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i took my cousin for a walk thru holland park and notting hill yesterday and to me this part of london feels like the sacred realm

it’s a part (orange) of my extended neighbourhood (red) that i have deep personal ties to, rooted in some of my earliest memories [1/12]

3/11/2024, 3:31:22 AM

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i went to jazz refreshed at mau mau bar 9 times iirc. my fave drummer richard spaven would say it felt like home, london being the cradle of bass music – dnb, dubstep, ukg, grime, but especially broken beat, which came from ladbroke grove and never left ldn, unlike the others

3/11/2024, 3:31:25 AM

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the serbian orthodox church and sunday school are some of my earliest memories, family friends around the area, walking past ladbroke grove tube with them

i had a friend when i was 8 who lived in one of the latimer road towers

3/11/2024, 3:31:27 AM

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the clash between the ghettoised parts of latimer road and the marble houses of notting hill, the documentary on portland road, that you can see the clash as you walk down it. i lived in destitute housing aged 6 so the grenfell fire rly got to me

3/11/2024, 3:31:27 AM

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i learned to play tennis in the sports centre under the westway. i learned to swim in a gym on queensway

i’ve been to notting hill carnival several times. some of the ppl i wanted to be friends with in school lived in the area too https://twitter.com/shoutplenty/status/1566474567899652097

3/11/2024, 3:31:28 AM

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key parts of my pokémon go story were in holland park, especially cracking the algorithm for triggering mewtwo, when i whittled down the possible gyms from 5 to 3 and then proactively raided them (once after dark). the pastoral machop grind w/ the older community is a warm memory

3/11/2024, 3:31:29 AM

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holland park was also the natural resting place for carnival days, meetups with my mum’s friend and a picnic with my school friends. it’s easily the best park in london

here’s the tortoises with triangle and time sundial/pokémon go gym

3/11/2024, 3:31:31 AM

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it’s no secret from my last fm that i’m a massive blur fan too and so appreciated their shouts to the westway, air-cushioned soles off the portobello road and their/gorillaz videos with trellick tower (which i walked past for the first time yday and is fucking terrifying)

3/11/2024, 3:31:33 AM

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i remember my mum dragging me thru the stalls on the portobello road when i was small. i remember the “enjoy yourself” graffiti, long gone but immortalised in pokémon go, reminding me what matters each time i went jrf at mau mau

3/11/2024, 3:31:33 AM

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i remember the ecos de españa mural i first squatted next to after a bad jerk chicken burger at nhc 2013 and then walked past while waiting for gigs to start later years

i remember seeing grenfell blacked out only a month after the fire while walking back from my first gig

3/11/2024, 3:31:35 AM

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