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London There’s a tendency in this country for quite mediocre businesses to survive or even flourish based on their proximity to large groups of lazy people. There’s the Station-to-Pub-Proximity-Rule to illustrate this (in that by and large the quality of a pub will be inversely proportional to its distance from a train station), and then…
London Have you ever wandered into a restaurant because you were getting really hungry, were in a rush to be somewhere else, and the place had (lots) of empty tables? Well, in this case, the best advice would be to keep looking. 2 colleagues and I had originally hoped to get into Chowki for a…
Westminster After reading about all of the wonderful coffee places springing up in the City in the last few months, jealousy began to take hold of the workers in the St James’s Park/Victoria area. Around here it’s all been the main chains, and lunchtime sandwich bars. Quality’s therefore ranged from acceptably-above-mediocre to DIRE. With the…
London – Eating & Drinking – Pubs & Bars – Pubs Many elements must converge to make a great pub, and The Gunmakers is one of a handful of central London pubs which exemplifies this. The main drawcard is the always-changing selection of immaculately kept real ales. Landlord Jeff takes great care of his beer,…
So, we had a small titter of celebration here at Humpy Towers when my facebook friend count hit 800. A bit later when it hit 900, I was further surprised but quite chuffed: it’s nice to know there’s so many people around from years gone by who, if they don’t currently keep in regular contact,…
Every now and again a weekend comes up which culminates in an almost shellshocked feeling of “Wow, how lucky am I?!”. And the 15th was the beginning of just such a weekend, because it started with a chance to see marathon-talking & epically curious global documenter Henry Rollins at Royal Festival Hall. I’ve been lucky…
Come on… Who thought this was a good idea for the name of a pub, own up. You know this country is essentially one massive Carry On film.
In late 2004 in an effort to prove that you can get anything on eBay I purchased an A-Team coat hanger – it had a likeness of Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith, portrayed memorably by George Peppard. Documentation on the exact date is sketchy, however in early 2005 I came into possession of the BA Baracus one,…
Just a quick bit of morning incredulousness today – whilst half-listening to the radio (Five Live, for reasons to be explained separately) an ad came on featuring a made-up scene where one man is describing to his friend the benefits of owning the new Volkswagen Transporter. One of the supposed benefits of the new model,…
Sometimes in Hammersmith – as it turns out – people recycle sinks.