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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I had the pleasure of meeting Shelley and her two lovely boys this morning after I was recommended by two of her NCT friends who I have photographed previously. Her eldest Matthew is 21 months and her baby is 3 months old....so she certainly has her hands full! Matthew was very lively and I had to chase him round the garden kicking balls most of the time! We managed to get this lovely soulful look...
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JamesCousins.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Last night I attended the Enterprising Roehampton awards at Roehampton University. During my comments at the beginning of the awards I reflected that it hasn’t been a good year. We are the longest recession on record and while Wandsworth may be escaping the very worst effects we’ve still see unemployment rise significantly. Most disappointing was [...] Theoretically related posts: Weekly...
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JamesCousins.com (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Blogged: Tweets for week ending 2009-11-08 http://bit.ly/2JXOYr # YouTubed Battersea Park fireworks 2009: Battersea Park fireworks 2009 The climax of Wandsworth Counc.. http://bit.ly/49dNxg # Blogged: Battersea Park fireworks http://bit.ly/4cRRz0 # There's something terribly lonely about being the only man at a busy playgroup. # Another thing about being the only man at a playgroup: mothers should...
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Stitch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I had thought it was Streatham - but in fact it is technically Tooting. Close to Tooting Lido. We'll get to know the route well over the next few months. The Furzedown Centre on Moyser Road is a lively base for various groups of 'older' people. Restart 50+, a group of retired professional Bangladeshi women, are keen and their leader Ferdous Rahman has galvanised them into action. The first focus group...
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I got an email from Clare and Simon a few months ago saying that they wanted to buy some gift vouchers for their Mum for her 60th birthday. Obviously I'm always pleased when I get a new client but I was even more pleased than normal because I went to school with them both and their parents are very good friends with my parents and even came to my wedding! It's always a real treat to photograph people...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Full Name: Stuart King Age: 38 From: Born in London, 1970 PPC for: Putney (Tory majority 1,776) Website: www.stuartking.net Selection Result: June 2007: I don’t recall the exact numbers, but it was with over 70% of the vote in the first round. I was a local candidate, a former councillor and invested a lot of time calling round on members. It paid dividends. Member of the Labour Party since:...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Another Roehampton story in last week's Wandsworth Guardian (along with the collapse of the Conservatives' Danebury Avenue demolition plans) was another success story for local policing. Getting more police resources focussed on the Lennox estate, at the top of Priory Lane, has been something I've been working on for months - I reported on it in this special edition of the Putney Paper and it was an...
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diamind geezer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Tube geek (27) Borough How many tube stations are there in each London borough? Lots. Or maybe none. Westminster (32) ; Brent (21) ; Camden, Ealing (17) ; Hammersmith & Fulham, Hillingdon (15) ; Barnet (13) ; Kensington & Chelsea, Redbridge (12) ; City of London, Harrow (11) ; Islington (10) ; Lambeth, Tower Hamlets (9) ; [Essex] (8) ; Haringey, Hounslow (7); Newham, Southwark, Wandsworth (6)...
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London Reconnections (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From Sunday, travellers will be able to use Oyster PAYG on Southern services from Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park to London Victoria. Confirmation of this can be found on the Southern website here . Sadiq Khan also makes mention of it in his latest email to Tooting constituents, which makes interesting reading. To steal a phrase from Railway Eye , "Sadiq says":...
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SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Postal workers have been bearing the brunt of the public’;s anger since beginning to take strike action. They are being blamed for the late delivery of mail and being portrayed in the press as the ones in the wrong. But, what you have to remember here is that postal workers are not greedy, well paid [...]
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
There's a scene in the book and film "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham where the defendant in a civil trial has to admit that they wrote to the victim denying their claim for a health insurance payout in these terms: "On seven prior occasions we have denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth time. You must be stupid, stupid, stupid." I have to say that this is how...
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JamesCousins.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I attended the Regeneration and Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee as Executive Member last night. The meeting was largely focused on community safety matters, and was one of the longer ones for a while, perhaps because there were some interesting items on the agenda. You can see the full agenda on the [...] Theoretically related posts: Recession kills off regeneration plans for Roehampton...
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PR Geek (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Today, Boris Johnson launched Oxford Street’s new ‘scramble crossing’ by banging a giant gong. The diagonal pedestrian crossing has been heralded by many of the news outlets as a copy of the famous walkway in Shibuya, Tokyo. The Metro even went as far as naming it, slightly ambiguously, as a ‘ first ’. Luckily in almost all the comments under the stories, the general public...
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Real cycling (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Copenhagen is a model cycling capital, as readers of the excellent Copenhagenize blog will be aware. I was there last month, and this week I'll be making a few comparisons between there and London. The first thing that strikes you as you stroll out from Copenhagen railway station into the city centre is the sheer amount of cyclists. Billions and billions of them. (In London, by contrast, the first...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Up until a few days ago, Conservatives in Roehampton were delivering a newsletter containing the story above promoting their dreadful demolition plans for Danebury Avenue. Earlier this week the plans were dropped. Talk about the right hand not knowing what the far right hand is doing! Particularly notable is the quote from one of the Tory candidates for Roehampton: "We need to make sure that...
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