Hookland 11/6/20 22:40:06

@JoanPassey I tend to call that when I am doing it traditional cloaking or in some of its forms, rural modernism though that blends into a very personal take on rural modernism.

Hookland 11/6/20 23:09:40

You don’t want to be drinking in The Scouring. Bad pub that is. Full of Black Lane Walkers and the type of man that would sell your secrets to the coppers for a single fag. – Tom Rudd #VOH

ReptonGuide 11/5/20 3:33:57

The lie that all London food is inadequate except for the rich is one I will not tolerate. Go to its more shadowed streets and eat from fine Italy or Cathay. Indulge in traditional English fare of blood snakes and Repton Relish. Push across the river and feast. – Dr. Kadrey, 1905

ReptonGuide 11/5/20 6:44:38

All the old street gangs from riverside – the Bayonet Boy‰Ûªs, the Drowners, the Bloodless Brothers – never messed with the Mud King. Even toughs crumple under the weight of superstition. Fear to bully the alleged ambassador of the tide itself.

ReptonGuide 11/5/20 17:20:55

There are reports from the Marshman Estate of the ghost of the pensioner killed last year by having a brick dropped on her from one of the walkways by a delinquent. Reports also of a raft of teen suicides. – Arthur Chen, 1978

ReptonGuide 11/5/20 20:37:19

Some say the flotilla of ships above the lampposts near Ironwood Wharf are in remembrance of St. Nicholas as patron saint of sailors. Others say they are there to remind he is also the patron saint of prostitutes.