On Mile End Road, passed the Whitechapel Market and hilariously named ‘Ideas Store’ (because, you know, nobody understands the term ‘library’) you will find a cinematic treat.
The Genesis Cinema is probably my favourite cinema in all of East London. Firstly, it’s £5. You heard me, £5. Now, that’s not only ridiculously cheap for London; five [...]
Here’s a bold statement to kick off your Wednesday: everyone who goes to New York has exactly the same holiday as everyone else.
According to the photos at least.
I challenge anyone to visit New York and not come back with at least a variation on all of these:
The Taxi
So, you’ve just got off the plane and [...]
If any of you are near a car, or a train station or even a National Express depot, then I urge you to make haste to The New Forest. Go now. There are horses the size of dogs there.
Nell Frizzell
Sorry for the slight decrease in posts over the last few days.
Firstly, I have been battling with a mighty case of self-diagnosed swine flu. Oh yes; sore throat, cough, painful eyes, allergy to brightness, aching limbs and a nose that would give Linford Christie a run for his money.
Secondly, I have been trying to butcher [...]
Or as a ‘health and beauty’ journalist, or any of my other previous incarnations, do you know what I’d be flogging like Comedy of Errors at The Grand National right now?
Yes, hand cream.
Because, what with the whole nation turning obsessive compulsive over Swine Flu - washing their hands every time they so much as think [...]
They don’t mess with my copy, they put things up quickly and they attract interesting people who leave well thought out comments.
See my latest post for them here
So what if they slightly mis-spell some stuff? At least they don’t re-write it.
I kid you not, this was the name of my primary school headmaster’s band. He played the trombone.
I mention Mr Townsend’s eccentrically (see seedily) named musical group, because they were the guys who always played in the playground on May Day when we waved our short chubby arms and skipped our chubby little legs around [...]
Another piece for the Leeds Guide…
Illustration by narcsville.com
Everybody loved prints during the 80s. Maybe it was all those classic sex funk hits. Maybe it was the gender bending videos. Maybe it was all those colour contrasting frills. Whatever it was, prints had it in spades during the 80s.Oh hold on, wrong kind of prints. [...]