Live Camera phone pic of the day.

Only in London. A traditional Tea and Camera Shop! They don't sell coffee, but you can buy a Leica or a Rolleiflex box camera for £500!


HINT: The shop is in Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia. They really know tea and they really know photography! Rathbone Place is only a few yards behind Oxford Street, but a little 18th century oasis with some great pubs. And, of course, the starting point for the London Literary Pub Crawl.

Location:Rathbone Place,Paddington,United Kingdom

Camera phone pic of the day. Old and new

The Charles Dickens Pub with the Shard in the background.


HINT: Southwark (pronounced Sutherk) is much more now than the old broken down desolate warehouses of 20 years ago. But apart from Borough Market, Shakespeare’s Globe and the wine lovers fun house that is Vinopolis, there’s not a whole lot for the tourist. Although there are some ‘genuine’ boozers. And of course, The Shard, Europe’s tallest building. It is about to open a viewing platform.

As we know, the real Charles Dickens now drinks in Soho, with the London Literary Pub Crawl!

Location:Union Street, Southwark

St George's Day random pic.

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This is Pete, who happened to be walking round Smithfield Rotunda when he was grabbed and asked to pose for this St George’s Day pic. We forgot to ask what Pete does for a living, but he wears ties and red roses rather well.

HINT The British are fairly low-key when it comes to celebrations, although we are getting better and we liked the Olympics last year. The Cross of St George (and indeed St George himself) are shared with other countries . In fact, according to Wiki, St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, and Moscow, as well as a wide range of professions, organisations and disease sufferers.

We fly his flag though and particularly at big national football games. And never call football soccer in the UK. It’s not soccer. It’s football. Thank you.

London Camera pic of the Day

Good for jewellery - and Machine Guns!




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Creative Theatre Producing. Oh, and Wordpress...

Right. There's a couple of my mates trying to get theatre productions on and having varying degrees of success. I started a new blog called 'Creative Theatre Producing' but I might as well post on here. Although perhaps the title of this blog may not be of much use to those looking for information about putting on a show. Whaddaythink? And can anyone tell me if Wordpress is better than Blogger? Is it hard to learn? More importantly, is it worth the effort? Does Wordpress have extra features? That's a lot of questions!

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Location:London Town

A Good Deal in Kent

The Royal Hotel. Not too hard to spot

We thought we'd leave the glorious hustle and bustle of Soho and London and celebrate Mickey's 40th Birthday with a trip to the coast. Mickey works on the National Theatre's production of Warhorse at the New London Theatre in Drury Lane, so he's always in town. Annie (who finished The MouseTrap last year, but lives in Sussex) used her legendary planning powers and arranged for the gang to spend the night in Deal in Kent. Where? Yep, Deal. And it's a little gem. Charles Hawtrey of 'Carry On' film fame lived there, and apart from Marc getting the usual "It's you off Eastenders isn't it!" treatment from a couple of youffs in the train station, it was a very pleasant, if somewhat wet and windy little town.

Danny hard at Managing Things.

We stopped at the Royal Hotel on Beach Street, which is, yes, by the beach.  It's run by Shepherd Neame,a good old English Brewery, and Danny, the manager, was a delight.

The town pier isn't the prettiest we've seen, but it used to be a working pier, so that's okay, and there is a coffee shop at then end. We spent most of the afternoon in a cosy little pub on the front and me and a few hardy souls stopped in the boozer to watch the England Rugby team being vaguely embarrassed - I think the word is routed - by Wales in the final game of the 6 Nations. Then to the hotel for dinner, a late night, and Sunday lunch in a pub called The Bohemian. Well, we had to go there 

really, didn't we. We were rewarded by various delights including a regular who had a pet pig called Rodney. Rodney Trotter, obviously. Oh, we did laugh!

Rodney. Rodney Trotter, obviously

I'm not sure if Deal is known for famous writers, but maybe you can let me know if it is. 

 We ended on on Sunday afternoon in Islington, via Kings Cross at a rather groovy little pub called A Hundred Crows Rising, which has a great little room upstairs and must have one of the weirdest names I've come across in a long time. Have you got any weird pub names? 

Monday we slept. A lot. Happy Birthday Mikey.

90 Not Out!

As a born and bred Brummy, I haven't been 'home' for some time. So today is pretty special because I'm back in Brum and me old man is 90! Pretty good, eh? I also bought this blogging app. So this is a bit of a test. I'm also, by the way, having long and hard thoughts about the future and particularly what I do with blogging. I'm almost considering online marketing! I know....

Anyway, here goes the test!









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Location:Ravenshaw Lane,,United Kingdom