Articles tagged ‘News’
Muggers on the backfoot?
By BootsnAll | February 25th, 2004 |
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With street crime in London at an all time high you’d think the obvious solution would be to prise more police out of their patrol cars or redeploy part of the battalion that spend their day manning speed traps, but the Met. Police have been far more creative, fixing speakers up lampposts in high risk [...]
White out
By BootsnAll | January 29th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
This country just can’t handle weather anymore. For the past week the newspapers and tv have been going on about a ‘big’ arctic storm heading our way and when it finally arrived everything came to a grinding halt .
Yesterday had been a beautiful sunny day, a little cold but nothing too bad and it was [...]
Will work for food
By BootsnAll | January 19th, 2004 | Comments Off
One of the benefits of a BootsnAll stray dropping by, is that they might cook you breakfast.
And by the way it was deee- licious . I knew she’d be good for something.
Travel show
By BootsnAll | January 18th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I went along to the Daily Telegraph’s Adventure Travel Show in Kensington to watch Jen Leo in action for the first time.
I don’t know if ‘Be Prepared’ is her motto, but she certainly was yesterday. Writing samples, brief resumes of her stuff, signed copies of her book, she had plenty of each to hand [...]
Guess who’s here
By BootsnAll | January 17th, 2004 | 7 Comments »
Its saturday morning and I’m just getting ready to go to the Adventure Travel and Sports show at Olympia with Jen Leo, who arrived here thursday night from Belguim bearing chocolates and beer.
Jen’s getting set to blitz the exhibitors today., I hope they’re ready.
How much?
By BootsnAll | January 10th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
If you’re visiting London, make sure you get your weekly travelcard rather than pay for each trip on the tube or you’ll have no money left.
Sticking to his guns
By BootsnAll | January 6th, 2004 | 7 Comments »
I don’t suppose for one minute Tony Blair is trying to blow smoke up our arses, but what an amazing turn around.
Three years ago he kicks Ken Livingstone out of the Labour Party for standing against the official Labour candidate, saying Livingstone will be a disaster for London. Livingstone won the election and set about [...]
Travel Show
By BootsnAll | December 30th, 2003 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a link Jen Leo emailed me, about a major travel show at London’s Olympia taking place in the middle of January.
Jen’s giving up Belgian chocolates and beer for a few days and coming over for the show, so its guaranteed to be good.
Tired of London, tired of life?
By BootsnAll | December 16th, 2003 | 1 Comment »
Gwyneth Paltrow’s been talking about what makes her dislike living in London.
Basically the weather sucks and everything’s expensive. So she is like the rest of us even making ten million a movie.
No free rides
By BootsnAll | November 16th, 2003 | 2 Comments »
George W arrives on tuesday and a lot of the natives are getting restless. Mayor Ken Livingstone is getting in his cheap shot early, insisting that the Presidential limo pays the congestion charge when it goes through town.
I think Dubya will have Laura pop into the nearest corner shop to pay the fiver.
