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Urban life necessitates efficient and dependable moving services, and Brent stands out as an exceptional borough for this man and van brent service. Let's embark on an exploration to unlock its mysteries and uncover how this game-changing service is revolutionising how we navigate city landscapes.

Understanding Man and Van Services

Moving can be a difficult and overwhelming experience, which is why Man and Van services stand out. These personalised moving services go above and beyond simply transporting belongings; instead they take an empathetic and personalised approach to moving. Imagine having someone by your side helping navigate the intricate maze of relocation - that is the essence of Man and Van Brent; services which understand both its emotional and practical elements of relocation.

Brent Exploration of Man and Van Services

Brent is known for its diverse culture and unique charm, which presents moving challenges unique to this borough. Enter Man and Van services - designed to bridge between neighbourhoods by providing tailored solutions - providing seamless relocation services from Wembley's bustling streets to Kilburn's quiet corners.

Finding Man and Van Services in Brent

Discovering reliable local Man and Van services requires understanding what services exist within Brent. Search engine results to real-world recommendations show us that using this keyword ensures you reach its heart of moving expertise in Brent.

Making Informed Choices

Today, information plays a pivotal role in decision-making. Research indicates that Man and Van services in Brent have seen a marked increase in customer satisfaction as opposed to traditional movers due to personalised attention coupled with local knowledge providing a smoother transition for residents as well as businesses alike.

Addressing Concerns and Exploring Myths

Man and Van Services Are Only Appropriate for Small Moves

Contrary to popular belief, Man and Van services do not limit themselves solely to smaller moves; their adaptability means they can accommodate various relocation needs - be it moving a single room apartment or an entire corporate office complex, Man and Van in Brent can tailor its services according to each mover's specific requirements.

 They Lack Professionalism as Compared to Established Moving Companies

Man and Van services often generate questions regarding their professionalism; however, the reality is quite the contrary; thanks to an experienced network of professionals, these services combine a friendly yet expert approach with reliable moving experiences for a superior moving experience.

Technology and Moving Services

With technology now playing such a dominant role in daily life, the moving industry is also adapting. Man and Van services in Brent are taking advantage of advancements by adopting cutting-edge innovations into their processes and customer experiences - from online booking platforms to real-time tracking services - the future holds even greater convenience for those searching for their ideal moving solution.

Seamless Moves Await

Now that we have explored the world of Man and Van services in Brent, it is clear: seamless moves await those seeking an effective combination of expertise, personalization and local knowledge in their man and van brent moving company. So the next time you find yourself navigating Brent with relocation duties on your shoulders, remember these three words "Man and Van Brent." Your stress-free relocation awaits only one keyword away.

Advantages of Hiring Man and Van Services in Brent

Cost-Effective Solutions: 

Man and van services often provide more cost-effective alternatives than larger moving companies, as their flexible packages and tailored services cater specifically to what your budget demands.

Personalised Approach: 

In contrast with generic moving services, Man and Van providers in Brent offer tailored attention. Their focus lies on understanding your specific requirements to provide a move that perfectly suits them and their preferences.

Flexibility in Scheduling: 

Life can be unpredictable and your moving plans may change abruptly. Man and Van services understand this fact and offer greater flexibility when it comes to scheduling services for last-minute moves or advanced planning; their services adjust according to your timeline.

No Hidden Costs: 

Transparency is at the core of reliable Man and Van services, and that goes double for moving services. There won't be any surprise fees or hidden costs in your final bill; this creates trust between both parties involved, making the whole moving experience simpler and stress-free.

Quick Turnaround Times:

Man and Van services offer quick and seamless moving experiences, designed to meet the timelines of their clients in Brent.

Environmentally Friendly Solutions: 

Many Man and Van services in Brent are adopting eco-friendly practices. From fuel efficiency in transportation to recycling materials used during packing services, selecting these options can contribute to your commitment to sustainability.

Tailored Packaging Solutions: 

Packing is an essential aspect of moving, and our Man and Van services go beyond simple transportation to offer customised packing solutions tailored specifically to you. Whether you prefer doing it yourself or assigning someone else the task, these services will meet all your packing needs.

