Clapham Calling

From the old blog

I just had a look at my old blog that hardly works now and this entry from May 22nd 2003 made me smile

Barry Mark II

I went out to get a new goldfish after I managed to kill the original Barry. I had bought a slow release fish food capsule but hadn't read the instructions properly. It contained enough food for 20 - 30 fish we had 2! So we now have a new Barry and I couldn't resist getting another little one who I have named Larry.

I went out to get a new goldfish after I managed to kill the original Barry. I had bought a slow release fish food capsule but hadn't read the instructions properly. It contained enough food for 20 - 30 fish we had 2! So we now have a new Barry and I couldn't resist getting another little one who I have named Larry.

"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

I went to our prayer meeting feeling sorry for myself last night. Micah is not allowing us to get enough sleep and I think that is impacting everything else, including me getting extra grumpy with Caleb and Jacob. At the meeting it didn't take long for me to realise that yes I am struggling at the moment but what other people are going through seems to be Mammoth in proportion to my to me lack of zzzz.

One lady who has badly injured her back when her trolley on a travelator rolled back and knocked her to the ground, could only speak of the good it had allowed her to do by being confined to one space.

A relative dying lonely in Hospital of cancer. A son wanting to be a Muslim. 

Lack of sleep? - what lack of sleep?

I am glad I went.

"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."  2 Corinthians 4:17,18

Alphabet Of Nations - They Might Be Giants

Not for vegeterians!

A favourite place for me to eat in Clapham is Bodean's. It's a BBQ joint. As you enter your are hit by the smell of smoky meat. It seems like everything gets the BBQ treatment and that is ok with me. Bodean's offers good value for money but for me what is disappointing, at times is the lack of consistency with the food and the service. I have had great service but then the food has been a small portion and the meat very dry. Then on another visit the service was inattentive but the food was melt in the mouth. So when visiting you never know what it is going to be like. If it was possible to choose I would take better food than the service but why can we not have both? 

 

Picture from trusted places.

What a quirky house!

This building in the next street to us, has always fascinated me. At one time it was a Coroners Court built in 1901. It is now a six bedroomed house for sale at just under £3 million pounds. I would buy it.

   

Victorian "poverty maps" of London

The London School of Economics has online Charles Booth's groundbreaking "Poverty Maps" of London from 1886 to 1903 they used survey data to visually represent the quality of life for Londoners across a city that was characterised by enormous economic disparity. The LSE maintains an archive of the maps, zoomable and overlaid with the contemporary London map. The maps are colored from black ("Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.") to yellow ("Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.") Link and if you follow this link you will see our street "Brayburne Avenue in the middle with pink shading representing : Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings. Today I think the street would be pink and red : Middle class. Well-to-do .

London today is still "a city that" is "characterised by enormous economic disparity."

The London School of Economics has online Charles Booth's groundbreaking "Poverty Maps" of London from 1886 to 1903 they used survey data to visually represent the quality of life for Londoners across a city that was characterised by enormous economic disparity. The LSE maintains an archive of the maps, zoomable and overlaid with the contemporary London map. The maps are colored from black ("Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.") to yellow ("Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.") Link and if you follow this link you will see our street "Brayburne Avenue in the middle with pink shading representing : Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings. Today I think the street would be pink and red : Middle class. Well-to-do .

London today is still "a city that" is "characterised by enormous economic disparity."

Welcome to my new blog.

This new blog venture will be a record of life living in and ministering in Clapham London SW4. Not to say they will be the only subjects. I probably will add the things of the interwebb that I find amusing.