Monthly Archives: February 2011
Guest post: Hidden City by David Long
Between school on London’s Essex fringes and Birmingham University – in what I suppose must have been a parentally-guided bid to broaden my experience of life, I spent six months clerking for a Japanese investment bank in the City. In … Continue reading
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Pages of Hackney
There’s something so exciting about opening the front door to an Amazon delivery (except when it’s not for you. One of the problems of being home full-time is that delivery people tend to ring every doorbell in a flat just … Continue reading
Filed under Books & words in general, Shopping
In praise of Homerton Hospital
‘Becoming a parent is like blowing up your entire life, and the baby is the best thing lying in the rubble’. So said Lorrie Moore in A Gate at the Stairs… or something along those lines. I would check, but I … Continue reading
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