Lined up outside Brixton Police station can be seen this strange selection of plant pots, all bearing bizarre, God-squad-tastic hand painted slogans. WTF?!!





Full feature here

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Blimey. What a week. Last Saturday I went to the Windmill, Brixton for the leaving bash of two of my friends, Scott and Jo. It was a fabulous night that involved a lot of drinking, although it's always a bit bitter sweet when your chums are leaving the country for good.

I'd prepared a special set of old time country bootstompers for Scott, but he spent most of the time lying on the floor drunk in front of the DJ booth.

His boots may not have stomped, but I'm sure I saw a few twitches...



The next afternoon I was DJing at the excellent Stumbleworthy event at the Duke of Sutherland Pub, Lorrimore Road, SE17.

I was still nursing a king size hangover, so all those buttons on the mixer confused me for quite a while, but I stayed on for a drink with some urbanites.

The Sutherland is a great, old-school boozer with cheap beer, pool table, Caribbean Soul food, board-games and a beer-garden. Well worth a visit.


On my beer-exuding walk over to the venue, I noticed this unusual sign, and posted up a page about it.

Thanks to the folks on the urban75 boards, I discovered the background to its unusual name:

"It's called the Onion Shed because until the early 1980's it was used by a group of Breton Onion sellers. You used to see them cycling round south London with their bicycles heavily laden with strings of onions and garlic. If I missed them in the street I would call round and buy my onions from the shed, where they would be stringing then together. I always suspected that they slept in the loft, although it was all fairly derelict."



Wandering around town today, I came across this lovely old Welsh chapel, Capel Bedyddwyr Cymreig. Find out more here.

I've finally made a start on the Brixton section and have posted up an all-new homepage which I think looks loads better.


I've posted up a piece about Brixton Water Lane which has some beautiful Regency and early Victorian villas, as well as a dark secret: MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN BRIXTON, May 1900

Other new features and updates on the site include:
Goodbye to the Hobgoblin boozer
Adam and Eve Court, London W1
London's narrowest alley
Vauxhall Cross Transport Interchange
Camberwell Submarine

Labels: brixton, london, photos

Although we used to regularly camp at nearby Llangennith when we were kids, I don't think I'd ever been to Oxwich Bay before. And what a delight it was!

We visited on the weekend and it was more or less deserted, so it felt like we had the beach to ourselves as we walked along the expanse of sand and then checked out the nature reserve amongst the sand dunes.



I even joined in with my nephews for a bit of a sand dune leaping later on!

Oxwich Bay photos

Just got back from The Endorse it in Dorset Festival and had a fabulous time.



It's a lovely little festival with a great vibe, lovely people, top bands and a real old-school attitude which means no corporate bollocks.



And after the horrors of Glastonbury, it was great to spend a weekend free of mud and rain.

The Endorse it in Dorset Festival, 2007

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Offline at the Charterhouse Bar - our first central London club gig!





Offline Charterhouse night

Offline at the Prince Albert - Brixton Splash after-party

This was a long party - we started at 5pm and didn't finish till around 2am!




I've no idea what's going on here!



The pub was busy all night and the crowd were wild - and it was on a Sunday!

Offline photos

A few early shots from the free street festival.

We'll be DJing by the Albert from 5pm onwards!

See more photos here: Brixton Splash 2007

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This was a good blag because I:

(a) love the BT Telecom Tower
(b) love wintery things and
(c) love freebies

...and all three were on offer today as I'd been invited to the launch of BT's winter range of tech goodies.



It was a tad odd to be looking out over London from a mock up of Santa's grotto, but I was happy as could be scoffing strawberry champagne jelly sat next to a Christmas tree looking over the mighty metropolis.

I was given a press pack as I left containing a very strange DECT phone which I'll review later.

BT Telecom Tower photos

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