Category Archives: brass monkeys

>A Deep And Dark December

Posted on December 24, 2010 by

>There’s a Yorkshire dialect song that we used to sing at school. I can’t remember the title, or much else – just the line “Nivver bin warm sin ah left me bed” – ‘warm’ pronounced to rhyme with ‘calm’, obviously. … Continue reading →

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>Eastern Promise

Posted on November 30, 2010 by

>Some pictures from a foot-stampingly cold tour around part of the Olympic site’s perimeter on the Stratford/Bow frontier. It doesn’t look it, but Europe’s biggest building site is nearly finished, ahead of schedule and under budget. I’ve not always been … Continue reading →

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