Reduce Stress and Physical Strain:

Moving can be both physically and emotionally exhausting, so availing yourself of man and van services in Brent can ease the strain and let professionals handle the heavy lifting, giving you time to settle into your new space more smoothly.

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Top Cat  –  Hoyt Curtin

“The indisputable leader of the gang”

*Warning : Cat Porn*

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Yes, that Top Cat.  The wise guy cartoon alleycat from New York City with his gang always trying to get one over on Officer Dibble.  It was a staple of my childhood in the 1960s and certainly contributed to my impression of the city where I now live.  As did the music.  Like many of Hanna Barbara’s cartoons – Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, The Jetsons – the music was composed and recorded by Hoyt Curtin, a Californian specialist in the punchy joyful bright slices of cartoon sound.  Top Cat the Theme Music is only 42 seconds long and is thus the shortest piece of music in My Pop Life to date.

From the funky horn fanfare to the stuttering trumpet intro to the glamorous celebratory vocal refrain (which reminds me somehow of Isaac Hayes’ Shaft (see My Pop Life #60)) and the crisp xylophone punctuation, this mini cartoon symphony is a marvel of crushed sound & misheard lyrics.

Top Cat ! whose intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.

Strode right in, it’s whipping to see…Top Cat !

Hmmm.  Well that is what I’ve always sung, from the age of five.  Nonsense.  Wait. OK according to the lyrics bible Genius.com (which is highly recommended by the way…) it is :

Top Cat ! whose intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.

Providing it’s with dignity…Top Cat !

I genuinely just found that out.  Prefer my five year old version somehow.  Anyway.  The  music always made me feel that it had been played on a single that jumped – we had some of these – a scratched record – where a groove was missed and the tune would jump forward 15 seconds.  Somehow Top Cat does this in its second 20 seconds.  Check it out – it is completely wild, and probably quite hard to play.  It is a masterpiece theme tune to a masterpiece cartoon that ran from 1961 for only 30 episodes.  Which were endlessly repeated.

Top Cat, Benny the Ball, Fancy Fancy, Choo Choo, Brain & Spook

The format was as follows – a street gang of cats living in dustbins by a fence eating fish-heads, and thrown-away fast food.  Led by smart status symbol Top Cat – T.C. –  Benny the Ball, Choo Choo, Brain, Fancy Fancy and Spook were all expertly delineated characters in bright colours and working-class NYC accents.  Their enemy was Officer Dibble who was a human, constantly trying to foil their get-rich-quick schemes.  I suppose there was a strong symbolic element here – a representation of the poor underclass, finding ways legal or usually otherwise to make ends meet.  The voices were all superb.  Arnold Stang was T.C.

Mimi, Roxy and Boy in Brighton : a very rare picture of them together

Back there in Sussex we always had cats – indeed apart from a brief spell at the LSE and a handful of years in Los Angeles, I have always had a cat, or two, or three.  I believe them to be superior to dogs.  They clean themselves.  They bury their toilet. They give themselves their own status. They are spirit animals who give your home life and soul.  When they die, I am bereft for a long long time.

My first cat was called Caesar, a big male tabby given to me when I was one year old.  I remember burying him in the garden of our house in Selmeston when Dad was still at home, so I would’ve been seven or eight, and so would Caesar. Then we got white tortoiseshell Sheba and black & white Kitty Little.  We also had dogs during this period of my youth – Corgis Raq and Bessie, and then Welsh Sheepdog Brutus who used to chase cars.  When we became homeless in 1970 (see My Pop Life #84 ) I don’t know what happened to the animals.  After nine months the family were re-united in Hailsham and I think Sheba and Kitty Little were still with us but this may be a feline hallucination.  I’ll ask Mum.  I have a memory of finding Sheba dead under the kitchen tap one school morning in Hailsham because she had eaten string and was trying to drink water to lubricate herself.  Pets give you these horrific moments and even if they live long, they will inevitably die before you do.  Certainly by the time Rebecca was born we had grey/white Lucy who lived a very long life and eventually died as Becky turned 18.   Once I moved to London for university in 1976 there were no pets allowed in Halls of Residence beneath the Post Office Tower, however when I lived in Finsbury Park with Mumtaz in the early 80s we had Monty, another tabby, and when I left, in 1985, he stayed.  Or did he? I think maybe he moved in with me for a bit, then went back to Mumtaz…

London 1990 – Honey, Hardy & me

In the mid-80s I got a flat in in Archway Road N6 and when Jenny moved in we got two beautiful Siamese kittens, Hardy and Honey.

