{"id":766,"date":"2004-07-18T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2011-06-05T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:17:23","slug":"766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/766\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Art Fairs and shopping for clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shopping and drinking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, when it comes to shopping for clothes, I&#8217;m not too good. In fact, I&#8217;m utterly rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>I get stressed within seconds of entering a clothes shop, I instantly imagine that everything would look rubbish on me and if I manage to find something I like, it inevitably only comes in size XXXL ElephantFatBastard or has five mile long legs. Or I&#8217;m quietly informed that they&#8217;d look ridiculous on me.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday I was in luck.  I finally managed to sort out my troubling declining trouser problem in one fell swoop, grabbing three pairs of pants that (a) actually fitted (b) didn&#8217;t make me look like an absolute arse and (c) didn&#8217;t cost a small fortune.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kingscross.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oyster Bar Kings Cross\" width=\"350\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a triumphant skip in my step, I went for a leisurely ramble around central London, trekking from Covent Garden up Tottenham Court Road and eventually ending up at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/st_pancras.html\" target=\"_blank\"> St Pancras<\/a> where I took a couple of photos of the fabulous station before recording the crumbling wreck of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/london\/lon487.html\" target=\"_blank\">old Oyster Bar<\/a> building by Kings Cross.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urbanart.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Urban Art 2004, Brixton\" width=\"350\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in Brixton, I checked out the superb <a title=\"Urban Art fair\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/urban_art.html\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Art fair<\/a> in Josephine Avenue &#8211; a large outdoor street gallery, with paintings hung up on railings.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, it was off to the Albert for an excellent night of quaffing with a host of cheery chums. Vic&#8217;s poetry night was on in the garden and a mighty good time was had by all. Respect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping and drinking Now, when it comes to shopping for clothes, I&#8217;m not too good. In fact, I&#8217;m utterly rubbish. 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