Diary: Introducing Basterfield Billy

For the past three years I have been writing short pieces about my local neighbourhood in London EC1. This blog, Basterfield Billy, took the name of the block on the Golden Lane Estate in which I live. The posts in the Basterfield Billy blog are mostly columns I have written for the City Matters newspaper about the goings-on hereabouts, plus a few sketches and vignettes of events and characters locally. But the time has come to consolidate and put all my blogs in one place, so from now on any posts that would have appeared in Basterfield Billy will now appear in the this blog.