Hardy and Honey, about six months old

Such beautiful animals, they both talked a great deal and were sweet companions.  One night when we came in from a theatre show they were missing – then a small miaow led us to the top of the wardrobe where they were nervously looking down.  Then a movement under the bed – a Ginger Tom ran out through the cat door into the back garden.  He had bullied them.  Eaten their food.  Ginger Toms do that in my experience.  Anyway a few weeks later the same thing happened.  There Hardy and Honey were again, on top of the wardrobe.  We had discussed what we would do if it happened again.  Plan A.  Jenny walked down to the cat door and locked it.  Then the Ginger Tom (for it was he!) ran back there and got trapped in the bathroom (which was the back room due to the weird Housing Association conversion we were in).  I ran a tap and filled a jug. Ginger Tom was hissing and growling and Honey had come down for a ringside seat and got trapped in the room.  I tipped water onto the Ginger Tom’s head until he submitted, then finally opened the catflap and out he went.  We never saw him again. Nor did Honey or Hardy.

Hardy in Highgate, 1992

When we went to Scotland on holiday once a year – a 12-hour drive up to the West Coast & the islands – we would take the Siamese with us.  They would be locked in the cottage when we went for walks.  I remember Hardy growling at the sheep one morning.  When we were in Los Angeles Jenny’s school friend darling Betty would stay in our flat and look after them.  We would go back and forth.  Then when we returned from Los Angeles in 1995 we knew we wanted to move out of Highgate.

Honey got out the front door on the day we packed up the van to move temporarily to Kilburn and sometime that night got run over on that busy road.  Heartbreaking doesn’t begin to describe it.  I had to scrape her body off the road with a shovel and bury her in the back garden.  I felt sick.  Later we got another strange Siamese called Tia who never quite fitted in, never liked Jenny but used to swoon at me.  Hardy and Tia came to Brighton with us but we were away so much during that period – in LA and elsewhere that we eventually gave them away to a lovely old lady who had just lost her two Siamese and needed some grown ones because she couldn’t bear raising another kitten.  She would write to us about them every now and again which was lovely.  They died there in the Sussex countryside about ten years ago.

Marvin aged 20 weeks

At some point in 2004 we visited Stockholm with Amanda Ooms and met her sister Sara who had helped Andy Baybutt and I with The Murmuration (see My Pop Life #87) and met her new kitten Otis.  What a great animal!  He was a Devon Rex breed, with only one type of fur (most cats have three : down, fur & guard fur) and he was super-intelligent and friendly.  Bless Otis he passed away last week (Feb 2019) aged 15.  Anyway we were ready to re-cat ourselves and decided to get a Devon Rex, then found Marvin from a breeder.  Such a beautiful little boy he was, who would climb up from the ground up my legs, my body up to my shoulder and sit there.  He lasted a mere 9 weeks before cutting his mouth on a wicker basket and getting very weak. We took him to the vet who did a blood test and told us he had a factor 8 deficiency which meant his blood couldn’t clot and a transfusion wouldn’t work he would never live a long life.  That was simply awful.   I held Marvin’s little body to my chest through the night listening as his breathing got shallower and shallower, stroking him and whispering love into his absurdly large ears until he gave a big sigh, a final tiny rattle and passed over.  Jeez that was sad.

Chester

Eventually in April 2008 we decided to brave another Devon Rex and Chester arrived.  What a cat he was.  Like an old chinese man.  Very communicative.  Very funny.  He would crawl under the duvet every night.  After a year we decided to find him a mate.  By then we’d found a breeder that we liked, Michelle on the outskirts of Sheffield, whom we’d dropped in on one day while visiting my dad who lives in West Yorkshire.  Her house was full to the brim with cats, all friendly and smiling, purring and relaxed, draped over the furniture, window ledges, feeding kittens, greeting us.  She had all the queens inside – about twenty five females, and all the males outside in the yard and a back shed.

