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I love London.  Really.  After having been away from the city for over a year I am so very glad to be back.
Due to an excess of holidays I have had a nice long three day weekend and have spent it on me me me.  Aside from meeting friends for coffee and macaroons I also [...]

staying skeptical

Back in April I went to Paris and blogged both about the amazing velib system and my fears of the utter failure it could be if introduced in London.  This evening I read on the tube that a similar scheme is getting closer in London - the Guardian talks about it here.
My original negativity remains. [...]

values

This evening at headspace we talked about vision and values.  The two are co-dependent much more than I initially thought.  A certain vision is only achievable by adopting a set of values that match the vision.  If a vision is to create an intimate community or family then intimacy of some sort must inherently be [...]

Services for Santa

One can only imagine that this company on Kennington Lane has off-season trade from lapland.  After all - why have them around the house if you don’t need them?

Party time

Even when my new camera turned up I wasn’t as excited as when I received this parcel from the internet:

I’m having a kids party this weekend and felt I needed, amongst other things, to acquire some old school sweets.  Back to the silly game planning.
And yes.  Those are candy necklaces in the corner.