Last few days for the Belgian flags of the Leon de Bruxelles
The green livery and the Belgian flags still amazingly survive, but it can only be a few days now before the Leon de Bruxelles on Cambridge Circus reopens as a … Continue reading
“Original Terrorist Clothing”???
The new Child of the Jago shop in Charing Cross Road has the words “Original Terrorist Clothing” emblazoned on its front door, and I always look at that in passing … Continue reading
Leon de Bruxelles on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue & Charing Cross Road has closed down
Leon de Bruxelles on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road has closed down, and is to reopen as a McDonald’s.
Every time I walk past the Edith Cavell “Shot at Dawn” monument at the bottom of the Charing Cross Road
Every time I walk past the Edith Cavell “Shot at Dawn” monument at the bottom of the Charing Cross Road (as I often do) I think of my love, and … Continue reading
I have been doing so many faux-European things
I have been doing so many faux-European things: going to the Facing the Modern, Vienna around 1900 exhibition at the National Gallery (underwhelming), the George Grosz exhibition in Old Bond … Continue reading
Feeling so hungry and thinking of those amazing Brussels Grill steaks
Feeling so hungry and thinking of those amazing Brussels Grill steaks I enjoyed last month, I stood outside the Angus Steak House in the Charing Cross Road looking at it … Continue reading
I got the No.38 to the Charing Cross Road
I got the No.38 to the Charing Cross Road to go in the second hand bookshops, for the first time in about 10 years. There seem to be just three … Continue reading
Every new building nowadays is made entirely of glass and steel
Every new building nowadays is made entirely of glass and steel. How soulless every city will look when it just consists of these glass buildings. Yes we have destroyed the … Continue reading
I still once in a while go back to Sunset Strip
I still once in a while go back to Sunset Strip as it was the first place I ever saw a naked woman; if only I could still go back … Continue reading
I’m just confused
I’m just confused because since I turned 21—and I headed hardly able to breathe up a grey windy September Dean Street into Sunset Strip, down the steepling deathtrap stairs into … Continue reading
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