Michelle’s queen Orientals

Devon Rex mum and smigel kittens at Michelle’s

                Mimi’s mum, and, possibly, a very young Mimi

It is an extraordinary house.  We saw the new brood upstairs of tiny little pieces of Russian Blue Cornish Rex fur and said we’d be back in 10 weeks for a girl.  Mimi came back with us in the Jeep on the 200 mile journey and Chester fell in lust as soon as he laid eyes on her.  We had to separate them for a few nights, then it was obvious (from the howling) that we would have to spey dear Chester. After that they got on famously….most of the time….

Chester, me, Mimi – late 2008

Mimi kitten with Chester aged 15 months

Despite this clear blow to the head, Chester was not very good at fighting

A very special animal, Chester also had a congenital problem, this time with arrhythmia – an uneven heartbeat.  He died aged four while I was filming in Nashville and Jenny and I weren’t getting on.  I flew back and we buried him in the back garden in floods of tears, his early death re-uniting us as a kind of awful sacrifice.

Mimi we felt was lonely then.  We worried about her.  Michelle heard about Chester dying young and offered us another Cornish Rex so I drove up to Sheffield again and came back with the most affectionate cat I’ve ever met – Roxy, a bonkers tortoiseshell female.  Mimi hated her.

Roxy is a one-off weirdo.  I would actually say she has special needs.  In the nicest possible way of course.  She loves to sit on a shoulder.  Feels safe up there. Then she will purr and push her face into my beard, squirming with joy.

She would get out of the garden and wander down the road shouting at the top of her voice as if she was lost.  People would pick her up and say hi where do you live?  I could hear them over the garden trellis. We put a collar on her with the address and my mobile phone number engraved on it. One day, sitting in the Peace Statue cafe in Hove with Andy my phone went.

“Hello, do you have a cat called Roxy?”

“Yes I do”

“She’s in the hospital”

“OK thanks I’ll come and get her”.

Luckily I was on my bike and when I got home there was a nurse on my doorstep with Roxy and her winking eye, like butter wouldn’t melt.  After three months, Mimi still hated her. Roxy tried to make friends but no.  What to do?

Boy’s first night in Brighton – oh god, there’s two other cats here…

Get another cat!  This time it was to Basingstoke and the last of a litter, a beautiful black Oriental.  I met his father who was a Siamese and his mother who was a mushroom Oriental softie.  Roxy swooned for the Boy as soon as she saw him.  She licked him, chased him and bit his throat which was rather alarming.  But that is what cats do when they play.  She was teaching him how to fight.

She has taught him everything since.  They sleep together, wash each other, play and fight together. Mimi kept her disdainful character intact, and when it was that we came to move to New York City, we brought Roxy & Boy with us and left Mimi in Brighton.  Mimi is an outside cat, she was the queen of that hill in Kemp Town.

Mimi & Delilah-Rose, Brighton 2008

So we found her a home in Norfolk and later received some lovely photos of her looking very pleased with herself as a nine-year old girl’s pet and the only cat in the house (her one true desire).

Roxy we wouldn’t allow outside because she got lost every time, and Boy could take it or leave it – and he liked to bring back worms and slow worms (legless lizards) from outside and leave them – alive – in the kitchen.  But we’d already decided not to let the cats out in Brooklyn because of

TOP CAT!

THE MOST EFFECTUAL TOP CAT !

