Shepherd Market?

[Horizontal pleasures]

Am I losing my touch or my urge? I was loitering with intent in the area of Shepherd Market, which for those who do not know it is on the edge of Mayfair in central London near Curzon Street. It has a number of little streets, alleyways or ginnels (pedestrians only)with cafes,  boutiques and restaurants. The doors to apartments above the restaurants used to have little notices about Madame Fifi French Upstairs etc. It is several decades since I was there. The middle aged French ladies kept warm by electric or gas fires while wearing exotic white or pink underwear. They would wash mister happy in warm soapy water before a hand job or blow job or the main event, all covered. No kissing as I recall. To me in my early 20s it appeared very sophisticated and I developed a taste for middle-aged plump homely ladies.

The doors were all closed today, no visible notices or red lights, and I had to go off to my business appointment. I came back after dark and eventually found an open doorway bathed in dim red light and on the back interior wall was a hand written amateur felt-pen notice stating Sample the Magic of Mayfair. Reading it turned me off. Round the corner was another open doorway, inside a note stating that there was a beautiful young lady available. I went and caught the tube home

Am I losing my touch or my urge? If you want to try it the nearest tube is Green Park, then look for White Horse Street or Half Moon Street off Piccadilly. 5 minute walk. Happy hunting
HP

[CatBBW]

Aw, I probably walked past you today!

[Horizontal pleasures]

Aw, I probably walked past you today!

you have a room at Shepherd Market?

[NIK]

I was in the area on Saturday. Didn't see much of interest, but then I was dodging through to try to avoid the horrendous crowds on Piccadilly. 

[martynx8]

I wrote about Shepherd Market on February 25th this year and you will find that post at around number 50 in my contributions to this forum. That thread was about at what age one started punting and, as I was working in Curzon Street in the 1960s, it was the easiest place to punt at virtually any time of the day or evening and only marginally dearer than Soho.

There were lots of brothels in Shepherd Market In those days but very few now. I took a wander down "Memory Lane" during this summer and, whilst retaining its charm as a very old part of London, the whole place has been brought up to date. There are still cafes and bistros but nowhere near as much business upstairs above them!!

Martyn.

[NIK]

I wrote about Shepherd Market on February 25th this year and you will find that post at around number 50 in my contributions to this forum. That thread was about at what age one started punting and, as I was working in Curzon Street in the 1960s, it was the easiest place to punt at virtually any time of the day or evening and only marginally dearer than Soho.

There were lots of brothels in Shepherd Market In those days but very few now. I took a wander down "Memory Lane" during this summer and, whilst retaining its charm as a very old part of London, the whole place has been brought up to date. There are still cafes and bistros but nowhere near as much business upstairs above them!!

Martyn.

How did/do the prices compare with Soho?
And do any other areas apart from these two have walk ups ?

[martynx8]

I have copied, below, my post on the subject of "When did you start punting". I posted it this year, on February 25th.

I haven't punted in Shepherd Market since the late 1960s, when the prices still maintained a level between £3-50 to £10-00. In Soho, at that time, you could get sex for between £3-00 and £5-00 pounds and a hand-job for either £1-00 or £2-00. There was a lady in Lisle Street who gave a lovely HJ for £2-00.

Soho's current  prices are well-documented on this forum and seem to vary from £20-00 to £40-00. However, I haven't punted in Soho for many a year and certainly not since I started using AW in 2006. I'm fairly sure that I haven't used Soho since either the late 1980s or early 1990s, as there were lots of local brothels and plenty of street girls working in cars during those years.

These prices seem ridiculous in today's economic climate but wages were also considerably lower. I had a reasonably good job but didn't earn over £1,000-00 a year until 1969, which was a good wage in those days.

Here is my post referred to above:-


In !967, when I was 24, in Shepherd Market.

It was my second attempt, as I lost my nerve the first time when the lady (Marina) appeared, and "made my excuses and left" as any good NOTW reporter would then have done!! Christ, was I naive and inexperienced, or what?

It cost £3-00 for basic sex, but for £5-00 you got OWO as well.

In those days, tights were rarely affordable to most women, who still wore stockings and suspenders as everyday wear. Lovely memories, and women still regularly wore stockings as late as 1968/9, albeit that hold-ups and tights were then taking over and a golden era came to an end, thanks to Mary Quant.

