Scenes from the Park #1

In normal parts of the UK, it wouldn’t be all that odd to find an abandoned car in the local park.
In some parts of the UK, it wouldn’t be odd if the abandoned car had a dead body in the boot and a roof-rack full of Vimto-flavoured ecstacy pills.
This is modern life. In fact, if [...]

Holland Park – Photo of the Week

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This sums up Holland Park…
Unmodernised garage with pitch roof and double doors, £100,000.
I like that the description claims that it ‘…is within easy reach of the amenities on Holland Park Avenue, such as Tesco and Starbucks.’
As if there’s a garage in the whole of Britain that isn’t within easy reach of a Tesco and [...]

Holland Park Residents Demand Shepherds Bush Be Moved Further Away

Not really, but they are hopping mad about Buses.
The Royal Crescent Residents Association is fighting a plan that would see a second bus route (presumably full of poor people going to work) passing through the their Grade II listed environment.
To be fair, the southern half (quarter surely?) of Royal Cescent has become somewhat of a [...]

To The End Of The Line – Holland Park

Here’s an excerpt from To The End Of The Line – a blog by Ian Jones, which is a tour of every London Underground station…
Stepping out of Holland Park you can, ahem, smell the affluence. The building itself seems to exude a certain well-to-do mentality. It’s eerie to emerge here just one stop on from [...]

Shepherds Bush Roundabout, Blue Thing Explained

Having stared at it on and off for nearly 10 years, I thought I knew what this odd looking thing was.
Plonked on the edge of Shepherds Bush roundabout, like some giant chemical toilet, I always thought is was simply a solar-powered water feature.
Sun shines, blue water cascades. That simple.
I’ve also heard many people explain it [...]

Inside the Congestion Charge Zone

Modern life is rubbish. It makes no sense and costs a fortune.
It’s sinister too. This picture shows how people are greeted as they arrive at the bottom of Holland Park Avenue. Creepy C-Charge cameras.
The oddities of Ken Livingstone’s and Capita’s Extended London Congestion Zone are many.
Take these beautiful camera poles. The Royal Borough threatened legal [...]

Fine Dining in W11, Mister Pumpkernink’s Pizzeria

Being partially unemployed recently I’ve had time to consider the cheesy enigma, smothered in a claggy tomato paste of puzzlement, wrapped in a soggy calzone of intrigue that is the riddle of the continuing existence of Mister Pumpkernink’s Pizzeria, 116 Holland Park Avenue.
To start with, it seems so utterly out of place nestled between Lidgate’s [...]

Classy Old Kensington McDonald’s

Forget the Henry VIII suite at the Excalibur Hotel, I think I’ve just seen the classiest thing of all time. McDonalds, Kensington High Street has a player piano.
It’s actually a £15,000 Roland Grand piano, left alone to play crappy midi files, pianola-style, in order to lend an air of sophistication in a twinkling room full [...]

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