At a friends Garden BBQ in Balham. A 'meeting my old friends other halves' party. Reminding me I don't have one. An other half that is. KMT.
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I'm at The Avalon (16 Balham Hill, London). http://4sq.com/7Qa5nn
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I'm at Clapham south underground (Balham hill, London) w/ 3 others. http://4sq.com/9pdZ21
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still don't know where@whatestate is..@MarcusIde in Balham Hill,@bradleyvast watching #xfactor,Fonte..cooking in camden & Vino tasting;-)..
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Sunday: sunny intervals, Max Temp: 22°C (72°F), Min Temp: 14°C (57°F)
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Max Temp: 22°C (72°F), Min Temp: 14°C (57°F), Wind Direction: ESE, Wind Speed: 10mph, Visibility: moderate, Pressure: 1020mb, Humidity: 47%, UV risk: moderate, Pollution: low, Sunrise: 06:19BST, Sunset: 19:37BSTMonday: light rain, Max Temp: 21°C (70°F), Min Temp: 14°C (57°F)
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Max Temp: 21°C (70°F), Min Temp: 14°C (57°F), Wind Direction: ESE, Wind Speed: 14mph, Visibility: poor, Pressure: 1009mb, Humidity: 52%, UV risk: low, Pollution: low, Sunrise: 06:21BST, Sunset: 19:34BSTTuesday: heavy rain, Max Temp: 18°C (64°F), Min Temp: 11°C (52°F)
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Max Temp: 18°C (64°F), Min Temp: 11°C (52°F), Wind Direction: ESE, Wind Speed: 9mph, Visibility: poor, Pressure: 1001mb, Humidity: 58%, UV risk: low, Pollution: low, Sunrise: 06:22BST, Sunset: 19:32BSTWaiting for the Dorking train (@ Balham Station) http://4sq.com/4MX1Hv
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A new life skill this year? - Balham People
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A new life skill this year? Balham People One of them being Chestnut Grove in Balham. There too, the range of courses is tantalising. What about Do***entary Filmmaking. A 5 week intensive evening ... |
Bridge bolts
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sixth land posted a photo:
95% of Balham Women opt for a Brazillian! - Balham People
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95% of Balham Women opt for a Brazillian! Balham People By aloquifique | Saturday, September 04, 2010, 14:29 If there's one thing you can say about Balham, it's that it's got the chill factor! ... |
Will Self headlines literary festival
From: wandsworth council
Novelist Will Self will be talking about his new book 'Walking to Hollywood' as part of this year's SW11 Literary Festival.Been Away
From: davblog
It's over a month since I've posted anything here. Sorry about that. For the first half of August I was in Italy. The first week, I was speaking at a conference in Pisa and after that we spent a few days in Rome and Venice. I took more than a few photos and they're slowly making their way onto my Flickr page. They should all be up there in a week or so (although, having said that, I still haven't sorted out the photos from last year's holiday in the Baltic).
Rather pleased with the way this photo of the Colosseum came out. But given a half-decent camera, an ancient monument and the Italian flair for lighting there probably wasn't much that could go wrong.
Not quite sure what happened to the rest of August though...
Eid pardon sought by Qurashi - Your Local Guardian
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Eid pardon sought by Qurashi Your Local Guardian A campaign has been launched to free a Balham entrepreneur who was jailed in Dubai over bounced cheques. Friends and family are calling ... |
Recruitment help for local employers
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Wandsworth Council has launched a new job brokerage service offering local employers free access to a selection of pre-screened and motivated candidates.Apply for arts cash
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Local artists have until Monday 6 September to complete their applications for an arts grant from Wandsworth Council.Boris Johnson celebrates opening of Wandsworth Museum - This is Local London
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Boris Johnson celebrates opening of Wandsworth Museum This is Local London The re-opening is thanks to new funds put up by the Balham-based Hintze Family Charitable Foundation, led by the philanthropist, Michael Hintze. ... |
Milk Thistles
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drewleavy posted a photo:
Milk Thistles in Tooting Bec Common sending out their seeds. Apart from the crop, unadulterated from the DNG straight from the Leica M9. Lens is the CV 35mm F1.7 Ultron.
Get Creative in Balham - Prfire (press release)
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Get Creative in Balham Prfire (press release) Saturday 11th September 2010 from 1 4pm in the convivial surroundings of the Balham Bowls Club, Ramsden Rd, SW12 8QX. By the end of the session you will ... |
New Wandsworth Museum opens
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Council leader Edward Lister was joined by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt at the official opening of the new Wandsworth Museum today (Wednesday).Wandering
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Nicholas Lativy posted a photo:
"And in the midst of all this, made drowsy by my wanderings, I drift out into the street, like a leaf. The gentlest of winds has swept me up from the ground and I wander, like the very close of twilight, through whatever the landscape presents me. My eyelids grow heavy, my feet drag. Because I'm walking I would like to sleep. I keep my mouth pressed tight shut as if to seal my lips. I am the shipwreck of my own wanderings.
No, I didn't sleep, but I'm better when I haven't slept and can't sleep. I am more truly myself in this random eternity, symbolic of the half-souled state in which I live deluding myself. Someone looks at me as if they knew me or thought they knew me. With painful eyes I look back at them; I don't want to know about the world out there.
All I feel is tired, tired, utterly tired!" -- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
Sharmon
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drewleavy posted a photo:
Having a cocktail at Tacuba in Balham. Ooof!
