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December 9th 1999 |
December 9th 2009 |
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Hot water bunny Where would civilisation be without the novelty hot woter bottle cover, eh? |
Ariadne Birnberg on the path, in the park |
December 8th 1999 |
December 8th 2009 |
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Sam Archer, 471 Finchley Road Sam taking his ease and having a fag at the kitchen table in the flat. Looks as though the fridge is being defrosted to his right. Maybe that’s why he was hanging out in the kitchen, though somehow that seems unlikely – probably Polly had done it! Seems odd, ten years on, to see someone smoking in a kitchen. Don’t think that would happen much these days as I know less and less people who smoke, or rather more and more who have given up. |
Dave, Curly and our new table |
December 7th 1999 |
December 7th 2009 |
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Christmas tree, Hanover Square I remember thinking this was a pretty spectacular tree. I can’t remember why I was there though, or what I was doing. Maybe some Christmas shopping. |
After my Swine-Flu jab |
December 6th 1999 |
December 6th 2009 |
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Big house, Hampstead Hampstead is very atmospheric in December –it’s like walking around the illustration on a tin of Quality Street. |
Girl feeding squirrel, Queen’s Park |
December 5th 1999 |
December 5th 2009 |
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Me, Dave and Margareta Pracatan, Clive James Show We recorded the End of the Millennium show well before the end of the Millennium to avoid any glitches associated with live TV, and a knackering weekend it was too. Luckily for me most of my work was done by then – the clips had been compiled and cleared and I was there more for fun that anything else. And as you can see I had rather too much of it. Got steaming drunk at the party afterwards and projectile vomited out of the door of a moving hire car on the way home. Good night but I wouldn’t want to do it now… Margarita Pracatan was Clive’s habitual guest on the show. Visit her website here I love you! |
Dexter’s first swing, Hampstead |
December 4th 1999 |
December 4th 2009 |
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Millennium wheel, SE1 Nearly up; the big wheel on the South Bank – still there today and for many years to come I hope. |
Abandoned house, Mapesbury |
December 3rd 1999 |
December 3rd 2009 |
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Portobello Road I liked the repeat of these Ian Dury and the Blockhead’s posters and of course I could never think about Ian Dury without remembering how me and my siblings used to act out “Hit me with your rhythm stick’ when we were kids. (It was a number 1 in 1979 selling over a million copies and pretty much a playground anthem where we grew up) Ian Dury died three months after I took this picture but a couple of years later I filmed an interview with some of the remaining Blockheads about that hit – Ian Dury was clearly still much missed. |
Hyacinths, Willesden Green |
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