Above is a non-artist’s impression of my cycle journey home yesterday, after an area of south London between Vauxhall and Camberwell lost power at about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon.  Am I alone in feeling a small charge of excitement at the vaguely post-apocalyptic scenes of backed-up traffic crawling through interchanges with no street lamps or [...]

Still not sure about this one – it’s just really sad. A couple of weeks ago I was going to write about something I saw on one of the mornings when I walk into work. On Camberwell New Road, pretty much half way between Camberwell and Oval, bunches of flowers were tied to a lamppost [...]

Kind of (with apologies for the dreadful framing). It’s not a shopping centre, but I’m marginally disappointed by this. I don’t know what I wanted to happen there, but I was hoping for something that matched the originality of the tethered hot air balloon that used to give birds eye views of London (before the [...]

Nice idea. I can do that.

Went along to the Ace Cafe London, biker hang-out extraordinaire, at the weekend to see a small gathering of Routemaster buses and their proud owners. A funnier bunch of bus devotees you never did see. We were mainly interested in finding out what people had done with them once they’d been decommissioned and sold off, [...]

As the big man would say, boilk. A pleasure as ever, sir. Arseblog was the first online social network thingummy I got involved with. It was pretty special to watch it grow from the (usually hung over, always funny) blog of an Irish Arsenal fan in Barcelona in 2002, to the inception of the ‘arses’ [...]

Well, as you can see, this blog appears to be up and running. I could hang around for ever while I get it looking pretty and functioning nicely, but I reckon I’m better off just jumping in. Let’s hope all this default stuff doesn’t hang around as long the dead links have on the home [...]