Bedford Square

Ian Brown hosted a lovely informal BBQ in the peace and quiet of the very green and lovely Bedford Square gardens (panorama) yesterday. Other burnt offering eaters included Chris Marsden of Oxford Internet Institute, and others from the highly incestuous UCL/LSE/SOAS axis. We played six degrees of Ian Brown while Ian was off trying to find a source of fire.

Bedford Square, perhaps the best-preserved Georgian square in London, features around half a dozen blue plaques and Coade stone (invented by Eleanor Coade of Lambeth) around its many doorways.

Ian, who was until recently Director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, is going to be working full time at UCL from next month, so we'll be in the same department.