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Caledonian Park Fun Day ... memories of 7 years ago!

Caledonian Park Fun Day , a set on Flickr. #Clocktower

London needs Swimming Heath Ponds & Dams Swimmers

Hampstead Health Ponds RT Please > > Special General Meeting of the >  Heath & Hampstead Society >  (members only) > Monday 25th November 2013 > 7pm > followed by a > PUBLIC MEETING > to launch the  > Dam Nonsense Campaign > 8pm > at St. Stephen's > Pond Street > at the  junction with Haverstock Hill > > PS Wrap up warm - it's likely to be cold! > > See the latest news at www.ProtectOurPonds.org.uk

An incredible tribute to the great Seamus Heaney from fellow poets @faber @southbankcentre

#SeamusHeaney

Not quite how you think of Cally Park or the York Way Estate

Not quite how you think of Cally Park or the York Way Estate , a photo by caledonianpark on Flickr. Holloway

Highbury Fields today

London in Autumn

‘You must live and face these unbearable difficulties.’ Dalai Lama

interview with the Dalai Lama By Amy Kazmin I arrive in Dharamsala, the Indian home of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, groggy after an overnight train journey from New Delhi and a two-hour drive into the Himalayas. The weather is grey and drizzly but the mood is festive as crowds flock to Tsuglagkhang Temple, where the Dalai Lama is giving a three-day public teaching on a 14th-century Buddhist text about the path to enlightenment. Stopping briefly at my hotel, I hear the voice of the world's most famous Buddhist monk echoing over loudspeakers from the temple nearby. Typically when he speaks to audiences in English, the Dalai Lama is light-hearted, chuckling in the midst of sentences. But today the 78-year-old, who fled to India in 1959, nine years after China's People's Liberation Army occupied his homeland, is speaking in his mother tongue. His tones are hushed and serious, though gentle. Soon, I am among Tibetan refugees, Indians and weste

Great Art at Cally Road Tube by Kim

#tfl #london #underground

New cycle route planned to #KingsCross. Current #CallyRd consultation now v.important http://wp.me/p40HJK-1h @peterwalker99 @IslingtonCycle