May 1st - May 7th 2006
Sunday Make me wet
Saturday Wapping
Friday Lord Broughshane
Thursday Shadwell
Wednesday Murder: 3
Tuesday Wapping
Monday Moving
Sunday 7th May
Whichever way you slice it, there's definitely something surreal about taking a shower halfway up one of London's tallest buildings.
The thought of all that water travelling all that way up, in order to run over one's naked body, before running all the way down again...it makes me go quite queer.
But showering in the office gym is just one of the strategems to which I have been forced to resort by my continuing lack of domestic hot water.
(Yup, still no boiler: I just can't seem to summon up the enthusiasm to call yet more people into my kitchen to frown and announce they'd like to be paid at least five times my daily rate to perform what is, when all's said and done, call me a snob, grunt-work.)
However queer I might be taken, however, rest assured: I shall bear fully in mind at all the times the salutary fate of ex-HSBC banker Peter Lewis.
Saturday 6th May
Wapping, Spring 2006
Friday 5th May
Obituary Watch: Lord Broughshane
The jovial personality of Ken Davison (as he was before becoming the 3rd Lord Broughshane late in life) was a fixture at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for many years..
He was christened Kensington, as his father had been Mayor and MP for the borough - though to his friends he was always Ken..
His appointment in 1962 to manage the Friends of Covent Garden was an inspired one..He formed a coterie of opera and ballet lovers who were enthusiastic and loyal.
Davison was always keen to encourage young dancers and singers. He supported the choreographic group run by his friend, the Royal Ballet dancer Leslie Edwards, and arranged for small-scale works to be performed on Sunday evenings.
He was unmarried.
Thursday 4th May
Shadwell, Spring 2006
Wednesday 3rd May
Stories for the website come to us from the paper in a somewhat random fashion such that, without sight of a proof, its often difficult to know quite what they're referring to.
Hence my slight confusion when, ostensibly dealing with details of the foreign criminal masterminds seeded back into the community by Charles Clarke, I found myself reading what appeared to be the football results:
Murder: 3 Manslaughter: 2 Rape: 9 Sex offences: 5
Tuesday 2nd May
Wapping, Spring 2006
Monday 1st May
Having spent rather more hours than is entirely sensible this weekend on various gay dance floors (courtesy of David's Big Gay Birthday), I'm indebted to the BBC for this live demonstration of some of the moves I may have missed...
......previous week
