Archive for category: Overflow

• Celebrity chairs

  And let this be a lesson to you. The text says “we sold a chair to Damien Hirst”

   

• Friday’s London Links

  Someone wants to ban cyclists from our roads. Fat chance. Tower Hamlets Wheelers. Vickie Flores was told she couldn’t take a picture of the cable cars works. Cheek! Protesters force rethink on Lewisham’s homes. East London Lines. Haringey Independent tells us that £4,000 in cash was found lying in the […]

   

• How much is that monkey in the window?

  Interesting shop window at 135 New Cross Road. They even have a blog, window135. The site says “‘Window135′ began in 2004. It started tentatively as a method of ‘putting distance’ between the New Cross Road and the family living room. Formerly a shop the building was one of two greengrocers […]

   

• London’s Melting Pot: Zimbabwe edition

  These lively folk were singing and dancing against oppression in Zimbabwe. A whole host of Africans calling for an end of Muugabe’s regime in central London.

   

• Wednesday’s London Links: not talking about the elections edition

  Another dose of links from across the smoggy city; Get your forelock tugging Oyster holders here, Mayor Watch, Londonist West End Extra is getting a little cheeky with a local councillor who doesn’t want to play. What are they doing to our lovely buildings? Kings Cross Environment. Kentish Towner has a lovely […]

   

• Tuesday’s London Links

  Kennington people on bikes are bigging up Lambeth’s fantastic cycle maintenance classes. However the police in Greenwich are recommending raising the speed limits – as a safety measure! 853 with the story. Haringey schools are to get ‘fairer funding’ Hornsey Journal. Barnet Eye on the local council’s outsourcing. There will be 70 […]

   

• Monday’s London Links

  A new week and a new round-up; The Economist describes London as an electoral diaspora. From France, to the US to Russia we help decide the world’s elections. In South West London we have a new carbon measuring center. BBC. Daryl at 853 reports on developments with the infamous cable […]

   

• West Street comment on bankers

  The recession has finally hit West Street in Bethnal Green. Nice work.

   

• Saturday’s London Links

  Out and about The Camden New Journal reports on Dumpton Place and the battle to rename the Dump…ton. Cycles, pedestrians and cars could share our streets in perfect harmony, says the Evening Standard. Updating on the Clissold Park Cafe story in the Hackney Gazette. London Underground sees new ads stating […]

   

• Life is beautiful on Plender Street

  It’s nice to look up and find that life is beautiful on Plender Street.