Archive for January, 2008
30 January, 2008 – Fun with Flats
Today was a very successful day. I met with Victoria from the Shoreditch branch of Foxtons Estate Lettings today. If you are looking for a flat in London, I can not praise her enough and you should ring her immediately.
In New York, I was pretty much a Craigslister, though my most recent apartment there was [...]
Our Own Beckham?
There was a news segment today about the Super Bowl press conference where the reporter proposed to Tom Brady.
The female anchor was explaining to her male counterpart that Tom Brady is the American Beckham. And then she went on and on about Beckham, and how brave the journalist was to have asked Brady to marry [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Now we’re cooking with charcoal.It was my first full day in the London office. I’m up and running computer and phone-wise, and everyone is lovely. My office window looks out over the Broadway and the bus depot. I must say, for an out-of-towner, the glimmer of double-deckers shooting in and out of periphery is very [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Sunday, 27 January, 2008
Had a lovely day, uneventful and lovely. Rode to Embankment and crossed the bridge to Southwark. I visited the Southbank Centre, where I’m sure to spend a great many evenings. It’s a stunning complex with three music halls and is loosely connected with the film institute and other arts organizations along the Thames. It’s a vibrant [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Saturday, 26 January, 2008 – The Becky has Landed
So this begins my diary of life in London. I feel safe in refraining from calling it a blog, as it is being written in a spanking new Original Alice commonplace book purchased today from the British Library. With all the adjustments I’ll be making and with the new categories I’m to fall in (still [...]
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