Please Do Not Climb On The Horse

Dec 022013

Horse

Please Do Not Touch The Walrus

or 1001 Things To Not Do In London

No. 7: climbing on the horse in Spring Gardens

photo © Matt Salusbury

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Tagged with: Animals, Please Do Not Touch The Walrus, Sculpture, West End, Westminster

Looking back through the clouds…

The Ghost of Tooting Bec Common

by Kevin Acott
Normans from Bec ended up in Streatham, as everyone does, and – having bought some cheap Bulgarian shaving foam in Lidl, a samosa in the Somalian internet cafe and a can of aloe vera-infused iced tea in Chicken Cottage – settled on Tooting Common, building a swimming pool but running out of money before they could get the roof done. Having integrated with a tribe of eternally disappointed warriors known as Palisfans, they effectively disappeared, leaving behind only the name and the infamous South West London shoulder shrug. [read more...]