Tag Archives | Hampstead Heath

Free Weekend: Walk To The Countryside (well, Totteridge Fields)

By on May 18, 2012 in Free Weekend?

I’m a complete urbanite but nevertheless I’ve long been obsessed with stepping out of my front door and walking to the ‘countryside’. And so here’s how we did it from Kentish Town, on one of those sunny Sundays when the clouds are so pillowy and the sky so blue there’s really nothing better to do [...]

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Life Tips #17: Eileen, 92, Retired Nurse Matron

By on May 15, 2012 in Life Tips

1. If there’s another Blitz, stay close to Belsize Park Tube Station. It’s one of the deepest in London. I was a trainee nurse at the Royal Free during WW2. We were evacuated to Epsom for the worst of the Blitz, but I remember the masses of people who would arrive from the East End [...]

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Life Tips #6: Clare Davidson, Voice Coach

By on February 28, 2012 in Life Tips

1. It’s essential to love what you do. I meet such varied people, from politicians and priests to corporate high flyers and of course actors; in fact, anyone who needs to use their voice in public. My work is a constant source of fascination, and I love seeing the vocal process helping people in their [...]

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Wednesday Picture: Three Jack Russells Sitting On A Bench

By on February 8, 2012 in Wednesday Picture

Left to right: Chippy, Pepper, Hobbes. Otherwise known as the inaugural meeting of the Kentish Town Jack Russell Club (KTJRC for all you Women’s Institute types). And canine watchers will appreciate that approximately one second after this picture was taken, all three dogs were off, never to regroup again in such perfect formation (despite an [...]

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Wednesday Picture: Feb 1, 2009: Snow Day on Hampstead Heath

By on February 1, 2012 in Wednesday Picture

‘The familiar landscape, transformed by snow, offered perspective to Mrs Kentishtowner’s thoughts. Parliament Hill glistened, a slippery toboggan run. Snowmen stood as proud as the birth of a new race. Footprints were like arrows in all directions, proof of routes taken, choices made. Was snow the great equalizer? Was that it?’

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Hampstead Heath, Sunday Morning, 9am

By on January 15, 2012 in Health & Exercise
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Best Happening 2011: Alma Street Festival

By on December 18, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Festival, Kentish Town, Random

1. Alma Street Festival 2. The absence of looted shops in August 3. 2am summer swimming on the Heath When we asked for your ‘Best of 2011’ lists, certain categories lent themselves to a more creative type of response. And ‘Best Happening’ is surely one of those, encouraging some very personal replies – all of [...]

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Gabby Young’s Top 5 in Kentish Town

By on October 13, 2011 in Fashion, Music

Gabby Young at the Bull & Last (dreaming, no doubt, of a warm scotch egg) Photographer: Tom Medwell Mrs Kentishtowner loves nothing more than an eccentric local. And none more so than Gabby Young And Other Animals , an eight-piece collective who headline KOKO tonight for what they reckon is their biggest show ever. Kentish [...]

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Local Hero?

By on March 2, 2011 in Bench Tales, Film, Film &Theatre, Random, Walks

Gospel Oak boy Benjamin Garfield dropped us a line the other day about ‘Benches’, a three minute flick he’s entered into this year’s Reed Short Film competition. Rather wisely, it’s inspired by a 2006 feature yours truly wrote for the Times Magazine. Flattery will, of course, get you everywhere. ‘I was thinking about jobs that [...]

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