The local alley cats here have thick fur because they sleep outside in all weather. They slouch and have scars and behave like tough guys.  They are huge.  They are contemptuous. They probably have leukemia.  We imagined them meeting Roxy & Boy and speaking in Brooklynese :

“Yo. What’s your name – puss-in-boots?  What you doin’ down here? Welcome to the  hood.  You is European?! Don’t make me fuck you up kitty kitty.“

Scarcely anyone in New York speaks like this anymore, they’ve all moved out to Long Island or Westchester, or Jersey.  I mean it’s noticeable when you hear that Top Cat twang on the streets, like an endangered species.  But I think the cats still talk like that even if the people don’t.  The cats haven’t been gentrified yet (although there are gangs of “cat lovers” who go out and spey them and give them injections for leukemia).   So Roxy and Boy stay in. They have space, pretend trees to climb, food, beds, water, toys, windows to look out of with sunshine coming in.  Now and again Boy demands go out out onto the stairs so he can scratch the stair carpet.  Actually he is very dog-like.  He plays fetch and guards the perimeters.  They are content.  I love them with all my heart as I have loved all my cats, but maybe a little bit more.  They are, of course, our little kids.

Mimi & Chester in Brighton

Boy & Roxy in Brooklyn

  These are the two opening sequences I remember :

A sample of one episode ‘the maharajah of pookajee”

My Pop Life #215 : Top Cat – Hoyt Curtin Top Cat  -  Hoyt Curtin "The indisputable leader of the gang" *Warning : Cat Porn* *

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Con’s stance is noble

The Blythe Hill Tavern on the Catford and Forest Hill border is one of south London’s best boozers. Our reporter popped in for a pint with landlord Con Riordan, who has run the much-loved pub for 30 years

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In a city that sometimes feels overrun with trendy cocktail bars and Prets, finding a decent local boozer can be tricky. Luckily for me I live a stone’s throw from one of south London’s best – the Blythe Hill Tavern on Stanstead Road.

Spread over three separate rooms, the Blythe is traditional, welcoming, quirky and authentic. Even if you aren’t fortunate enough to live nearby, there’s plenty to attract you through its doors.

For starters, it has an exquisite selection of ales and ciders that are guaranteed to be served up with courtesy and good conversation.

Then once a month on a Wednesday there are open mic poetry nights, and on Thursday nights it hosts traditional Irish sessions where musicians show up with a plethora of instruments and entertain the patrons.

“We had a girl turn up here with a harp last Thursday,” landlord Con Riordan tells me. “She’s a student at Goldsmiths; she had to carry it all the way on the bus. Unbelievable.”

Despite moving from Limerick to London in 1974, Con’s southern Irish accent is still wonderfully intact. He is warm and engaging company and has an endearing habit of finishing sentences with “unbelievable”, or “incredible”.

Like so many of the Irish community who moved to London at that time, Con originally settled north of the river in Kilburn.

“I just came over here on spec and worked in the building trade and different things. Nowadays it’s very trendy to be Irish,” he laughs, “but back then there were a lot of bombs going off, it was a difficult era.

“I actually managed a bar for Whitbread in Streatham for 10 years called The John Company, which no longer exists. I had been working in bars part-time when the opportunity came up [to take over the Blythe]. Someone said, ‘Why don’t you have a pop at it yourself?’ so we took on the lease.”

As well as the pub in Streatham, Con also ran pubs in north London including one in Finsbury Park. “Pubs seemed to be much more of a community thing in those days,” he says. “There’s still a big community spirit in this pub, but every pub in London seemed to have it at that time.

“Beer was much cheaper, accommodation was cheaper, people had less money but I think they had a better standard of life.

“People didn’t realise it at that time, but back then everything happened in the pub. You got your work in the pub, you got paid in the pub, you got sacked in the pub. It was just a different ball game.”

In a previous incarnation, around the turn of the 20th century, the pub was a hotel called the Blythe Hill Hotel. Con says that changed some time around the 1940s, but upstairs is still used as accommodation, mainly for staff and people visiting the area.

Thirty years on from taking over the pub, Con’s enthusiasm for the place hasn’t waned. He has a clear knack for what makes it successful and works hard to ensure it continues, regularly putting in 80-hour weeks.

“It’s all down to the effort of the staff and the personal touch we offer,” he says. “It’s a team effort, that’s what makes this house. I think a lot of the new pubs, the yuppie pubs, they’ve sort of lost the run of themselves a bit; they seem to be a bit too clinical, too cold.”

