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Kate has recreated me in Lego. I'm honoured.

Rather late (as it was weeks ago) here's a selection of pictures from the Lewisham Bloggers' Meetup:

Created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.

It was a good night, which I throughly enjoyed. More accounts to be found at the Ragged School Blog, Bob from Brockley, Max, Rob, David, Tom, Richard, Kate, Wulf and host Andrew Brown.

I hope the next one is less than six months away, otherwise I may not be a Lewisham blogger any more.

I've been called away from the urban delights of London Town to the rural idyll of Suffolk on family business, so my account of the Lewisham Bloggers Drinks last Friday will have to wait until tomorrow. My fine photographs of the event are on my iMac in the flat.

However, it it with heavy heart that I report that it was only the second most important bloggy gathering in London over the weekend.

Those satirical slanderers of stagecraft, the West End Whingers, held a party for assorted thesps, writers and bloggers, and had a fine time of it all.

Bet they didn't have any Adnams, though.

(We really should have a blogging journalists' drinks at some point)

Adnams Sign, Halesworth, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.

And, while I probably won't get a pint of Adnams, you'll find me in the pub on Friday night for the Lewisham Bloggers' Drinks.

Be there, or be elsewhere.

posing in poultry, originally uploaded by Zombie Jen.

Found this oddity while browsing the Flickr Map for the Lewisham area...

If everything goes according to plan, our time in Lewisham is nearly over. The refurbishment of the flat is nearly done, and it should be on the market by the spring. And, when it is sold, we'll be moving away from Lewisham.

Just as I spent a while looking at Soho in the lead-up to leaving it, I'm going to do a series of posts, saying goodbye and charting what I thin about the past, present and future of the borough where I've lived for over a decade. A lot of my early blogging was about Lewisham, and many of my early blogging contacts were locals. This seems a fitting end to this era of my life.

Let's start with this:

A whole parade of shops has suddenly closed down on Lee High Road. That's a classic sign of a landlord pulling in leases for redevelopment. And let's face it, Lewisham is ripe for redevelopment. Aside for a dodgy pub making way for a new Nando's, the only significant thing to happen in the town centre over the last decade has been the Docklands Light Railway terminal.

Wing clipped?
Originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.

I'm not having a good time of it right now, and I'd like to thank one individual in particular for making things worse. Yes, I'd like to thank the lackwit that rammed my parked car with his sometime last night, doing this damage to it. I think the failure to leave any insurance details behind. That was a nice touch.

I'd also like to thank Lewisham police for welcoming me into a locked glass box, where a bored young man gave me a form to fill in while informing that they intended to do absolutely nothing about it. You see, unless somebody inflicts criminal damage on your car under the watchful eye of the CCTV, they're not interested. Too much like hard work, I presume.

Today has not been a good day. And what, do you think, are the odds of the insurance company deciding to write the car off?

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