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  • A Merry Evening in September

    • I confess that none of this story is my own. It’s one I found in a job lot of books I bought from Greenwich Auctions a short while ago. I’d only bought the lot for a single book, the rest were very definitely makeweights, destined for a life on the shelves of theme pubs. I just [...]

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  • Blackberry Boogie

    • James asks: I was wondering if there were any places in or around Greenwich where you can go blackberry picking? I have seen the odd scraggy bramble here and there, but nothing properly abundant or suitably far from a busy road. Is there anything in Eltham Forest, perhaps? It would seem like the logical place to [...]



  • Quick Warning

    • Folks – this is nothing to do with Greenwich, just a technical warning about an annoying bug that seems to affect PC users who also have iTunes. I was ‘invited’ by my software to download the new iTunes 10 yesterday, which I did, but it’s got some strange nasty thing that breaks Outlook – Outlook opens for [...]



  • Air Raid Shelters In Greenwich Park

    • When someone mentions the words ‘crop marks’ I tend to think of lost Anglo-Saxon villages somewhere in the west country, shown up for the first time in 1000 years by grainy black and white photographs taken from a bi-plane in 1935. This, folks, is a modern version. It’s taken from one of the cranes working on [...]



  • Greenwich Podcast

    • Just listening to the first-ever Greenwich Podcast, made by local production company Testbed (they do a lot of stuff for R4…) They most flatteringly asked Yours Truly to contribute… Find it here



  • We Never Closed

    • Bet you got all excited there, thinking I was going to talk about Greenwich’s own version of the Windmill Theatre. And, if indeed there was a saucy girlie show going on in Greenwich during the Blitz, I want to hear about it, okay? But actually this statement is probably the one thing that Greenwich Royal Observatory [...]



  • Market Planning Enquiry

    • Well, folks, we’ve got to that moment. The frankly undemocratic, going-over-the-council’s head appeal by Greenwich Hospital over the redevelopment of Greenwich market into some kind of shameful pastiche of a ’heritage site’ that seems to turn the market itself into a sideshow, demolishes historic buildings and involves a 100 bedroom hotel when there are already many town centre [...]



  • Sunset on the Smoking Arcade

    • Okay I’ve been wrestling for too long with the subject I was going to tackle this morning. It’s beaten me – for today – and work awaits. It will be back, I promise, but for now I’m going to share with you some fruits of a early evening late summer walk I took over the [...]



  • Favourite Front gardens (15)

    • I’ve just realised that I haven’t found any new favourite front gardens at all this year. There just doesn’t seem to have been the exuberance of previous years. But this one, in Mauritius Road, stopped me in my tracks a few days ago. Anyone who remembers previous Phantom favourites will know I don’t care what size, [...]



  • Greenwich Wildlife (8)

    • Haven’t had a Greenwich Wildlife pic for ages but there I was just walking along, and there was something I rarely see in the countryside – a little grasshopper.  To be honest I don’t know much about insects, especially grasshoppers, but this splendid fellow was about three centimetres long (not counting those magnificent feelers) and not going anywhere [...]