On my walk home last night I had an experience that I have never had before. As I was striding down the Mile End Road, just after the junction with Cambridge Heath Road, I noticed something on the floor. As I got closer I realised it was a wad of money. There were £20s and […]
Today is the day. I will be visiting the cinema this evening to see the most eagerly anticipated movie of the year, for me anyway. At 8.30 tonight I will be sitting on the front row of Screen 1 in Mile End Road’s Genesis Cinema. Guess which film it is. Go on. No, not Hanna […]
I have recently discovered that my block of flats, and much of the surrounding area, is now an official conservation zone. It was my opinion that my little part of East London was in severe physical, economic and humanistic decline but it appears that the Mile End Road part of Stepney is quite a desired […]
He is waiting in the sky and he is going to dump a ton of snow on the roads and pavements.
Oh yes, it looks like the world has ended. In all my years of living in the capital I have never seen anything like this. The ground is covered in over a foot of weird […]
Who was that woman? She was middle aged, smartly dressed and kinda sexy in an older woman way. She was stood over the road from my flat and she was taking photos. She had a big telescopic lens camera on a tripod and was snapping away. Not just of anything, oh no. Her camera was […]
Celebrity method actor and Batman star Christian Bale has been bailed by police following his arrest over allegations he assaulted his mother and sister. The Welsh born actor denies the allegations, which supposedly took place in a suite at London’s Dorchester Hotel on Sunday.
Bale was in London to promote the latest instalment of the Batman […]
I managed to witness the scenes of disruption and chaos which followed the Olympic torch through the streets of London. The procession made its way down the Mile End Road, directly outside my flat. The torch was not there – it travelled via the river after it had got to Tower Bridge, but the cortege […]
Oh boy, was I delighted that my Easter weekend was sound tracked by a very loud shop alarm. This has now been firing off for a week, during the day, and more importantly, during the night. I am not getting much sleep. I have reached the point where I have difficulty discerning what is real […]
I have new neighbours in the flat above me. I have not met them yet, and I do not believe I ever shall. It is very much the London way to never meet one’s neighbours. I do not even know who lives next door to me – but I do hear their constant playing of […]
Celebrities Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse have stepped up to support one of their favourite London pubs. The George Tavern, on Commercial Road in Stepney, is a traditional East End boozer and is an establishment where I have imbibed on a number of occasions; it is only ten minutes away from where I live. There […]