First boil 1 LB of cod in salted water and

put aside 1/2 pint of the stock, which you will need for the lemon sauce.

Other ingredients for the sauce are:

2 oz butter
1~ oz flour
the juice from 1 lemon
salt
pepper
1 teaspoonful of sugar
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoonfuls of fresh cream

Melt the butter in a pan, blend in the flour carefully, do not let it brown.

Add the stock, salt, pepper and sugar,

mix the egg yolk in the lemon juice and add to the rest of the mixture

away from heat.

Blend in the cream.

Pour over the fish and serve with boiled potatoes and peas.

(Serves four)

Yusuf/Cat Stevens reminisces

about the sweaty clubs

and record shops of Oxford Street

The musician on how growing up in W1 helped launch his music career

I grew up on New Oxford Street, living above my parents’ busy café. It was a gateway to the most lively street in London at the time – Oxford Street – which informed the rest of my life.

Opposite the café was Collet’s Record Shop, an amazing jazz, blues and folk record store, where I picked up a lot of influences. Then there were the Oxford Street clubs, which I’d hang around endlessly. It was the start of the Merseybeat music boom: you had Eric Clapton, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann and The Animals all playing in venues like 100 Club at 100 Oxford Street, and The Marquee at 165. I saw Chuck Berry in Tiles club and it was so sweaty, I could hardly move.

When music started happening as it did at the beginning of the ’60s, it was an open door. Anybody could do anything. The obvious career choice for me was not to stay at the café and wash dishes, it was to make music. Fast forward a few years to 1966 and Imhofs, another record store nearby, was selling my first single, ‘I Love My Dog’. You couldn’t believe the excitement I had seeing my name on the label in this shop I’d grown up with down the road.

[timeout.com, 02. Nov. 2021]

(das ehemalige Restaurant "Stavros" bzw. "Moulin Rouge"

der Familie Georgiou)

LOCATION
This property at 245-249 Shaftesbury Avenue also has a second entrance at
47-49 New Oxford Street, making it perfectly located between Underground
stations, Tottenham Court Road (Northern Line & Central Line), Holborn
(Piccadilly Line & Central Line) and Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line).

Preparations for a £1 billion upgrade Tottenham Court Road station have
started for the new Crossrail and piazza outside Centre Point.

The location benefits from immediate proximity to Bloomsbury, Covent Garden, Soho, and Mid-Town.

Retail in the immediate surrounding area includes Costa Coffee, Pret a manger and Giotto restaurant.

DESCRIPTION
Formerly a restaurant, this property will soon be renovated for an A1 retail
premises and food use will no longer be permitted.

The property will be available in late 2011.

Current areas:
Ground floor 949 sq ft
Basement trading 906 sq ft
Total: 1,855 sq ft

USE
A1 retail with no food use.

RENT
Upon application.

SERVICE CHARGE
Brecker Grossmith advise our clients in regards to the RICS code of practice-Service Charges in Commercial Property, which is industry endorsed and came in to effect on 1st April 2007. This property is subject to a service charge, to be confirmed upon application.

[gefunden im Oktober 2011]

Home on a kite we fly,
Home on a breeze we blow
Eyeing the folks below and
Watching everybody run,
Each one heading for a different place
Watching everybody hide,
Each behind a different face

Home where the days are long
Back where the people are free,
Home where all sides agree and,
Everybody has a friend, oh
And no one ever has to grab
Everybody shares the love,
Giving everything they have.

Forever forever your lamp will burn
Forever home forever would that you'd learn
That you came with nothing
So with nothing you'll return

Home

You know you're not alone
It's only 'cause you're not a home
That you feel so out of place.
Forever forever your lamp will burn
Forever home forever would that you'd learn

That you came with nothing
So with nothing you'll return

Home where all the mums can sing,
Back where the children don't cry,
Home where you never ask why and
Everybody has enough, and y'don't have to put on clothes
Nobody has to hide 'case everyone already knows.

Despite Cat's life with his parents in their home, where he stayed for many years because "we all understand each other", he has now moved into his own house, structured around his personality.

(48 Walham Grove, Fulham) 

"It's a working house. Three floors, basement ground and upper. The first thing I did was to get the workmen in to knock down the walls so that each floor was just one large room.

The top floor, which is completely white, and the ceiling, which is the natural roof of the house, is light and airy. I like working in these kind of conditions. In fact, there is no furniture in the room at all, except for a piano. That's where I compose and paint when the mood takes me.

My bed rests on a piano platform, which is set into the wall on one side of the studio, and you reach it by going up a short flight of open pine steps.

The ground floor of the house is where I've installed my hi-fl and stereo system around a sunken wall, and I've scattered the floor with large cushions. Then I've got an illuminated tank of tropical fish, too.

Down in the basement, I've built a complete recording studio. It's capable of handling eight tracks and I use it for making demos, which will later be recorded in a more sophisticated studio.
But I'm not using it just myself. I intend to let other song-writer/composers come down here and work in peace and turn out their demos. So I've got an engineer who can control all the gadgetry working there and he handles all that side.

As for the garden, well, it's mostly Japanese influenced, with bamboo screens covering one wall, and there's also a pond, fed by a constantly running stream, which I find soothing and refreshing. The sound of water is so beautiful.

I've got lots more ideas for the garden so that it really will be like a Japanese setting. But it'll take time.

Right now, I've got a tour of the States and then I fly to Japan. From there, I'll take a rest. I've just bought this plot of land on a Greek island.

I said I'd never do that once, because all I'd want to do would be to laze in the sun. Well, that's what I want it for now. So I'm having a house built there for me to spend a few months in each year."

- 1972 -