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High Society: Melody Chapter 4
Melody’s face couldn’t tolerate a squint; squinting made her look confused and slightly demented. And so she sat in Margarine’s new ultra-modern office in Bloomsbury, so busy not squinting at the bright cavalcade of sunlight streaming in from the uncovered floor-to-ceiling windows, that she barely understood a word her manager…
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Evans and Peel Detective Agency
The broad tells me to get to Earls Court station at six. Says she’s got me a surprise… that it’s got something with ‘Bainbridge’. She takes me down a side street off the beaten track. Just as I’m thinking, “What the hell is going on?” we stop outside ‘Evans and…
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Rethinking Intelligence
Do we need to re-think our notion of ‘intelligence?’ How many times have you heard people describe David Beckham as ‘thick?’ Einstein is clever, David Beckham is thick, is how it seems to me to be the attitude towards intelligence. We don’t need to question Einstein’s intelligence, obviously, but I…
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High Society: Joe
“I say it’s awful cloak and dagger all this isn’t it?” Charlie said down his phone as he arrived at the old dilapidated Waterloo railway tunnels. Despite being just a stone’s throw away from Waterloo main station he could barely hear a thing anymore. It was cold too. “Where are…
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Ridley Road Market Bar
(Image belongs to Ridley Road Market Bar) Ridley Road Market Bar 43 Ridley Road, Dalston, E8 2NP Reviewed by Carolyn Owlett www.facebook.com/ridleyroad I have been putting off writing a review of Ridley Road Market Bar for some time now. It’s not because I don’t think it is very good but…