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Disability & M.E.
- 25% ME Group
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- Dreams at Stake
- Flash Says
- FWD/Forward (defunct)
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- Not Done Living
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- Same Difference
- Severe ME Book
- Site that Breathes, the
- Surviving Severe M.E.
- Tymes Trust
- Wheelie Catholic
- Where's the Benefit?
- WildKat blog
Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
- Adnan Tariq
- AE (Abu Eesa)
- Ahmed’s World of Islam
- An American Muslim
- Avari
- Bin Gregory Productions
- Bradford Muslim
- Chill Yo Islam Yo
- Dr.M’s Analysis
- Dunner’s blog
- HAhmed.com
- Hamza Tzortzis's blog
- Haq Islam
- Irrelevant Opinions
- Madhab al-Irfy
- Manrilla Blog
- Mas’ud Blog
- Mind, Body, Soul
- Mr Moo
- Muhabbat-ud-Deen
- Mujahideen Ryder (defunct)
- Naeem’s blog
- Peace, bruv
- Rolled Up Trousers
- Seeker's Digest
- Shahada
- Yahya Birt
Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
- Egyptian’s Wife
- Ginny's Thoughts and Things (Old)
- Happy Muslim Mama
- Hijabi Apprentice
- Ibnat al-Hidayah: Daughter of Guidance
- Ify Okoye (ex Muslim Apple)
- iMuslim.tv
- In the Shade of the Veil
- Inner Reflections Transcribed
- Islam, My Inspiration
- Jamerican Muslimah
- Margari Aziza
- Muslimness
- Nicole Cunningham
- Nzingha’s soapbox
- Obscure Sanctum
- Old Muslim Woman in the Shoe
- Online Rihla
- Organica
- Outlines (new)
- Pitter-patter of Seagulls' Feet
- Rickshaw Diaries
- Rolling Ruminations
- Scream-free Muslims
- Shalom 2 Salaam
- Spirit21
- Tasmiya
- Tears of Realisation
- The Scent
- Tradicionalista
- Tranquilart
- TwennyTwo
- Waqt Well Wasted
Islamic blogs: groups & issues
Islamic links: general
- Amal Press
- Dar al-Mustafa
- DeenPort
- DeenPort (mobile)
- European Institue of Human Sciences
- Guidance Media
- Hanbali Forum Files
- Hanbali Text Society
- Iqra Islamic Publications
- Kitaba – Islamic texts for the blind
- Lamppost Productions
- Mama List of Islamic Links
- Media Monitors Network (MMN)
- New Islamic Directions
- Pro Hijab
- Radical Middle Way
- Shaikh Muhammad IH Pirzada
- SoundVision
- SunniForum
- SunniPath
- The Cult
- ummahpulse.com – Home
Islamic links: converts
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Other blogs
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- Lenin’s Tomb
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- Not Otherwise Specified
- Pickled Politics
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- What You Can Get Away With
Tech links
Category Archives: London life
Royal Wedding post
OK, well I’m up London — right now, in the Apple Store in Covent Garden — where I had intented to take some pictures of the scenes surrounding the royal wedding. I wouldn’t have done so otherwise, but my friend … Continue reading
The problems with paring down the Royal Mail
Earlier this week I heard on the news that the Royal Mail were closing down two of their big London sorting depots, namely Bow and Nine Elms. I’ve worked at Nine Elms and it was a pretty busy place back … Continue reading
Western Extension gone
As I start writing this entry, the western extension to the London congestion charge ceases. The charge is being suspended over Christmas and New Year, and will return after that in its original boundaries with a raised fee of £10. … Continue reading
The X26 and why it sucks
The X26 is the bus I’ve been commuting to work on most of this week. It has one main benefit, which is that it runs directly from New Malden, where I live, to Croydon, where I’ve had to go for … Continue reading
Costa comfort
I’ve not always been a coffee drinker - I was first introduced to it by my Mum and it was an instant, and not sweet to my no doubt immature taste buds. I came back to it as an adult … Continue reading
Why didn’t they use the fire doors?
The other day, just after I finished my post on the “communication shutdown” supposedly in aid of autism, the fire alarm went off in the Bentalls centre in Kingston where I had written it (in the Apple Store). Of course, … Continue reading
Suburban Barclays bank robbed
Yesterday a branch of Barclays bank was robbed near London. It happened in Ashford — not the one in Kent where the Eurostar trains stop, but the quiet suburban sprawl north of Staines which is right next to Heathrow airport. … Continue reading
London minicabs and public service ads
A few months ago, Transport for London published a set of advertisements aimed at encouraging people, particularly women, not to take the unlicensed “minicabs” which attempt to pick up passengers by the side of the road, because it could lead … Continue reading
“Hijab gates” bring out the bigots
Various newspapers have reported that two sculptures to be erected at both ends of Brick Lane in east London, a narrow street which has become a trendy hang-out place and which is supposedly full of Bengalis, have been dubbed the … Continue reading
Kingston and snow
I’m stopping to type this on my phone in the middle of a long trudge through the snow and ice on the back streets between Kingston and New Malden. I’m using the back streets to avoid a common hazard of … Continue reading
Arrogant privilege rears its head again
A while back, before I got the hang of Twitter as a means of announcing blog posts and conducting cross-border conversations without having to log into a chat client (and well before getting my Android phone yesterday and being able … Continue reading
Wheelchair access at Green Park is money well spent
There is an article in the current issue of The Spectator by Andrew Gilligan, attacking a project to make Green Park station, an important London Underground interchange, wheelchair accessible or, in London Transport jargon, to provide ‘step-free’ access from the … Continue reading
Whole Foods UK ‘£36m in the red’
The Guardian reports today that the British operation of Whole Foods Market, which took over the old Fresh and Wild organic chain and opened up a huge supermarket in a former department store in Kensington, is £36 million in the … Continue reading
Borders to shut London flagship store
I read a short article in the Evening Standard yesterday evening that Borders was to shut its flagship bookshop in Oxford Street; after looking it up I discovered that four other Borders stores are to go, including Swindon, London Colney, … Continue reading
Planning decisions are never democratic
There is a letter in today’s Guardian in response to the long saga of the intervention by the Prince of Wales in the planning dispute in Chelsea. The letter is from Georgine Thorburn of the “Chelsea Barracks Acton Group”, and … Continue reading