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I made it to the Anglesea Arms about three hours before opening time.

This signage was all there, last time I was here back in 2002.

I only went to the Anglesea once when I was a student. Morris dancers turned up and performed, but I don’t think that was the reason we preferred the Hoop and Toy amongst the South Ken pubs.

It was a different story when I worked at ICR 15 years later when the Anglesea was a favourite of mine and the rest of the IT department.

Maybe if I had waited until opening time I would have seen Julian Lloyd Webber who was also there most evenings.

Back in 2001 we had finished work early on the Friday before the August bank holiday. A very drunk French lady (not with us) drove off against the protests of everyone in the pub that she was in no fit state, and managed to hit three vehicles before reaching the junction with Fulham Road.

The police sent two vans, two cars and 14 officers who patiently calmed her down before hauling her off to the station.

Apparently they planned the Great Train Robbery in the Anglesea Arms. Maybe that’s why the police came mob-handed to arrest one pissed French lady…

Wandering around South Kensington yesterday, but couldn’t find the Ennismore Arms. The closed pubs site confirms it is no more… https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/sw7_southkensington_ennismorearms.html

This is the first time I’ve seen the speaker at last week’s Scottish Football Writers’ Association awards named. Not sure why the broadcast media didn’t name him at the time. No idea who Bill Copeland is, but he sure didn’t read the room that night…

From today’s Observer

This was playing when I was in Rough Trade yesterday #LondonTrip #ATuneADay #MadVillain #ShadowsOfTomorrow

My dad and I ate at this Chinese restaurant in Knightsbridge on my very first day living in London, 37 years ago. So much has changed around the Imperial College campus, but this place looks exactly the same.

He had driven me down from Doncaster to my new home in Imperial’s Garden Hall that day and he suggested we stop here for lunch. I don’t remember what we ate or what we talked about.

I think it was the only time the two of us ate a meal in a restaurant, the whole episode seems a little out of character. Usually we would eat in a pub, a greasy spoon, a Little Chef or fish and chips taken back to the car, which suited us both better.

My youngest brother Andrew had been born the night before. I would start my attempt at a Physics degree the next day. Maybe he thought we needed something different to celebrate.

How much for a red one?

Imagine if tomorrow the workers went on strike

Not just British Leyland, but the whole world…

I love being on the Sounds of the Universe mailing list. So much new old music…

#InPraiseOfMitochondria #MinoruFushimi #ThanatosOfFunk

After a day of feeling properly free of COVID, an equal and opposite day of feeling exhausted and cold with heavy, heavy legs.

I’ve been adding to this Spotify playlist since last year. I don’t update it every day, but I try…

Anyway, I just found this band in an old copy of Electronic Sound magazine #Niesennenmondai