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July 15th 1999 |
July 15th 2009 |
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Camden, from 2020 Television I really enjoyed working for this company, even though I was only there for a few weeks. Meredith Chambers was the director of the documentary I was employed on, a celebration of the life and works of Oliver Reed. I remember there was one computer in the whole building with access to the internet and we all had to take turns using it. |
Dexter helps change the duvet cover |
July 14th 1999 |
July 14th 2009 |
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Camden, morning before work Before I worked there I’d never seen Camden at this time in the morning. This rail bridge crossed over the old stables and the message on it “ I wish I worked in Hampstead” often made me smile when I came this way. Just to the left of the picture a trendy pub called the Hawthorne Arms sprang up between ’99 and last year, when it burned down, causing much over excitement amongst hipsters. |
Horrible Worms, West Hampstead |
July 13th 1999 |
July 13th 2009 |
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The Freemason’s Arms, Hampstead I’m sure I had persuaded RT to meet me here after work one evening. It’s a great pub with a massive garden and in all my fourteen years of living in London I’ve frequented it. I have hazy memories of drinking here on the weekend that all day drinking was extended to Sundays....and there have been other excessive booze-ups in its garden. Not so much these days though. |
Kavita Jindal meets Dexter Robb |
July 12th 1999 |
July 12th 2009 |
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Short-cut, Hampstead The lovely thing about working in Camden was that I could walk to and from work, this short cut was on my route. Since 1999 the path has been tidied up and tarmaced and looks a lot more fancy. I can’t take it anymore though because the gravel at the bottom isn’t very pushchair friendly. |
The corner where a couple of weeks ago Dexter had a meltdown It still gives me the chills when I walk past it now, but thankfully we’ve had no more pram-based tantrums since then. |
July 11th 1999 |
July 11th 2009 |
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My bed, 471a Finchley Road Looking at this picture now I’m struck by two facts – 1) that there is a picture of Miffy the rabbit on the top shelf and my four month old son Dexter likes Miffy, and 2) That Dave and I went to see a flat today that we might rent, and somehow comparing my home of ten years ago with the place we might be moving to in the next few months is a brain stretch. |
Ties, Teignmouth Road, NW2 |
July 10th 1999 |
July 10th 2009 |
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Churchyard, Hampstead. NW3 This church is in a chocolate box street in Hampstead village, on my walk home from Camden to Finchley Road. It’s a beautiful place and the graveyard across the street has some wonderful graves and statutory. Being in Hampstead is nothing like living in London. |
Bird with a full beak, West Hampstead |
July 9th 1999 |
July 9th 2009 |
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Restaurant, Hampstead. NW3 When I took this picture I’d never actually been inside the Weng Wah house. Now, as several of you can vouch, I have not only been inside but I have Kareoked the night away in the upstairs room. I sang ‘O Bla di Oh Bla da’ by The Beatles. Ah Memories. |
Auntie Helen and Dexter have tea together after the rigours of ‘Baby Bounce’, Gusto café in West Hampstead |
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