Tag Archives: london

St Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 17, 2015 by nicdempsey

On Sunday, Oli (and his gaelic football club) were in the St Patrick’s Day Parade. It makes me laugh, ’cause my Dad didn’t encourage us to do anything Irish at all (and Ma isn’t) but Ben and Lu’s next door … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on October 24, 2014 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I’m really glad to get to the end of this week because tonight I’m going to see Old Crow Medicine Show at the Roundhouse. I’m so excited I might actually burst with it… There are quite a few … Continue reading →

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Acceptable behaviour

Posted on July 31, 2014 by nicdempsey

Despite lots on at work and a migraine this week, I am feeling remarkably cheerful. It could be because I have most of next week off and I’m going to spend quite a bit of the next couple of weeks, … Continue reading →

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Sometimes life gives you a smack around the head!

Posted on June 14, 2014 by nicdempsey

To say I woke up on the wrong side of bed yesterday morning would be the understatement of the year. I woke up hot, sore, headachey and extremely grumpy and I knew it. I’ve been spending some time this week … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on January 10, 2014 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! This week’s links! 1) If you want to curb immigration, enforce the minimum wage. It won’t please the Daily Mail but it does make a lot of sense. 2) PJ Harvey’s guest editing of the Today Programme has … Continue reading →

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Abstract

Posted on October 8, 2013 by nicdempsey

  One of the cameras is not happy, this is a photo I took on Sunday at Richmond, I do quite like the effect but it should have looked more like this…   I like both photos and it reminded … Continue reading →

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Growing up a Londoner

Posted on August 8, 2013 by nicdempsey

The school holidays have begun, even if I didn’t know that, the number of parents and small children on the train in the morning would have given it away! I’m (at least a fourth) generation Londoner (great grandparents, grandad, mother … Continue reading →

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Chiswick House

Posted on July 24, 2013 by nicdempsey

Last Sunday Ma and I hopped on a bus and went to Chiswick House. We spent quite a portion of the day kicking ourselves for not going sooner..  The walled kitchen garden which is run by volunteers was having an … Continue reading →

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City walk – Picture post

Posted on June 25, 2013 by nicdempsey

A couple of weeks ago we went for a walk. It was the weekend that we had ‘summer’. We walked from The Oxo Tower to Borough Market   From Borough we walked over London Bridge and down Monument, where I … Continue reading →

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Life happening..

Posted on June 18, 2013 by nicdempsey

The weather is being weird. It’s warm, it’s grey and it rains a bit.  The Met Office is promising hot and sunny until Wednesday when the heat will ’cause rain. Lovely. The Met Office is also having a meeting of … Continue reading →

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