I did it!!! Despite all the procrastination, lack of training and abundance of excuses, last Sunday I completed the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon with no injuries and with a slow but steady time of 2 hours and 35 minutes. And, I reached my target… Read More
It’s suddenly summer! This time last week, I was wearing scarves and wellies and asking if we could put the heating on at work. Today it’s properly hot – in fact (don’t kill me) almost TOO hot. I never cease to be amazed at how… Read More
Dear Queen of Parks I am a young professional (male) working as a structural engineer just of _____ street. The flat looks great but was wondering how long it would take to get to ____ street from the flat? Hope to hear from you soon.… Read More
I have written here earlier about coincidences and how they seem to abound in London. Here’s another one for you. Recently we went to see the play Six Degrees of Separation at the Old Vic. As I waited for the others I got chatting to… Read More
Email from R: ‘ … Will explain over flossing some time (resolution is to drink less in the week so I thought we could substitute flossing for drinking as a social engagement)’ I can imagine ‘flossing’ becoming a code word for all sorts of illicit… Read More
This morning I saw the woman who lives opposite emerge from her house dressed up like a Michelin man, calmly scrape all the snow from her bike saddle and handlebars, and cycle away. That’s hard core. In the newsagents’, a man with a Liverpool accent… Read More
Yesterday when I was in Chalk Farm on my way to running club, I bumped into a girl I used to work with about, terrifyingly, 7 years ago. It was even more of a coincidence as she doesn’t live in the area – she lives… Read More
Just returned from 5 days in New York. I heart NY. I remember my first visit there in 1997 … I was spending the summer in Boston working in the Famous Atlantic Fish Company as a hostess. This makes it sound as though I was… Read More
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