I was earning £860-00 a year then, so £5-00 was a fair price to pay for a London punt. Also some girls still charged in guineas.

Anyway, I went back for a fiver's worth and visited several times subsequently. She was a cracking lady and washed your entire genitals in warm soapy water both before and afterwards and, to this day, I have never forgotten her oral technique, depite having had many an excellent BJ since.

Sorry to inflict the boring nostalgia of a 70 year old upon you and, yes, I still do punt and I have other threads on UKP as well as several FRs on AW.

Martyn

[martynx8]

Sorry, NIK, I forgot to mention that I have never heard of any other areas of London which have, or had, walk-ups.

Martyn.

[CatBBW]

you have a room at Shepherd Market?

No, I was in the area.

[Horizontal pleasures]

No, I was in the area.

I was not being serious ... but when / if you ever do in calls send me a PM thanks

[Festisio]

I work there.  Will keep an eye on it this week but sounds par for the course.

[willie loman]

That's where Jeffrey archer met monica, as I recall.

[jimmyjohn]

Went to one of the walk-ups in Shepherd's market today with two flats and discovered that the going rate is £80 for sex and oral. The woman who was working there was quite dark and busty, and someone I recall used to work in the same flat in Soho that Angela works from in Berwick Street In Soho.

[LL]

Went to one of the walk-ups in Shepherd's market today with two flats and discovered that the going rate is £80 for sex and oral. The woman who was working there was quite dark and busty, and someone I recall used to work in the same flat in Soho that Angela works from in Berwick Street In Soho.

That may be true regarding the rates but as you'll see on my own thread about this - there is potential for huge discounts when they're not busy.
https://www.ukpunting.com/index.php?topic=45796.msg602906#msg602906

Also, I was there on the same day as the OP and spotted two walkups which were open, during the daytime (around lunchtime).

Should this thread not have been posted in the London section?  I doubt it's of much interest to punters outside of London.

[Aspen]

It cost £3-00 for basic sex, but for £5-00 you got OWO as well.

Interesting you say that. In another thread recently a couple of posters were claiming OWO was very rare even in the 90's and it's only thanks to EE's that it's available now, and were trying to claim I don't know what I'm talking about. But I know very well that there were almost as many that offered it as didn't.

The days of £3/5 are long gone though. I never saw them. lol

[vt]

I have copied, below, my post on the subject of "When did you start punting". I posted it this year, on February 25th.

I haven't punted in Shepherd Market since the late 1960s, when the prices still maintained a level between £3-50 to £10-00. In Soho, at that time, you could get sex for between £3-00 and £5-00 pounds and a hand-job for either £1-00 or £2-00. There was a lady in Lisle Street who gave a lovely HJ for £2-00.

Soho's current  prices are well-documented on this forum and seem to vary from £20-00 to £40-00. However, I haven't punted in Soho for many a year and certainly not since I started using AW in 2006. I'm fairly sure that I haven't used Soho since either the late 1980s or early 1990s, as there were lots of local brothels and plenty of street girls working in cars during those years.

These prices seem ridiculous in today's economic climate but wages were also considerably lower. I had a reasonably good job but didn't earn over £1,000-00 a year until 1969, which was a good wage in those days.

Here is my post referred to above:-


In !967, when I was 24, in Shepherd Market.

It was my second attempt, as I lost my nerve the first time when the lady (Marina) appeared, and "made my excuses and left" as any good NOTW reporter would then have done!! Christ, was I naive and inexperienced, or what?

It cost £3-00 for basic sex, but for £5-00 you got OWO as well.

In those days, tights were rarely affordable to most women, who still wore stockings and suspenders as everyday wear. Lovely memories, and women still regularly wore stockings as late as 1968/9, albeit that hold-ups and tights were then taking over and a golden era came to an end, thanks to Mary Quant.

I was earning £860-00 a year then, so £5-00 was a fair price to pay for a London punt. Also some girls still charged in guineas.

Anyway, I went back for a fiver's worth and visited several times subsequently. She was a cracking lady and washed your entire genitals in warm soapy water both before and afterwards and, to this day, I have never forgotten her oral technique, depite having had many an excellent BJ since.

Sorry to inflict the boring nostalgia of a 70 year old upon you and, yes, I still do punt and I have other threads on UKP as well as several FRs on AW.

