It’s open! Surbiton’s biggest, boldest new restaurant, Megan’s – a long-awaited local branch of the popular south-west London chain – has welcomed its first customers to the former Zizzi site in the town’s old post office building. There was a queue of eager local folk (some with pushchairs, some with dogs, some with the morning
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Chelsea’s Korean midfielder Ji So-Yun will become the first non-Brit to reach 100 appearances in the Women’s Super League if she’s selected on Sunday lunchtime for the London derby against West Ham… in front of real fans once again. In all, 700 supporters are being allowed into Kingsmeadow, each having to fill in a two-side
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Surbiton’s parlour walls boast many fines works of art… but also this, which graces our landing at home. I painted the footballer (who was buried today in Buenos Aires following his untimely death) a few years after the infamous Hand of God goal, and entered it into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1992, replete
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This remarkably chatty crow, seen here in silhouette against the autumnal colours of Claremont Gardens, shared my company (and a cinnamon bun from the station’s Feeka coffee takeaway), so I thought I’d test out its knowledge. Well, I wasn’t disappointed, and I’m now thinking of putting him (or her) forward as a future Mastermind contender.
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