Monthly Archives: April 2009

Recently we had comments on this site about the Mr Punch church service that takes place in Covent Garden. Well, the fellowship of Punch & Judy has its own website, and you can learn more here. It seems wonderfully appropriate that a group of people dedicated to this… …have as their chairman the very wonderful […]

He’s very dry, very English, and it’s very hard to disagree with him. Here’s Britain’s 41st most popular stand-up comic on books.

Here’s a gentleman whose interests follow my own. He’s managed to squash down a quick tour of London oddities into his lunch hour. Take a look.

Credit Crunch time, and let’s not go to France for Easter, let’s just, you know, hang out in London. But Easter is a mysterious time here. It’s not Christmas, when you know nothing is open and it’s not August Bank Holiday, when you know nothing is shut. Instead, I spent two days trying to find […]

Okay, enough depressing mad people. Here’s a bunch of commuters doing something far more useful and life-affirming. I love the big finish. Thanks for this, Ian!

Speaking of videos put together by mad people, Peter Lee sends me this link, about what happens when incredibly stupid young men are allowed near camcorders. See if you can spot where the flaw in this presenter’s argument first appears – could it be when he compares a wire mesh to a piece of latex?

Okay, I live in London, one of the most integrated cities on the planet, where black, white, straight and gay people can generally live without getting their heads kicked in by bigots, and – shock, horror – it seems to work pretty well. But in the US, a far-right church group has paid to put […]

I just spotted this poster in King’s Cross. The bill sticker seems to have got bored and left, leaving a hybrid spud-car behind. I wonder if he decided to leave it because the potato and the vehicle worked well together?

In a gesture of Easter magnanimity I’ve decided that, for a limited time only, anyone who wants to can have make a short film from one of my stories FOR FREE. All you have to do is tell me which story you want to film, take it, adapt it, do whatever you like with it, […]

Over the years readers have asked me about a volume of short stories I wrote called ‘More City Jitters’ that simply does not seem to exist. Well, I’ve always explained that it only came out in the US, and that although I no longer had it on my shelf, it surely did exist. I’ve finally […]