But it makes me very queasy too - and I'm not sure quite why?

British middle-class guilt?...

Dear heaven....is it "that" easy to spot?

I'm not from Queensbury, if that's the intended reference, though my Uncle Frank drank in the Flying Eagle there. He'd done well for himself.

I started going to Tottenham when I was very small as a close friend of my parents was a steward there. He seemed impossibly glamorous due to having a Lotus Cortina and a hand gun and the ability to get us into the press box. I'm not a real fan, obviously not, a real football fan wouldn't emigrate, but I've loosely followed the team as long as I can remember. It didn't seem to be a choice but simply what everyone did.

Oops, my memory is bad, was sure it was Queensbury, or Kingsbury, I only remember as i seem to have lived in similar areas, Belsize Park, Swiss Cottage, Kilburn, Harrow. I remain immune to football.

As I do to the charms of London, north, south, east or west.

Awful place.

Is 'brown hatter' a bad phrase as my nan said she knew lots helpful people at the Palladium who were nice.

I used to love it, well not Kilburn that's a god awful place, but on my last visit i didn't feel it. It wasn't dislike though, just no longer home.