Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

Friday, July 20, 2007

"It's raining, it's pouring"

and if you live in the N2 or N3 postal areas of London you're likely to be swept away by a torrent of water.

Wrath of the Gods? Global Warming? warning to David Cameron? Whatever it is it ain't cricket. (I believe they've taken an early lunch at Lords*)


* try explaining that to an American

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Disappearing London

For those of you who know the Hampstead Garden Suburb area of North London, you may be disappointed by the demolition, currently under way, of the old H R Owen garage on Lyttleton Road. This fine piece of "between the wars" architecture, which incidentally was a Rolls Royce showroom some years ago, will no doubt be making way for another block of flats. I don't suppose there was anything special about this garage, it's just that it's a shame to see an old friend disappear.

Add this to the recent closure of Hammersmith Palais (where my father went dancing) and Highbury Stadium in recent months, and you can see where I'm going with this.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

How to win at your Toastmasters International club.

Earlier I collected another "Best Evaluator" award at London Corinthians.

The "secret" to evaluating someone's speech is to remain focused on how the speaker could have altered the overall theme or strategy. There's no point rambling on about minutiae like certain aspects of eye contact, vocal variety, hand-clasping and so on.

Also, it's never good to give people a huge emotional lift by saying your were inspired by their speech when you weren't. Be honest in your appraisal.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Blog of the Week

Lady Banana has bucketloads of photos on her site. Never boring even if she is a banana.












UPDATE

Jungle Jane nearly made it as Blog of the Week. Her blog is digital narcissism at its finest. Petite Anglaise, eat your heart out.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Top tips for keeping fit - Regular Massage

These are outlined over here

One of them is to have a regular massage. I'm plugging Sheline in Boundary Road, St Johns Wood, London NW8