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stellapremium

Should there be more cycle paths on Hampstead Heath?

Posted by stella about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 7 responses

There’s a bit of a barney going on. Cyclists are campaigning for a 60% increase in the total length of cycle paths on Hampstead Heath whilst the pedestrians, ramblers and dog walkers say Heath for Feet! The Corporation of London are consulting this month. I don’t cycle. I’m not sure I care but w...

LittleEmily

What's your view?

Posted by LittleEmily about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 63 responses

I mean literally, what nice views do you have from your window? My desk looks out across to St Pancras and I can see the clock tower (only in winter though when the tree in front of my window has lost its leaves) and the window in my post room has a nice view across Hampstead Heath and the Royal Free Hospital. What ...

stellapremium

Does anyone know the Parliament Hill bandstand bagpiper?

Posted by stella about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 1 response

He was up there, practising, at 9am this morning. Disappointingly not in full Scot regalia. But he is rather good and I’m not generally a fan of the pipes. I was wondering if, one day, he just thought “that’s a good place to practice me pipes” and took it upon himself to claim the bandstan...

stellapremium

Are you watching London wildlife?

Posted by stella about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 17 responses

How does Sean Hughes get these gigs? He’s doing Saving Planet Earth tonight. I used to think he was funny in the Sean’s Show days but good grief what has he done to deserve this? Poor long eared bats. Anyway, the point is I spied a WOODPECKER on Hampstead Heath today. He was gorgeous – with a ye...

Chap_medium

Time for a Chap to get sweaty

Posted 5 months ago 0 responses

What, no free gin and tonic? Wah! After last year’s G&T-fuelled shennanigans we were looking forward to more free booze and silly games in the sunshine at the fifth annual Chap Olympiad, but, alas, were limited this year to what we could carry, all the way to Hampstead Heath.

Dippers_medium

A ballsy petition

Posted 4 months ago 5 responses

Hampstead’s naked men want more room to ‘hang out’. Cough cough. The north London heath is famous and well loved for many things: its outstanding natural beauty, the swimming ponds, shagging and tramps being gifted million pound plots. It’s also the only place in London that men can legally sunbathe naked, in a special enclosure by the Men’s Pond.

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