Thursday, 5 September 2024

A new demographic marker - when Lime bikes descend like swarms of locusts

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 Lime bikes are getting people's backs up in all parts of town, mainly for being thoughtlessly dumped on narrow pavements, blocking ent...
Thursday, 18 July 2024

*Why, why, why...why are we sleeping?

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So why quote this line from the 1968 Soft Machine track? The lyric was typical of its time, a lysergic bad dream, intoned in Kevin Ayers...
Monday, 22 April 2024

Dear Paris, please would you lend us your mayor for a few years?

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Having banned traffic from the north bank of the Seine, and reduced the scourge of SUVs in the centre,  Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, enjoys...
Saturday, 10 February 2024

Rest in peace, Damo - your sound carries on, you crazy sound carrier

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I love this quote of Damo's on the back cover of  the memoir published in 2023 - but I'd also like to slightly disagree. Damo belong...

Getting the hump over speed bumps, and other stories

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Here we go again. Your 40-year-old pushbike and the 71-year-old lump of fat, bone and gristle pedalling it like mad (aka me) almost take off...
Thursday, 1 September 2022

Reserving the right to be angry about most things (alternative headline: Clapham SUV deflations - it wasn't me but I wish it had been)

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Yeah sorry it's just a basic Range Rover again, there's many bigger, uglier more repulsive and offensive SUVs out there I know (I me...
Monday, 20 June 2022

Oh come on, please, isn't it time to take those jubilee flags down?

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There's a street in Clapham - let's call it The Chase, as that's what it's called - which looks like it has fallen into the ...