This was the day I noticed some of the regular dudes from around the neighbourhood were wearing suits and escorting pleased old ladies – presumably their grandmothers – at a very slow pace toward cars and corners.
Our first stop …
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I’m back from Sussex, back in Camden, soon to be leaving for New York. Had a brilliant weekend with Ade, Lucy and the world’s most intelligent two-year-old. Jaw-dropping vocab, unfailingly polite even when cranky, full of opinions, inhabitant of a rich …
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I’m writing this on the plane to pass the time.
So yesterday I was really feeling the lack of sleep. And I was trying to work, and not doing very well at it. In fact I’ve still got to mark up …
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Bussed it out to Espoo, met up with one of my brother’s friends (well a mutual friend really as we kindasorta grew up in the same neighbourhood), ate meat, drank beer. Met a charming Irish-Finnish rogue of an opera singer who …
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So at 10:30pm I got restless and went for a walk through the twilight. Wandered into a new area, with different mobs. Found a tavern… this metaphor is getting away from me.
It was an Irish pub. I got a pint …
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So much of what happened yesterday happened too rapidly to take notes, or take anything other than snapshots. So I’m attempting to recreate the …
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Thursday 27th May, 2010. 11:33pm. Berlin.
Sitting in the loft with bread that’s almost entirely soft grain, cheese, grapes and mint tea. Decided I needed a night in. Took a three-hour nap and my brain …
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I’m sitting in a cafe in Berlin trying to recreate the last 24 hours of WGT from photos and memory.
We woke and made an early-ish start, as we wanted to get to a medieval market that was being held just …
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Pints with old friends I’ve never met.
This morning I managed to miss London Bridge station and wound being catapulted deep into some seriously green and pleasant land. St. Alban’s to be exact. Glad I got to see the countryside, …
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It’s drunk old man karaoke night, tonight, here at the Palace Hotel Ballroom. Actually, pretty much everyone’s going for it. Just listened to a flat, ear-splitting rendition of ‘Perhaps’.
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I lack the words to describe what …
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