We strolled once more through Cricklewood on our way westwards towards Willesden, there to have dinner with a couple of our acquaintance and their children. It was not the most enlivening meal, as one of the children was recently diagnosed with a congenital condition that will require major surgery, as well as a less major […]
Cricklewood
I went to Cricklewood yesterday, to collect some parcels. I had never been there before (though the Gentleman Friend avers that I have), though it it only a 20 minute walk from where we are in Hampstead. It is a very different world indeed, with African grocers and halal butchers, a bingo hall, a working […]
Cannoli by the canal
Another pleasant weekend day as the Gentleman Friend and I took a bus down to St John’s Wood (a cut-rate Westbourne Grove) and then got onto the canal, walking eastwards through Regent’s Park (warthogs), Camden (tourists and dope smokers) and finally King’s Cross. The development here was looking fabulous. The first time I was in […]
Hot day in town
Yesterday was Saturday and I began the morning with a trip to the West Hampstead farmer’s market, there to get bread, ravioli and whatever else looked good. I forgot both bread and ravioli and instead returned with a broad selection of berries, vegetables and yoghurts. One punnet of raspberries in a virtuously recyclable cardboard container […]
Heath stop
I had a GP’s appointment in South End Green for my eczema which, annoyingly, has cleared up completely since I made the appointment and apparently the NHS doesn’t prescribe emolients any more anyway, so it was rather frustrating. South End Green is nearer Belsize Park than Hampstead, and I strolled there a good hour early […]
Hamilton woes
My birthday present to the GF this year is (or will be next month) a pair of tickets to Hamilton as he is a great fan and has virtually memorised the entire show. I was fortunate to find two quite good seats on Ticketmaster and was full of praise for their anti-scalping measure, ie making […]
Aging
Annihilation is one of the words I find impossible to spell (I wonder which commonly known words are the hardest?), and also the name of the film the GF and I watched last night. I had read the book by Jeff VanderMeer and enjoyed its hallucinogenic lunacy. The image of the upside-down tower stayed with […]
Big sleep
We watched this last night. I’m afraid I dozed through bits of it, but in any case I didn’t find it as engaging as the book. Maybe I just love the book too much as it’s clearly considered a great film. This morning I did some tidying and cleaning and accounting, all very satisfying, then […]
Brexit march
I wish I could have gone to the Brexit march in Central London today. It’s something I feel very strongly about, and also entirely disempowered about, so it would have been good to have made that small gesture. But today was the day that someone’s ashes were to be confined to the ground, in the […]
Burger and squid
I went out to dinner with the relative plus one, as well as her old friend who lives in London and is an academic. The old friend has recently moved to a university I was once employed at, so we shared some gossip about members of her department-to-be. We met at Bobo Social, which is […]