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February 4th 1999 |
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Webcam in the Comic Relief office This webcam linked to the website for Comic Relief at the time, and provided a picture every 10 minutes of the workforce beavering away to make comedy happen. We all thought it was super hi-tech at the time. |
Dave's desk, in the study, West Hampstead |
February 3rd 1999 |
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Bramble, North London Yet another cat picture! This cat wasn’t much more than a kitten and he belonged to Karen Nichols (You can see a picture of Karen taken on the 22nd Jan ’09 in the archives). And that’s her arm dangling the mouse. |
Helen Womersley, Trafalgar Square ...after NOT going to see the Annie Leibovitz photography exhibition (it finished on Sunday). |
February 2nd 1999 |
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Fred, Finchley Road A blurry picture of the biggest of the four cats who lived with us at 471a Finchley Road. Fred was big and soppy, an indulged nephew of the cat family. |
Snowman, West Hampstead The most snow we've had in London for 19 years |
February 1st 1999 |
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Sainsbury’s at Finchley Road Not much to say about this picture, it’s the flower stand at the supermarket. It probably appealed to me at the time because it was colourful and spring-like. Looking at it now I’m struck by all the cellophane wrapping as much as by the garish cheerfulness of the plants. Maybe when you live in a city with little or no access to a garden, plants en masse like this become a bit of an oasis. I don’t remember ever buying plants from the supermarket back then, they would probably not have lasted very long and besides, PH grew flowers and tomatoes up on the roof of our flat in old chimney pots. |
John Gay 'England Observed' exhibition at Kenwood House This exhibition of photographs opened on Friday and goes on until the end of March. More details here and a review here. |
January 31st 1999 |
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Sweets at The Collectors’ Museum, South Bank This is a lovely picture! What is not to like about a fabulous arrangement of sweet wrappers? This was a temporary museum of museums that was down on the South Bank in an old warehouse for the first few months of 1999. It displayed peoples’ amateur collections of things like rubbers, free toys from cereal packets and retro sweets like this one. |
Ruth Robb buys a hat, Oxford Street |
January 30th 1999 |
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Stage Door, Covent Garden Part of London’s back street life. I think this appealed to me because I used to enjoy seeing the theatres spill out their crowds, and thinking about all the over-wrought, concentrated, acted emotion that must have gone on up during the last 2 or 3 hours while I had probably been in a pub somewhere. |
Dave watching My Dad the Serial Killer on Channel 4 |
January 29th 1999 |
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Telephone boxes on Kilburn High Road, Getting a cab home I’ve no idea why I was getting a cab home from Kilburn, except that sometimes if I had been out drinking in the West End I used to try and walk all the way home, and I may well have walked this way and then got worn out by Kilburn. This seems to be the most logical explanation, and the bright, slightly disorientating glare of the telephone boxes seems to make me want to remember that this was how it was that night. |
Pile of doll babies, antenatal class, Kilburn |
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