It really is the little things that make this pub great. For example, the staff dress traditionally, wearing a shirt and tie. One of them, a gentleman called John Craven from County Down whom Con describes as “the smartest man in the house” is in his 80s and still works regular shifts.

Many of the Blythe’s customers have been coming in for decades. “One of our oldest customers is a Dublin man called Mr Peter Cully. He’s 90-odd and he’s been using the pub nearly 60 years – incredible,” Con tells me. “He used to say the older you get, the more you drink.”

Mr Wilton Brown is another long-time regular. “He actually came over in the Windrush, he’s 90-odd and he still pops in now and then – not as much these days, but he used to be five nights a week. He used to come in to play cards. Playing cards was a big thing in here with the West Indies community at a time.”

Away from the pub, Con met his wife – who is also Irish, from County Meath – in London and the couple have four grown-up children. An avid Arsenal supporter, he has been going to their matches since he came to London.

“We used to go to a pub called the White Horse on the Liverpool Road after games and it wasn’t unusual for some of the Arsenal team to come in and have a pint that night,” he says. “They weren’t superstars as they are now and they all lived locally.”

One of the things that has always struck me about the Blythe is the fantastic mixture of young and old it attracts. Millennials mingle effortlessly with older generations and the banter is as free-flowing as the Guinness. While the bar has obvious Irish connections, the clientele are diverse, reflecting the area’s multiculturalism.

Sport is a big thing in the Blythe, with TVs dotted around the place showing the Premiership, horse racing or whatever event is currently capturing the nation. “They do like a bit of sport in here,” Con says.

“We have Sky and we show a lot of the Irish games, GAA football and hurling. Rugby’s our main sport in here; the European club matches as well as the Six Nations of course.”

One of the most charming aspects of the Blythe is its layout. Spread over three rooms, the front room is small and snug with its own bar. The back room is larger and typically livelier, especially when there’s a match on.

The walls are tastefully decorated with quirky Irish keepsakes and sporting memorabilia. It has recently been included in CAMRA’s (Campaign for Real Ale) latest edition of Britain’s Best Real Heritage Pubs, recognised for its original interior features.

The pub has also won plaudits for its excellent selection of real ales and ciders. “We just won the south-east London CAMRA pub of the year award, for the fourth time,” Con says. “We’ve also won the south-east London CAMRA cider pub of the year this year.”

In fact the awards seem to just keep piling up for the Blythe. In 2015 it was named “best in London” by the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood. Earlier this year the Independent praised it for having London’s best pint of Guinness.

“We’re well known for our real ales and we’ve also got 15 different ciders on tap at the moment,” Con says. “The real ales are our best-selling drinks, followed by Guinness. Dark Star Hophead is the best seller; Harvey’s Sussex Bitter is another very good seller.

“We do a range of guest ales such as Brockley Pale Ale. We try to use the local breweries as much as we can. There are some very good ales produced around here.”

The quality of available ales is clearly something Con takes a lot of pride in. He shuns some of the more hackneyed lagers, which he calls “mass produced plonk – I mean just absolute garbage”.

Although the Blythe doesn’t do food, hungry punters are catered for by Van Dough – a wood-fired sourdough vintage pizza van, which pulls up on Friday evenings. In the summer, the Blythe’s impressively large, family-friendly beer garden hosts regular barbecues.

Despite its Forest Hill postcode, the back wall of the beer garden is dominated by a rather splendid mosaic welcoming customers to Catford. It’s something I had previously wondered about.

“We allowed a developer the use of our garden to build a couple of houses behind us here,” Con explains. “That actually backs onto Catford and he had the artwork commissioned for us to say thank you. It’s worth around £6,000.”

Chatting to Con, our conversation effortlessly drifts into sport, American history and his love of literature. He makes for interesting and easy company. You could say he epitomises the establishment that he has run for three decades – warm, engaging and friendly.

Before I leave I ask why, at a time when so many local pubs are said to be closing down, does the Blythe continue to thrive?

“You have to work at it,” he says. “If you like what you’re doing, 80 or 90 hour weeks are not a bother. I think that when it becomes a chore, that’s when it’s time to knock it on the head.

“A bit like Arsène Wenger,” he says with a grin.

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