Jena and the Giant Cupcake
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drewleavy posted a photo:
Jena's amazing birthday cupcake. She took quite a lot home.
Spam
From: wandsworth witterings
looks like I have to activate the comment moderation because of all these mystery Chinese spam comments. I mean, I know I'm desperate for comments, but even I have some standards!While on holiday I watched:
Despicable Me - some good jokes, surprisingly French flavour
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - not entirely execrable
Inception - basically an international heist movie, but with some pretentious what-is-reality mumbo-jumbo thrown in. Tom Hardy is a hunk!
The Jade and the Pearl - extremely low budget, started off very badly, but then became surprisingly romantic and touching - basically a rom-com Cantonese Tristan & Isolde if you can imagine such a thing with two extremely good-looking leads. I don't know why kings ever send their daughters off to be married for political purposes, while being escorted by the hunkiest most heroic general in their army.
And read:
Darkmans - had some ambition and interesting ideas, but obscured by intensely irritating writing style
Discovery of France - the French were basically half-human savages till about 150 years ago! That's the last time I let any French person lecture me on civilisation! Although there was an extremely good-looking snake-hipped young quant (all our quants seem to be French)having a conversation down by the photocopier this evening.
The Northern Clemency - somehow manages to make the extremely dull lives of a few families amazingly interesting, but falters in the home straight, when he seems to relax the iron-hard control he's exercised up till then, with parlous results for the ending
Every day at work I wonder how much more I can stand.
39 Steps
From: wandsworth witterings
Just finished watching this on i-Player - the Rupert Penry-Jones version. Drool.Weekend at last. Must do some weeding. Also there's a dead blackbird in our front garden.
Have finally got round to printing out the last draft of the book, preparatory to sending it off to Cornerstones to see if they'll help me get an agent. Bracing myself for inevitable rejection by making alternative plans. SCBWI Agents' Party in September, plus crawling up the Authonomy ranks. Maybe I should re-start working on Charlie. That should get my mind off it. There are always more stories to tell when you're an inveterate romantic!
Dentists | London Dental Practice Balham Clapham Tooting
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PENNIE SPENDS A POUND
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Cross Countryman
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There's nothing like a late-night ride on a CrossCountry train to make you feel that life ain't worth living.
Having dug out one's reserved seat from beneath piles of apocalyptic debris (mine was Window Seat 28, under the upturned fruit salad with fork), the weary traveller can sit back and sink his feet into a carpet of plastic bottles, almost-empty sandwich packets and/or, in my case, an upset packet of Skittles which I've unwittingly cleared up and taken home on my soles, thankyou.
Having excavted sufficiently to adopt the seated position, one can then begin to appreciate all the little frustrations of the Voyager train: the vibration; the window pillar which obscures the view from every third seat; the overwhelming smell of sewage in the vestibule; and crucially for a train which by its very nature does "cross the country", the lack of buffet. It makes you wonder where all the litter comes from? Do people bring it with them?
But just as you're ready to end it all, to pick up the phone and say your final goodbyes (at full volume in the Quiet Zone, naturally), CrossCountry throw you a lifeline. Of course! - there's absolutely no chance of getting a signal on one of their trains...
Not even a suicide signal.
Curious as to why the many networks (even 3) manage to penetrate everybody else's trains, I posted a note on a CrossCountry forum begging this question. Apparently it could be to do with the film that's applied to the windows to insulate carriages from external temperatures (that would be great, if only the air-con would do the same); it's apparently the same film applied to the windows of MI5 premises to prevent spies from snooping on their telecommunications, because... it blocks mobile signal.
I know not if it's true. I was trying to verify it using 63336 while the door was open at Exeter St Davids, but lost signal before I could get a reply.
So what's the reason behind the litter? I suppose we could throw CrossCountry a bone and blame the internal landfill of late night trains on the people who create it. Personally, I would struggle to make any area as untidy as tonight's train, even if I had all day to go at it; so the passengers who did it are certainly not without blame.
On the other hand, filthy beasts as we are, litter is an operational issue of our time, and other express train operators seem to cope with it much better. I rarely see a First Great Western set that's anything other than spotless, no matter what hour of the day or night. They employ cleaners who board the train at intervals along the journey, and clear up any surplus copies of "Men's Muscle" which, for obvious reasons, may get left behind...
We must conclude, therefore, that CrossCountry is just one big pile of rubbish, spilling out of its own bin, and getting in the way of an otherwise lovely weekend.
At least the revenue staff are diligent.
"You shouldn't really be using that on the train", said the conductor, pointing to my camera as I recorded the carnage around me. When you see the state of his train, you can imagine why he was concerned. He probably thought I was going to strangle myself with the strap.
FILM- SEX AND THE CITY 2
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The ‘perfect’ lives of the four New York friends are still proving troublesome, so when they’re offered a luxury holiday in Abu Dhabi, they jump at the chance. But as their relationships continue to falter in a foreign land, their dream holiday may prove more of an adventure outing.
FILM- SEX AND THE CITY 2
From: the exhibit
The ‘perfect’ lives of the four New York friends are still proving troublesome, so when they’re offered a luxury holiday in Abu Dhabi, they jump at the chance. But as their relationships continue to falter in a foreign land, their dream holiday may prove more of an adventure outing.
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