A London Country Diary

Name: A London Country Diary | Mundane Happenings from the Secret Streets of the Capital
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Mundane Happenings from the Secret Streets of the Capital

Tim Bradford(Autor*in)

Icon Books (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 3. April 2014

192 Seiten

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Intro
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
A Series of Non-Adventures
Introduction
Winter (Well, sort of late winter)
Blackstock Road
The Arsenal Cafe, Blackstock Road
Fox Rodent Hybrid Nut Fiends
The 2008 Two-Pages-Per-Day Desk Diary
How to get a Plastic Boomerang Back from your Next Door Neighbour
Flame Stool
Mr Rabbit, Caught in the Rain
Aled Up
See Shed She Said
Beautiful Lily Petals
Clissold Park Bowling Green Martial Arts Society
Show and Tell Day
Highwate Wood
Collapsing Old Buildings
Dressed for the H-Bomb
Spring (could start anywhere between January and April)
Clissold Park
Is this Spring?
The Origins of Danebottom
Posh Bloke Goes to Dublin
On the Fence
Hackney Brook and Bayern Munich
'Luscious Rendezvous'
The Magic Castle and the Magic Trees
Feud Critics
The Blue Photos
Spring on the 19 Bus Route
The Philosophy of Frogs
Never Let her Slip Away
Falling Backwards in the Park
Manor House
The Museum of Reconstituted Charity Shop Art
I Hear the Sound of Mandolins
Saluting Magpies on a Sunny Morning
What Good are Snails?
Two Pub Reviews (Not Very Fact-Based)
Compost in my Rucksack
Plants I don't know the Name of: Spidery-Leaved Thing
Pleasure Gardens of the Imagination
Nature Watch: Garden Birds
The Magic Orange
Cicadas Singing in Finsbury Park
The Stone
Reluctant Gardener
Chip Pan Man
Local Slugs
Golden Skies Over Holloway
I don't Really know this Area Very Well
Local Wildlife: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mentalists
Not Mindful of Hedgecutting
Highbury Corner
Better Shed than, Er, Something .
Seasonal Hair
The Fight
Fox News: The Sound of Foxes having Sex
Goodbye Cherry Blossom
'In Nature Everyone has a Job'
Summer (unlikely to be a heatwave)
Plants I don't know the Name of: Little Flower, Growing in the Wall
My Favourite Tree
The Fair
A New Underground River
How to Catch Mice
Arsenal Fullbacks Try to Change the World in a Night
The Newspaper Dilemma
Waterlow Park
The Shredder
The Old Tin Box Factory on Blackstock Road
Fox News: The Three-Legged Fox
Bigfoot
Avoiding the Gambler
Plants I don't know the Name of: Wildflowers/Weeds Growing in the Pavement
Pirates in the Park
North London Fathers' Triathlon
The Old Lady's Garden
Clissold Park Bowling Green
The Old House on Hornsey Road
Football Kid
The North London Compendium of Lost things: The Vortex
Finsbury Park
Local Wildlife: Magpies, Saluting and De-Saluting
The World is Changing too Fast
Tatran (Slovak Shop)
The North London Compendium of Lost things: My Amazing European Photo Album
Welcome to Anatolia
The Snail House
Local Wildlife: Thick-Necked Bloke with a Dog
Getting Waylaid While Buying Diy Supplies
Buying a Good Coat
Multi-Tasking
Two-Foot Roll of Bubblewrap
The Metaphor Parrot
Plants I don't know the Name of: Bitter Lettucey Stuff
Rapid E15 Stapler
Cyrille Killer
Plants I don't know the Name of: Some Herb Seeds I Scattered Around the Place
Local Writing Hotspots
Local Wildlife: Dirty Foxes
Trapped
Hangovers
Bike Chains and Feng shui
Traditional Crafts - Football Arm Tattoos
Newington Green
Cafe Reviews N19 Cafe, Holloway Road
Goodbye Football Tree
Local Wildlife: Raspberries
A Nice London Place: Hobgoblin
I know a Path Where the Cow Parsley Grows
Two Metaphor Parrots are Company.
Talking with the Dog People
Local Wildlife: The Liquorice Tree
London Calling
Plants I don't know the Name of: Purply Pink Flowers
The Lost Storage Container of Coldfall Wood
Coloured Fine Liner Pens
The Real Psychic Genius Football Prediction Society
The North London Compendium of Lost things: My Grandfather's Retirement Watch
Plants I don't know the Name of: Had them in a Restaurant in Islington
Take me to Tomato Paradise
Fading Leaves
Cafe with Art Blakey CD Playing, Mornington Crescent
The Neck of my Guitar as Seen through a Heat Haze
Holloway Road
Some Lovely Things on the Kingsland Road
Return of the Mice
Blackberry Way
The Red-Faced Bloke Dog Shit Incident
Autumn (Sad but somehow satisfying)
Postman Patter
A Cold Wind Blows from Woodberry Down
Return of the Dog People
Quink (Black)
I Killed the Cherry Tree
The Wood Collector
Old Cafe at King's Cross
Reading Glasses
Replica Kit Heartbreak
Arsenal v Portsmouth (Match Report)
Plants I don't know the Name of*: Big Old Lady Flowers from another Era
Nice View of 19th-Century Gas Holders (The Lincoln Lounge, York Way)
Local Wildlife: London Birds
Fox News: Three Foxes in Search of a Half-Eaten Pizza
The Urban Country Project
I've Got Wheels and a Full Tank of Gas
Leeds United v Tottenham Hotspur (Match Report)
Overcoming Writer's Block
North London Compendium of Lost things: The Church Near the Bench with the Nice View
The Rugby Babies
The Essay
Urban Tractor
A Bacon Sandwich and a Coffee: Cafe Vintage
The Bottle Pen
Everything is Connected
Winter (again - but the early bit . if you know what I mean)
N(Arnia) 16
Plants I don't know the Name of: Leaves Trapped in Ice
Highbury New Park
The Crazy Modernist Building at the End of our Street
Plants I don't know the Name of: The Fruit Trees Behind Sleeping Beauty's House
Sylvanian Families Time
Local Wildlife: The Seagulls
The View from the Chip Shop
Traditional Crafts
Local Wildlife: North London Mums
Key Potholes
Mapping the Terrain: Potholes
Traditional Crafts: Procrastinating through Wand-Making
Running for Buses
North London Compendium of Lost things: The Name of the Woman out of Hot Gossip
Rain
Appendix
Interactive Exercises and Field Notes
Get in the Zone
Your Favourite Tree
Nature Spotting
How to Draw. a Dog
How to Draw. an Angry-Looking Bloke
Draw People.
Things you see Every Day but don't Usually pay much Attention to
Stoke Newingtonise the News
Draw Some Plants you don't know the Name of
Field Notes

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