Even bloggers have to leave the wired world sometimes. This is where I was for the past week.
New: Am now on Twitter
- With exactly a year to go until the Euro elections, handy "How to become a British eurosceptic" guide kosmopolito.org/2013/05/14/how… @kosmopolit 10 hours ago
- RT @TUCEquality: Govt is taking a billion pounds out of disabled people's pockets. Yet took just 0.0019% in company tax from Google's £3.2b… 17 hours ago
- Signed up to lobby UK retailers resisting plan for safer factories in Bangladesh: ow.ly/l1tzl via @going_to_work Ta @Johninnit 1 day ago
- Safety in Bangladesh factories agreement avaaz.org/en/gap_enough_… signed by @hmunitedkingdom + partly by @CalvinKlein but @GAP refusing - boo 1 day ago
- 32 Signs you're from Ealing buzzfeed.com/karatay/32-sig… Proof you can take the kid out of Ealing but can't take Ealing outta the kid @buzzfeed 2 days ago
- Thanks @robertachapman, great to be your latest too + trade Bowie reminisces today. Hope all goes well with Hackney roving surgery tomorrow 5 days ago
- Great Kingston Connections festival line-up issuu.com/creativeyouth/… this June @Rosetheatre Attractions include @tom_watson + my good self 5 days ago
- - @EmmaHCasey Too right+ too many examples to get into 140 characters. Most British postwar pop has origins in the 'burbs though denies this 6 days ago
- After viva-ing a PhD thesis on the agency of wimmin in punk this week cheering to see X-Ray Spex and much missed Polly Styrene on @TOTP1978 6 days ago
- Eight funded PhD studentships @KingstonFASS fee waiver +£5k stipend across a range of disciplines fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/schola… Deadline: 7th June 6 days ago
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September 2, 2011 at 1:14 pm
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Looks Portugese
September 2, 2011 at 1:29 pm
rupahuq
Good guess but not quite
September 2, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Rumbold
Southall?
September 3, 2011 at 3:48 pm
rupahuq
Correct continent although I think the phrase you’re looking for is “Viva Espana”
September 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Norman Urquia
Looks like Madrid to me – or perhaps Ceuta
September 7, 2011 at 11:00 am
rupahuq
Stormin-Norman: you’ve got it. Lavapies to be precise! The Brick Lane of Spain??
September 7, 2011 at 4:06 pm
norman
Ha ha, I read Lavapies on the third and last picures and which sparked childhood memories from Madrid, it translates as footwash which I’ve never forgotten.
Spanish Wikipedia suggests it might have been the location of a public fountain used for washing before prayers.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavapi%C3%A9s
September 8, 2011 at 1:41 pm
rupahuq
Didn’t know you could read Bengali (that’s what the Sanskrit-derived script is anyway)
August 14, 2012 at 2:33 pm
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