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Rex on February 18th, 2011

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Rex on February 9th, 2011

Old friend Hugh paid a fleeting visit to London on Monday and we met up with him and his lovely wife Zeynep at a local drinking hole. Hugh reckoned it was his first proper pint for a few years. Any time Hugh, any time!

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Rex on January 25th, 2011

Give a 5 year old a kidizoom digital camera and he’ll create “art”. This photo set is the results with all the boring conventional photos taken out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26860730@N07/sets/72157625780596379

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Rex on October 11th, 2010

Wandsworth council has a £5,000 eco fund to help environmental projects get started. I my idea to cover the entire roof space of our block of flats in solar cells would be a bit too pricey but if you’ve got a low-budget idea, take a look.

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Rex on September 6th, 2010

Slightly less busy than last year, and the route was improved, yesterdays London Skyride was a big success with us. Thomas (4) cycled the whole day, including the ride back to Battersea without any complaint. Not many Boris bikes around, I’d have thought they’d be more. Mind you at £35 for 6 hours you wouldn’t [...]

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Rex on July 28th, 2010

On a recent visit to Battersea Park Zoo, we decided we’d buy an annual family ticket. However we soon changed our minds when we discovered the annual zoo ticket price was £240.00 – around 10 times the family entrance fee. This prompted me to do a bit of research into what other similar places charged [...]

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Rex on July 26th, 2010

Battersea High Street was transformed for this years ‘Big Lunch’ street party. We saw bouncy castles, wine tasting, local beer tasting, face painting, chalk drawings on the street, salsa dancing, and delicious barbeques and picnic lunches. Every trader in Battersea High Street participated (with the exception of bookmakers William Hill) and the layout was double [...]

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Rex on July 14th, 2010

When I’m boss I’m going to make my family obey me and tidy my room. I will make my class listen to me make a throne and take me to mcdonalds to have every meal [,] let me have a birthday every satarday and get to stay up as long as I want to. get [...]

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Rex on July 13th, 2010

I’ve just been pushed out of a window at Battersea Arts Centre.

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Rex on June 14th, 2010

The Northcote Road Festival took place on Sunday and looked to be very successful. There were a lot of people, but as the road was closed for the day it didn’t cause any problems. There was the usual street market, plus fairground rides, two stages for music and entertainment and lots of stalls for local [...]

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