Martyn

£5 is about 0.06% of a annual wage of £860. I assume that was a quickie punt under 30 mins.

0.06% of average annual wage now of £26k is £156...that makes a quickie Soho punt at £25-40 look cheap in real terms!! 

You can get some very well-reported ladies for a whole hour in London for £100-120...to coin a phrase from that bygone era, it seems we've never had it so good!! 

[Curious6705]

Interesting you say that. In another thread recently a couple of posters were claiming OWO was very rare even in the 90's and it's only thanks to EE's that it's available now, and were trying to claim I don't know what I'm talking about. But I know very well that there were almost as many that offered it as didn't.

The days of £3/5 are long gone though. I never saw them. lol

OWO became rare in and after the 1980s - apparently there was some kind of health scare.     

[martynx8]

Aspen:

You are correct: owo was as freely available in the 1960s as it is now, and so was cim. 

For the lunatic fringe, bareback was also often on offer. However, condoms were usually used for intercourse but were nowhere near as good as today's products. You could also buy really thick condoms which could be washed and re-used, but I would never have either trusted them or used them and doubt that WGs did either.

vt:

You are also correct with your excellent financial analysis; in today's terms, punters have never had it so good, and possibly not so often!! Prices have not moved so quickly upwards over the years compared with other "goods and services".

A punt in Shepherd Market was invariably understood to mean an unrushed half-hour appointment, unless you chose to pay for longer.

In Soho, by contrast, it was "as long as it takes" with most of the ladies I visited, and some of them went out of their way to ensure that it didn't take very long at all!!

Shepherd Market was a great place to punt in the 1960s and, at the ripe old age of nearly seventy-two, I have some very happy reminiscences of many a lunchtime assignment.

Every good wish to both of you for 2015.

Martyn.

[Nemo]

I have copied, below, my post on the subject of "When did you start punting". I posted it this year, on February 25th.

I haven't punted in Shepherd Market since the late 1960s, when the prices still maintained a level between £3-50 to £10-00. In Soho, at that time, you could get sex for between £3-00 and £5-00 pounds and a hand-job for either £1-00 or £2-00. There was a lady in Lisle Street who gave a lovely HJ for £2-00.

Soho's current  prices are well-documented on this forum and seem to vary from £20-00 to £40-00. However, I haven't punted in Soho for many a year and certainly not since I started using AW in 2006. I'm fairly sure that I haven't used Soho since either the late 1980s or early 1990s, as there were lots of local brothels and plenty of street girls working in cars during those years.

These prices seem ridiculous in today's economic climate but wages were also considerably lower. I had a reasonably good job but didn't earn over £1,000-00 a year until 1969, which was a good wage in those days.

Here is my post referred to above:-


In !967, when I was 24, in Shepherd Market.

It was my second attempt, as I lost my nerve the first time when the lady (Marina) appeared, and "made my excuses and left" as any good NOTW reporter would then have done!! Christ, was I naive and inexperienced, or what?

It cost £3-00 for basic sex, but for £5-00 you got OWO as well.

In those days, tights were rarely affordable to most women, who still wore stockings and suspenders as everyday wear. Lovely memories, and women still regularly wore stockings as late as 1968/9, albeit that hold-ups and tights were then taking over and a golden era came to an end, thanks to Mary Quant.

I was earning £860-00 a year then, so £5-00 was a fair price to pay for a London punt. Also some girls still charged in guineas.

Anyway, I went back for a fiver's worth and visited several times subsequently. She was a cracking lady and washed your entire genitals in warm soapy water both before and afterwards and, to this day, I have never forgotten her oral technique, depite having had many an excellent BJ since.

Sorry to inflict the boring nostalgia of a 70 year old upon you and, yes, I still do punt and I have other threads on UKP as well as several FRs on AW.

Martyn

This corresponds to my own experiencel. My initiation to punting was in Shepherds Market in 1972. Standard price was £5 with a ten-shilling tip to the maid. It seemed to be on a "till you come" basis, but in those days I came pretty quickly.

[JamesFD]

If you are interested in walk-ups these blogs may be worth a look:

External Link/Members Only

This wiki was useful but it seems to be offline at the moment:
External Link/Members Only
 

[Aspen]

Aspen:

You are correct: owo was as freely available in the 1960s as it is now, and so was cim. 

