FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON

• " Two Good Reasons" From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (643 days old)

  T'was aroundabout the summer of 2000, upon my return to N. London - tail well between legs - from 6 years exile in sunny Scotland and a tale of two ladies, one most dear to my heart, both lost to men … more

• Ye Fear and Ye Loathinge in old London town (Pt5) From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (847 days old)

  Transcribed from Tobias Smollett's " Humphry Clinker " - a hilarious 18th C account of life in the grand metropolis. *** With the sharp sensitivity of " a man without skin" Tobias Smollett humor… more

• Ye Fear and Ye Loatheing in Olde London town ( Pt.4) From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (849 days old)

  Transcribed from Tobias Smollett's " Humphry Clinker " - a hilarious 18th C account of life in the grand metropolis. *** With the sharp sensitivity of " a man without skin" Tobias Smollett humor… more

• Ye Fear & Ye Loatheing in Olde London Town (Pt 3) From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (850 days old)

  Transcribed from Tobias Smollett's " Humphry Clinker " - a hilarious 18th C account of life in the grand metropolis. *** With the sharp sensitivity of " a man without skin" Tobias Smollett hum… more

• Ye Fear and Ye Loatheing in Olde London toon PT. 2 From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (854 days old)

  Transcribed from Tobias Smollett's " Humphry Clinker " - a hilarious 18th C account of life in the grand metropolis. Some things ne'r change. ******* With the sharp sensitivity of " a man wit… more

• Ye Fear & Ye Loatheing in Olde London Town Pt. 1 From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (859 days old)

  Transcribed from Tobias Smollett's " Humphry Clinker " - a hilarious 18th C account of life in the grand metropolis. Some things ne'r change. *************************** With the sharp sensit… more

• Albany Street. From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (910 days old)

  New entry's been a long time coming - apologies folks, the Viagra must have been from a bad batch ;) Seriously. Yes where was I..... ah yes... Albany Street. **************************** Circ… more

• Whiteleys From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (970 days old)

  . . .that epitome of central London shopping excellence, just north of Hyde Park and yapping at the heels of Mr Al Fayed's Harrods, was close to yet another temp' residence for YT in the early 1990s. … more

• Drilling for Gold From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1017 days old)

  Just a little ditty on my vast experience in various London dentistry torture chambers over the years. Would it be mere flights of fancy if I were to convey to you about the Blackheath dentist who … more

• Some pre-festive diary scribblings From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1070 days old)

  Rampant stress in the air. Sizzzzzzle Impossible to move hardly a foot without someone in my space. Roads jammed and fuming to hell with agitated Xmas shoppers. Served in shops - some s… more

• If there's anything you want. . . / Blue Monday From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1094 days old)

  During my in-car radio & stereo system-fitting earnings heyday ( surely that should be "hay day", as in "making hay while the sun shines" day, OED? ) during the mid-eighties, comprising mad-dashin… more

• Con-Safe From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1122 days old)

  "Con Safe 5 to control, do you read me control?" . .so droned the peak-capped manager into the black housebrick cellphone whilst driving his way to Lazard Bros merchant bank in the City, circa the mid… more

• Sheilas' Wheels From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1159 days old)

  NB. This is a longish post, divided into three parts with an epilogue added. View one or two parts at a time or scroll to your start point from previous visit ( or read right through of course, if you… more

• Black and White Beverley ( and shades inbetween) From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1211 days old)

  About one year on from the traumatic Monitor Lizards episode and again on a weary return from work one fine summer's eve' ( oh yes, life's cosh threatens when exhaustion beckons ); I turned the key in… more

• The Reptileophile Rapist of old Shooters Hill From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1237 days old)

  Aroundabout the mid-eighties, that heady time of housebrick mobile telephones, champers-guzzling hooray Henry yuppies and the truly dreaful New Romantics; there stood a freshly purchased 3-bed Victori… more

• Summer in the City From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1254 days old)

  The all-powerful sun is now at its head-baking sunblock-inducing zenith and the city is swarming. Just as those nifty red ants get all hot and bothered and start pointlessly excavating sand up through… more

• The Slaughterman From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1267 days old)

  Wading way back in time - well it feels like it - to the days of in-car entertainment fitting, another of the car franchise establishments I frequented was the Toyota Clockhouse garage in East Barnet … more

• The Enforcer From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1317 days old)

  Thinking back to a previous post, Arthur Lives Today (see tags), I mentally stumble upon another cheeky chappy employed by Jack, the then proprietor of London Car >:XX in his Liverpool Street railway … more

• Bill Booze From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1374 days old)

  Bill was an amiable and jovial wee chappie from Lanark( 5ft 3" - wee), in his mid-thirties who worked as an assistant manager in an engineering design office in Hendon, N. London, in the eighties. I w… more

• Scam Central From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1383 days old)

  London seems to be the 21st C. home of the international scrounger/fraudster/scamster/freeloader. Anyone who has read Dicken's Our Mutual Friend, a vivid account of early 19th century London life,… more

• Mr Know-all From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1401 days old)

  Returning in mind to the Finchley Rd Mac Donalds, scene of no 1 of my Three Lesbian Misunderstandings post from last year; another encounter from within the hideous confines of the cooked cow lips joi… more

• Upstairs Downstairs From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1461 days old)

  Some memoirs of apartment life down the years, as I wandered from one to another. Specifically some characters and events from above and/or below my residences. Spiced up to the max, natch. The man… more

• Dunhill Chris From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1480 days old)

  Woolwich, SE London, is pronounced " wool -itch ". Funny that, to start with, I used to muse to myself. This garage/Car sales plot mentioned in "Brian" ( see previous) was some set-up. To describe… more

• Brian From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1492 days old)

  " He's not a lucky man, isn't Brian". So said the biker mechanic at another of the garages I used to attend to rig out radios and CDs and such like. This one in Woolwich, SE London, that centre of r… more

• Daisy The Whore From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1504 days old)

  . . .is no more" were the chorus lyrics on some forgotten eighties rock band's song that caught my attention some two years after the event. Somehow, I knew they were referring to the selfsame Daisy, … more

• SCARRED FOR LIFE From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1523 days old)

  A little security guard number that I did to fill in a couple of months during summer 1990 saw me posted as supervisor on nights at the LT bus factory in Ealing. Probably shut down by now, what with t… more

• ARTHUR LIVES TODAY From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1533 days old)

  " Another day another peanut eh Arth'? " I would jest to the odd jobs man at the end of the working day in the converted railway arch in the city in the early 1990s. " Ha" he would mutter and walk o… more

• A LONDON TRILOGY From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1548 days old)

  Just in the past couple of days, three recurring themes have. . . . .recurred. It's about time I blogged them out of my system I thought at the times, so I biro'd some temporary tatoos on the back of… more

• CONFESSION TIME; WHAT I DID TO DEREK AND RON From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1556 days old)

  Sometime in the Yuppie 80's and whilst I was living in a huge Victorian mansion in Compayne Gardens in West Hampstead, I came to know two co-habiting gents, English Derek and Scots Ron, who happened … more

• LONDON ACCOMODATION From MichaelStMark ^Pro in FEAR & LOATHING IN LONDON (1573 days old)

  Well I feel that I've more or less seen it all over the years I've lived here. What triggers this blog however were the arrest scenes of the alleged 21/7 would be suicide bombers. These Peabody housin… more

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