Category: firstyearinlondon

London 13/03/1993 Saturday Time to write again… I don’t think I ever wrote that I had moved to Essex Road with a ‘friend’ from the Photography course called Anna. It’s a housing association 4 bedroom flat + I have been here since July 92. I did not know Anna was a lesbian + only found…

London 28/08/1992 Friday Feelings on the 1st day without a cigarette! After reading a book by Alan Carr and going through the most excruciating cold + coughing my lungs out I decided to give up. I have been smoking for 6 years and have had enough. I only spent 24 hours without smoking once before…

London 09/11/1990 Wednesday – The End of the squats and my first year Everyone in the block who was occupying a squat received a letter a month ago, the letter stated that the case was going to court on the 30th of October. Everyone thought that after the 30th there would have been another 2…

London 22/10/1990 Monday Everything was going so well until another damned Thursday happened… I worked at Ealing on Thursday and called Patrick. I had given him a lovely letter that morning, which he had read and when I called him he said he loved the letter. As the atmosphere was very romantic I said I’d…