The year in Twitpics
TWELVE months of sending pics to Twitter… The most looked at and possibly most laughed at was a retweet of Pavan Amara’s picture from the day Hampstead Heath was [READ ON]
December 2012
‘New Journal reporter bribes Royal Free hospital porter’
A FRIEND with a cavalier grasp of current affairs recently pointed me in the direction of Kevin Cotter’s Jog On Fat Barry, a collection of uncompromising crime stories, [READ ON]
Steel drum Santa never stops
STEEL drum Santa seems to have become omnipresent outside Camden Town Underground Station this Christmas. Every time I walk past, he’s there. I can’t understand [READ ON]
How dare you call Arsenal middle class?
IT’S sushi for lunch, the laptop was made by Apple and the kids are called Grace, Amelia and Ruben. Blah, cliche, blah. You like Mumford And Sons on the radio, Wagamama [READ ON]
‘Parent’
WHO knows what Camden Labour party activist Lucy Reese asked to be captioned as when she appeared on Newsnight on Thursday night? The fact they just put ‘parent’ [READ ON]
I’d rather read the CNJ…
IF you are leafing through this week’s Spectator, take a look at the diary page by the renowned playwright Sir David Hare. He writes: “Signs of growing old. [READ ON]
Best of friends: Neil and Tulip
FORMER Labour Party leader and Tufnell Park resident Neil Kinnock was spotted rekindling his good friendship with Camden Council cabinet member Councillor Tulip Siddiq at the [READ ON]
The mains man
THE dipping temperatures have led to that now familiar festive problem of burst pipes in Hampstead’s Victorian water mains. It’s gurgle time around Gayton Road at [READ ON]
You wallies…
YOU know you’re in considerate Dartmouth Park when the mocking words etched into a frozen car windscreen include the label ‘wallies’, rather than [READ ON]
Council leader: ‘Morrissey is a dick’
SOMETIMES you see politicians tweeting and wonder why they are bothering, so devoid of soul and meaning are their messages. I mean the notes which amount to greasy [READ ON]
Richard Osley 