Any one who was at

Any one who was at Saturdays Mardi Gras in London’s Finsbury Park will have noticed a strange phenomenon. Not the fact that it appeared to be dry for most of the day. No it was the amazing proliferation of abercrombie gear on boyz around the park. Most of my group had stayed around the Radio 1 stage and it seemed like every other person had an abercrombie tee-shirt on or the waistband of abercrombie boxers hitched up just visible with their pants hiked down a bit.

The marketing and branding of ANF has hit even before there first stores in the UK. Two american girls stopped me around 10pm outside Manor House Tube to ask where I had gotten mine. Global branding eh? A marketing mans dream!

the dot com revolution has

the dot com revolution has really taken hold in the UK this past year. With new sites touting for business everyday it seems some are just doomed to failure. One site which I am hoping will stay the distance is urbanfetch.co.uk they offer free courier delivery within 2 hours in central London. Great for that gift you can’t get out to buy.

Better still they are offering free video rental for every order for a limited time – with a reply paid envelope to return it. Great special offers like this keep the internet miles ahead of the high street!

My friend in London [Kelly]

My friend in London [Kelly] has decided that she hates men and I quote “I am afraid I hate all men apart from Gay ones at them moment and the jury is out on them as they are MEN after all…….. but I like the thought of Men hurting other men……it has a certain bitter sweetness to it shall I say certain justice
”
Well it sounds a bit painful to me.
So if there is a nice genuine (straight) man out there please drop Kelly a line.

The news about boo.com ending

The news about boo.com ending up in recievership worried me more than I thought it would. My first reaction was that it was about time the .com revolution took stock and realised you just can’t pump money into a new venture indefinitely. Then after talking to friends in London I was reminded that “Thats people out of work you know, real people with real lives trying to make a living, its not all about company development and e-commerce”
As the morning wears on I realise that this actually isn’t just about the company it’s about people too.

okay so I have just

okay so I have just rolled in from the pub. Dublin men are cute I have to say this. I may be drunk with beer goggles! Good job I am married I have met a few guys today (none from Dublin I might add) who would just be eaten alive if they walked into a bar in London. Let’s hope Dan starts posting here soon. It is beginning to sound far too desperate at [world in motion] – room is spinning too!

about

A collection of things written for various reasons to answer questions people had about me whilst they visited the site. It is by no means definitive, I wrote it back in 2002 and I was 32 by that point so you know some things may have been missed out. I should also point out that I have now moved from Streatham to Balham which has been much better for my social life. I still work for the same company but I do less training and more operations stuff.

Some of my friends call me world or mundo depending on where they are from which is kind of wierd really when you think about it – there is this while group of people out there that have no idea what my real name is because all they call me is <scouse>world</scouse>.

I work for an internet service provider, training people in new technologies and proprietary software. In my spare time I like to play with things to see if I can break them or make them work in other ways. I get bored part way through things [low attention span which I am convinced is because I was born 47 days premature]. I go out a lot too so don’t always update stuff, but sometimes I do update and it’s all about being out so read into that what you will. 

History:
On February 9th, 1970 approximately 47 days too soon [due on March 27th boy did they get a shock] I arrived at Fazakerley Hospital in Liverpool. I was so premature that I weighed only 2.2lbs [the exact weight of a bag of sugar]. Back in those days we still used pounds and ounces – none of this kilo malarkey.
I lived in Bootle briefly until my parents moved me to Crosby – my elder brother had been getting into problems [typical scouser? you tell me… he tried to burn down Hugh Baird Technical College with his mate Jamie then aged 5] So by the age of 1 I was living in suburbia, I wasn’t the only one though, Cherie Booth QC lived there and Robert Runcie too. Everything ticked along fine until aged around 7 my parents [well actually my dad] moved us to Blundellsands.

Sensitive child that I am I was crying my eyes out thinking I was leaving all my memories in the old house – not realising that actually it wasn’t that far away – come on give me a break though I was only 7.
I went to Manor High School in Crosby where I made a large number of acquaintences and a few very close friends. Although I lived in the perfect house for parties, that never seemed to happen, well not until after I left school.
I stayed at Manor for sixth form – mainly because I was too lazy to look at going to college and spent most of my time busy with school plays and other social activities. No big suprise then when I failed all 4 of my ‘A’ Levels including General Studies which has to be said is possibly the most piss easy excuse for a subject known to man or child. I also blame BBC Micro and that damn space game [elite] and the strangely addictive Mr Eee for my lack of good grades.

So then onto Southport College for a second round of ‘A’ Levels – the first set of results being pretty useless for further education. Let’s face it here I was after all unlikely to get into gear and look for a job so the only possible choice was University or Polytechnic. I had come to the conclusion that it was extremely unlikely I would get a place at University [although my plan originally was to go to Stirling].

I managed to attain 3 reasonable grades in one year in subjects I had hitherto never taken and then was offered clearing. After pondering what to do next for about 3 seconds I took a place at Polytechnic of North London [yes it was that long ago and yes it is now a University!]
I moved to London and basically never went back. I’ve made lots of friends and lived lots of places and one of the nice things about this site is it helps me keep in touch with people and them in touch with me.

After University I moved home briefly – yes I know I just said that basically I never left London after I moved down – but I did try to live back up North it wasn’t like I didn’t try.
Well anyway I worked in a Quasar centre and made lots of new friends and had lots of parties for which I should belatedly thank my parents for having the coolest party throwing house in the world – except maybe for Tom and Nicole Cruises kids or maybe Bill Gates kids. Essentially it was a pretty nifty pad for parties and we used it for a few months in that phase of my life, which,I look back upon and wonder how I managed to remain STD free for so long.

The lure to move back to London was strong though and after meeting Danny La Rue and being offered a job running his bar I made a split second decision to move to Soho. Split second? Really there was no decision.
I lived in Soho for a while managing bars and then moved out of town. Life got kinda you know different again when I worked for Bass and managed a pub in Putney, again making lots of new friends [most of whom know me by the moniker world] before finally quitting pub work for a more sane existence.

Currently living in Streatham and getting used to the area. Working in Hammersmith and not getting used to the area.
So that’s me really not much more to add – well actually there is this has been 32 years in the making after all. So if you want to know more you know where I am. Oh and did I mention mines a Vodka and Cranberry?

Iain Croll
1970 – 2002