I thought so. I've not noticed any change in the rate at which it's offered, at all. I vaguely remember there being menu's in some places that listed it as an option. Quite a large proportion swallowed, and there were also the rush out and spit as well.

When you get rabid posters ganging up and saying you are completely wrong, you do have to re-examine yourself a bit. One of them even said I had an anti EE agenda, but I think it's quite clear from various posts on this forum that many EE's are quite dodgy, especially Romanians. Why would I? The only ones who have an agenda are those that have a vested interest - how many pimps are there on this site?

Having chanced upon EE's all I can say is that the rapid price/service degradation and the "no understanda da English" that you invariably seem to get speaks for itself.

For the lunatic fringe, bareback was also often on offer. However, condoms were usually used for intercourse but were nowhere near as good as today's products. You could also buy really thick condoms which could be washed and re-used, but I would never have either trusted them or used them and doubt that WGs did either.

I've not heard of washable ones before. Do they really exist?

I've been offered bareback at various times, often completely out of the blue. It obviously goes on quite a lot, so buyer beware. You're likely to get more than you bargained for, and the clinics don't do a brisk trade for no reason. I don't see why there's always a witchhunt over it though. It smacks too much of hypocrisy when the same people talk freely about owo. We all have to use our own brains and weigh the odds, and I'd rather know where the risks are.

[Curious6705]

I thought so. I've not noticed any change in the rate at which it's offered, at all. I vaguely remember there being menu's in some places that listed it as an option. Quite a large proportion swallowed, and there were also the rush out and spit as well.

When you get rabid posters ganging up and saying you are completely wrong, you do have to re-examine yourself a bit. One of them even said I had an anti EE agenda, but I think it's quite clear from various posts on this forum that many EE's are quite dodgy, especially Romanians. Why would I? The only ones who have an agenda are those that have a vested interest - how many pimps are there on this site?

Having chanced upon EE's all I can say is that the rapid price/service degradation and the "no understanda da English" that you invariably seem to get speaks for itself.

I've not heard of washable ones before. Do they really exist?

I've been offered bareback at various times, often completely out of the blue. It obviously goes on quite a lot, so buyer beware. You're likely to get more than you bargained for, and the clinics don't do a brisk trade for no reason. I don't see why there's always a witchhunt over it though. It smacks too much of hypocrisy when the same people talk freely about owo. We all have to use our own brains and weigh the odds, and I'd rather know where the risks are.

So you remember the 60s now? 

Maybe HP will chime in from a memory from the 50s - and you'll "confirm" that, yes, you remember that too. 

As for rabid - you are the poster who described me and other posters as a "sociopath". 

[Aspen]

So you remember the 60s now?

What ARE you talking about? Where did I mention the 60's? get a grip - if it's possible.

Maybe HP will chime in from a memory from the 50s - and you'll "confirm" that, yes, you remember that too.

I'm not answerable to you chum.

As for rabid - you are the poster who described me and other posters as a "sociopath".

I don't suppose you know the difference.

Empty vessels make the most noise, and that's what you do when you can't bear to read about the experiences of ours / their opinions. Personally I think what you've got to say isn't relevant to what we are discussing. But I wouldn't deny anyone else the opportunity to read it. They can make their own minds up.

You're just a forum bully, but you're not going to make any difference to me.

[Horizontal pleasures]

<<Maybe HP will chime in from a memory from the 50s >>

I do not chime, no bells in my batfry.

 I first punted in the early 1960s. Shepherd Market, Soho, Bayswater, Hulme (Manchester) etc., and then a few years later Rendezvous contact magazine.

[Curious6705]

<<Maybe HP will chime in from a memory from the 50s >>

I do not chime, no bells in my batfry.

 I first punted in the early 1960s. Shepherd Market, Soho, Bayswater, Hulme (Manchester) etc., and then a few years later Rendezvous contact magazine.

Apols for taking your name in vain - I merely reached for our most celebrated senior punter - "batfry" that's a good one - haven't heard that before. 

[Curious6705]

What ARE you talking about? Where did I mention the 60's? get a grip - if it's possible.

I'm not answerable to you chum.

I don't suppose you know the difference.

