There's a few traditional London haunts that one goes back to like le Gavroche any tim...

After my Isle of Wight post referencing Sienna Miller at Steephill Cove, the least we could do was return the favour and visit her in her cu...

What a difference a day makes. The signs of last week's London festivities have rapidly moved, as have the Press who have moved to th...

I drove to the office this morning, expecting the roads to be clear with everyone taking extra days by way of an extended break between Eas...

We'll be away whilst the Royal Wedding is taking place. We're joining some friends on a boat which will mean we are in a minority...