With spring arriving in the Wivenhoe air, now is the time for Jardine to announce a new schedule of events to light up our evenings. Essex author James Gurbutt will be holding court on the corner of Belle Vue Road on the evening of 6th April, from 7:30 onwards. James will be talking about his [...]
With the Transition Town network rapidly growing throughout the UK (I hear St Reatham is being rolled out next - blimey…) it is with apt timing that the fine folk of Transition Town Wivenhoe update us with news of their many varied and sustainable activities around the town. The Transition ethos of changing your little [...]
And so fifteen summers of outdoor swimming in South London came to a close for me early on Sunday morning as I bid an emotional farewell to @BrockwellLido. A final creak of the iconic turnstiles, and I exited the cool waters of Lake Brockwell for probably the last time. I didn’t get this tearful after [...]
I was left in a peculiar position at the London Neighbourhoods Online Unconference, held at the offices of Ofcom on Saturday. On the very same day that the Stockwell Festival was being staged, plus the Lambeth Archives Open Day, here I was, flying the online flag for Sunny Stockwell, just as I enter single digit [...]
Sirens and police helicopters. The struggle to engage with people in a meaningful and shared co-existence. Crappy local media. The tawdriness of the West End, the supposed showpiece of London. Not knowing anything about North London. The disguising of the traditional class structure, with crude wealth replacing the means of production. Cycling along Park Lane. [...]
Early Sunday morning and @BrockwellLido was bloody closed - again. After the run of five closures during the balmy days of June, I thought Fusion had finally understood how to manage an outdoor swimming pool. Only yesterday and I was commenting to the lovely Lido Peter how the clear, blue waters of Lake Brockwell have [...]
I’m starting to sound like Margaret Thatcher after being turfed out of No. 10, but yep - we’re leaving the place we have called home for the past fifteen years, probably for the final time. I arrived in Brixton back in the summer of 1995, full of hope, high on optimism and with a huge [...]
