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I'm a writerillustratorartistcartoonist and I live in a quiet north London valley with my very loud family.
Interests: gardening, painting, still trying to play the guitar after all these years, walking in the park with small children, watching cbeebies, completing grand creative projects in my head while i'm lying in bed
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Getting Waylaid While Buying DIY Supplies
Yesterday I went out onto Blackstock Road with the specific task of buying a replacement blade for my hacksaw. A nice, simple, job - there are three hardware shops within half a mile or so so it shouldn't have been too difficult. Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2013 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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Thanks, Generic Viagra person. Very generous comment, there and I'm glad you are a fan. However, you started to repeat yourself a bit towards the end (in a manner not-dissimilar to another commenter recently who I shall name Extend Your Manhood person.)
Commented Sep 14, 2012 on Plants I Don't Know the Name Of: Some Herb Seeds I Scattered Around The Place at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
Plants I Don't Know the Name Of: Some Herb Seeds I Scattered Around The Place
A few years ago I read a book about medieval herbalism and, as I am wont to do, afterwards decided to make it a part of my life. I could be a herbalist! So I sent off for a load of seeds from a specialist shop and when they came, rather than sticking them in a drawer like I usually do, I scatter...
Plants I Don't Know the Name Of: Some Herb Seeds I Scattered Around The Place
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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The Seagulls
Posted Mar 2, 2012 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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Café Vintage, Mountgrove Road, Highbury
Posted May 10, 2011 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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The Crazy Modernist Building At The End Of Our Street
Posted Feb 17, 2011 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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A City Walk
Posted Feb 10, 2011 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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My Squeezebox Playing Grandfather
Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Tony Bradford Art
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Girl In A Stripey Jumper
Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Tony Bradford Art
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The Woods
Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Tony Bradford Art
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La Repe, Burgundy
Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Tony Bradford Art
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Poulnabrone dolmen, The Burren
Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Tony Bradford Art
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Ballinalacken Castle, Co. Clare, Ireland
Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Tony Bradford Art
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I agree about the Brown Sauce, Stay-At-Home. I've experimented with all kinds of combinations in the past and it often depends on the kind of bread used. At the old Arsenal Cafe on Blackstock Road the bacon sarnies were made with thick crusty white bread and were fantastic.See http://thesmoke.typepad.com/urbancountrydiary/1999/09/index.html
Funnily enough I only really learned how to cook bacon properly after watching you make a big German breakfast in DC back in 2000.
Commented Feb 2, 2011 on Workers Café, 740 Holloway Road at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
Workers Café, 740 Holloway Road
There are seven tables in the workers Café. Apart from me there is just one other customer, a little Irish lady called Mary sitting in the corner eating meat and two veg. My coffee comes – it’s weakish and very milky. I haven’t had coffee like this since I was on an internal flight in Venez...
Workers Café, 740 Holloway Road
Posted Jan 31, 2011 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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Starbucks, Highbury Corner
As usual on a Saturday late morning I’ve dropped 7 year old off at football then rushed to grab a coffee and continue my ongoing Great Lincolnshire Novel. But I can’t get a seat anywhere. It’s Arsenal v Spurs today... Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2011 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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Noo Noo & Bebo's, Kentish Town Road, London NW5
Posted Nov 24, 2010 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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"It's the half term holiday!"
I had a dream last night that I was in the west of Ireland and had left a pub to go in search of a mandolin so I could join the session. (This is dream bravado, of course - I've... Continue reading
Posted Nov 24, 2010 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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I've got wheels and a full tank of gas
I've got wheels and a full tank of gas. To be more specific, it's a full tank of high performance unleaded petrol. I drove out of the garage on Hornsey Road thinking to myself "I could go anywhere, do anything.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 24, 2010 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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Jack Kerouac and the East Midlands
Posted Sep 13, 2010 at Small Town England
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Entertainment
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Small Town England
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Tim Bradford is now following Ianplenderleith.blogspot.com
May 26, 2010
Replica Kit Heartbreak
Posted May 26, 2010 at The Smoke: An Urban Country Diary
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Down (local) memory lane
Posted May 26, 2010 at Small Town England
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Castrated Conservative Councillors
Posted May 19, 2010 at Small Town England
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