london belongs to me

>>> robin and donald

i see your art team is growing. ;)

the last photo: the cafe looks Arabic / Iranian / Turkish, right? because of the first item on the right.

yes, well you know of course Finsbury Park is the centre of Londonistan, the area where BMIT (Bad Men in Turbans) live and hatch their devilish plans. Finsbury Park mosque is the erstwhile home of "hook-handed Abu Hamza" ;)

That turkish vessel reminds me, I forgot to note this on the blog. We stayed in a hotel in Brighton which had a huge ornate samovar in the dining room. Underneath the thing there was a huge obelisk-like thing covered in a sheet, which when I sneakily inspected it, turned out to be a 1970s photocopier. The only purpose of the ornamental samovar was to give the disused and camouflaged photocopier a plausible reason for existence.
Some logical flaw in this thinking...the "hotelier's paradox".

>>> yes, well you know of course Finsbury Park is the centre of Londonistan, the area where BMIT (Bad Men in Turbans) live and hatch their devilish plans.

It ‘should’ be a place for me then. Strangely, judging by photos Londonistan is very different from Irangeles (think it has something to do with the Iranians’ decadent pro-Americanism).

>>> Finsbury Park mosque is the erstwhile home of "hook-handed Abu Hamza" ;)

LOL

>>> That turkish vessel reminds me, I forgot to note this on the blog.

Yes, although this kind of vessel (Ghourie) became very popular during the reign of Ottomans in Iraq as an addition to Ghal’ian (Turkish hookah) and Nard-board for aristocrat women but it is originally Arabic ... originally made for Harun al-Rashid’s Harem through the Iranian influence of his son Mamum who imported more moderate Shia artists from Iran to Iraq: note that the shape of the vessel corresponds with the calligraphic form of the word Allah in Arabic (still many Sunnis consider it a Shiite blasphemy).

>>> We stayed in a hotel in Brighton which had a huge ornate samovar in the dining room. Underneath the thing there was a huge obelisk-like thing covered in a sheet, which when I sneakily inspected it, turned out to be a 1970s photocopier. The only purpose of the ornamental samovar was to give the disused and camouflaged photocopier a plausible reason for existence.

You know most of the hotels I have visited in Middle East have this kind of huge samovar in their dinning room and as I have noticed it is always for camouflaging a disfigured / damaged / ugly part of the room. Odessa has a huge industry in producing these huge samovars btw ;)

Forgive the typo: should be Mamun (Ma'mun) instead of Mamum

I used to walk past the Mount Pleasant Crescent Elephant every day & it never failed to raise my spirits.

I wonder how often they have to trim it...that's a really nice street though – also near to the superb gigantic polish(?) supermarket (across the road from the old dairy).

Bush claims Saddams arsenal of WMD 'probably hidden beneath a samovar somewhere'.

hi, my name's avan. the 'fine establishment' is named after me! lol.