18 Nov 2009
Londonist
I was interviewed by Jaz over at the Londonist blog a couple of weeks back and this was published on Monday. It’s always nice to get some profile for the project, even nicer that this came as a result of other bloggers citing it in their earlier interviews for Londonist.
Anyway, check it out here.
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