I visit there a few times every year with the family for a long weekend and we always have an amazing time and stay for a few days. We love how busy it is, the shops and the culture. It just is so english because every single street corner has some history about it and all the buildings are english it's like being transported back to Victorian times. Also the transport is the best I've ever been on and most efficient. The shops are fantastic I can't remember where it is but we found the Patek phelipe shop and anyone who knows about watches knows those are the ones to have. I visited my friend in new Malden which as also lovely and she took me to Kingston and in Kingston everybody has there own boat and instead of taking the car they just go in the back garden and take the boat out instead. I have a special connection because my dads family are all cockneys and he lived there till he was 5. They teach me the cockney songs like knees up mother brown and the Lambeth walk.
Ingredients 100g plain flour 2 eggs 300ml semi-skimmed milk 1 tbsp sunflower oil or vegetable, plus extra for frying pinch salt Method Blending in the flour: Put the flour and a pinch of salt into a large mixing bowl and make a well in the centre. Crack the eggs into the middle, then pour in about 50ml milk and 1 tbsp oil. Start whisking from the centre, gradually drawing the flour into the eggs, milk and oil. Once all the flour is incorporated, beat until you have a smooth, thick paste. Add a little more milk if it is too stiff to beat. Finishing the batter: Add a good splash of milk and whisk to loosen the thick batter. While still whisking, pour in a steady stream of the remaining milk. Continue pouring and whisking until you have a batter that is the consistency of slightly thick single cream. Traditionally, people would say to now leave the batter for 30 mins, to allow the starch in the flour to swell, but there’s no need. Getting the right thickness: Heat the pan over a moderate heat, then wipe it with oiled kitchen paper. Ladle some batter into the pan, tilting the pan to move the mixture around for a thin and even layer. Quickly pour any excess batter into a jug, return the pan to the heat, then leave to cook, undisturbed, for about 30 secs. Pour the excess batter from the jug back into the mixing bowl. If the pan is the right temperature, the pancake should turn golden underneath after about 30 secs and will be ready to turn. Flipping pancakes: Hold the pan handle, ease a fish slice under the pancake, then quickly lift and flip it over. Make sure the pancake is lying flat against base of the pan with no folds, then cook for another 30 secs before turning out onto a warm plate. Continue with the rest of the batter, serving them as you cook or stack onto a plate. You can freeze the pancakes for 1 month, wrapped in cling film or make them up to a day ahead.
Great place to live, great place to work. Ridiculously expensive though. You need money. I personally couldn't live anywhere else in the country. Partly down to the industry I'm in, partly down to the fact that nowhere measures up for me. Chances are that shop is Mayfair.
I don't think it's that expensive I've visited most countries in Europe and cities in this country and places in london the touristy bit are cheaper for a pint than places in South Shields. Well some of them are. I paid £10.50 for two pints and a coke which isn't too bad.
Then you're a ****ing idiot and have no ****ing idea what you're talking about. Seriously, a slack jawed halfwit.
And arfter tea on the terrace we went to hundred acre wood and played pooh sticks with a boy called Christopher Robin, and the cheeky cockney bastard conned me out of my fake watch.
We go to London every year, what a great place to visit but I'm not sure I'd like to live there. You don't have to pay a small fortune to get there if you book a train in advance and you don't have to pay a small fortune for a hotel if you look around......we had two nights bed and breakfast for the three of us for £130. All the other touristy stuff is the same as you'd pay elsewhere.
Patek Phillippe have a shop in Knightsbridge, I remember walking past that last time I was there. London has some amazing places to live, eat and go out, but the majority of it has been taken over by foreign money. There's very little quintessentially 'English' and even less 'Cockney' about London nowadays, the 'cool kids' have been pushed out to cities and towns in the home counties or even further. Will look like a Shanghai suburb in another 20 years.
The foreign scroungers are the worst part of London, you can't walk anywhere without some haggard old toothless vermin in a head scarf asking for your cash. I'd like to see the part of the EU legislation that says 'ALL refugees have to be treated like royalty'. ****ing stick them all in a massive abandoned sports hall, using every square inch of floor space. Why are they being offered homes? Protection is all they are entitled to.
Must say, hadn,t gone to the smoke for years, then in 2005 was working down there so Mrs came down for the weekend, had a brilliant time, Tower of London, Greenwich, museum, art galleries, cheap theatre tickets from the bucket shops near Leicester square, did it a couple of times more before we left UK, Les Mis and Blood Brothers were fantastic
We need to look no further than our own back yard mate. There's over a thousand asylum seekers in Middlesborough alone! If they're "seekers", how the hell did they get into the country in the first place. Fair enough, there'll be some genuine cases, I've got no problem with those who live in fear, but I would say the majority of them have nothing to offer this country and come in search of benefits. They shouldn't be allowed into the country until they have been cleared.
I could live anywhere but that ****hole melting pot that is England's capital. Full of third worlders leeching off every passer by. Nowt against the true Cockney's mind. Had some cracking nights out with the West Ham lads & lasses. I have family down there, I never visit because I detest the place. It's a ****ing rat hole. Just like Paris is. My mate, who is now dead lived in Chelsea. Five quid a ****ing pint! No thanks Queen Lizzie you German skank.
I'm from there, lived there, worked there - to me it's your archetypal capital city a cacophonous hubbub full of hustle and bustle - seldom visit would never move back, prefer it up here !
Did you see Putin's speech to the Muslim's who want to come to Russia and implement their laws? I loved reading every word of it, it made me incredibly jealous that we don't have a leader with balls. It's not just the Muslims obviously, the loads that come in from Eastern Europe as well and Africa. The problem starts and ends at what they can offer to the country and half the Eastern Europe lot can graft like hell, but they're being offered more money to sit on their arses doing nothing than they are in their own countries as a banker ffs. If it was up to me, I'd stick an unlimited budget on ratcatchers who are paid to report benefits cheats, I'd offer a financial incentive to vigilantes to ferret out benefits cheats and I'd make sure every single person in the country who is seeking benefits is on the breadline, unless they are medically (not fat) unfit for work. I seen a fella in the post office once, claim his scroungers allowance then buy £50 worth of scratch cards, unbelievable.