Empty vessels make the most noise, and that's what you do when you can't bear to read about the experiences of ours / their opinions. Personally I think what you've got to say isn't relevant to what we are discussing. But I wouldn't deny anyone else the opportunity to read it. They can make their own minds up.

You're just a forum bully, but you're not going to make any difference to me.

How am I a bully?

I called you out as "Easily confused, confrontational attitude, comically arrogant, and a fantasist." on a thread in which you were flinging insults at anyone who disagreed with you - and it's easy to demonstrate what I mean by quoting your posts.

In your first response to me on that thread you started with the insults - as you have done with many other posters before and since.

[stayer]

I had OWO from two visits to a middle-aged Frenchwoman in a walkup in Lisle St in 1981. She washed my cock, sucked it, and we had bareback sex in two positions - her on top and then me on top. I later had OWO from another WG in some other Soho walkup. Of course I won't do anything like that now, but I really knew nothing about the danger of unprotected sex in those days.

[Curious6705]

I had OWO from two visits to a middle-aged Frenchwoman in a walkup in Lisle St in 1981. She washed my cock, sucked it, and we had bareback sex in two positions - her on top and then me on top. I later had OWO from another WG in some other Soho walkup. Of course I won't do anything like that now, but I really knew nothing about the danger of unprotected sex in those days.

I'm sure you did. IIRC the AIDS campaign in the media did not really get under way until the mid-1980s. 

I recall reading in the Sunday Times what a shock to the system the AIDS campaign was, as the 60s had ushered in a free love era with the attitude that there was nothing to fear because a dose of the clap was easily dealt with by antibiotics.

[akauya]

Just to let you know I created a  Shepherd Market walk ups page on the wiki.

External Link/Members Only

If anyone has any up to date info, do please let me know.

[Sedlmayer]

I have copied, below, my post on the subject of "When did you start punting". I posted it this year, on February 25th.

I haven't punted in Shepherd Market since the late 1960s, when the prices still maintained a level between £3-50 to £10-00. In Soho, at that time, you could get sex for between £3-00 and £5-00 pounds and a hand-job for either £1-00 or £2-00. There was a lady in Lisle Street who gave a lovely HJ for £2-00.

Soho's current  prices are well-documented on this forum and seem to vary from £20-00 to £40-00. However, I haven't punted in Soho for many a year and certainly not since I started using AW in 2006. I'm fairly sure that I haven't used Soho since either the late 1980s or early 1990s, as there were lots of local brothels and plenty of street girls working in cars during those years.

These prices seem ridiculous in today's economic climate but wages were also considerably lower. I had a reasonably good job but didn't earn over £1,000-00 a year until 1969, which was a good wage in those days.

Here is my post referred to above:-


In !967, when I was 24, in Shepherd Market.

It was my second attempt, as I lost my nerve the first time when the lady (Marina) appeared, and "made my excuses and left" as any good NOTW reporter would then have done!! Christ, was I naive and inexperienced, or what?

It cost £3-00 for basic sex, but for £5-00 you got OWO as well.

In those days, tights were rarely affordable to most women, who still wore stockings and suspenders as everyday wear. Lovely memories, and women still regularly wore stockings as late as 1968/9, albeit that hold-ups and tights were then taking over and a golden era came to an end, thanks to Mary Quant.

I was earning £860-00 a year then, so £5-00 was a fair price to pay for a London punt. Also some girls still charged in guineas.

Anyway, I went back for a fiver's worth and visited several times subsequently. She was a cracking lady and washed your entire genitals in warm soapy water both before and afterwards and, to this day, I have never forgotten her oral technique, depite having had many an excellent BJ since.

Sorry to inflict the boring nostalgia of a 70 year old upon you and, yes, I still do punt and I have other threads on UKP as well as several FRs on AW.

Martyn

I thought you were a prominent barrister 

[martynx8]

I was, indeed, a barrister but have never claimed to be a prominent one.

What is there in my post regarding Shepherd Market which prompts your comment?

Martyn.

[Sedlmayer]

I was, indeed, a barrister but have never claimed to be a prominent one.

What is there in my post regarding Shepherd Market which prompts your comment?

Martyn.

Highlighted in red where I quote you, in my post directly above this???
I would have thought a great legal mind, with the attention to detail that that implies, would have spotted it 

I'm very surprised after all your boasting on a previous thread ("You wouldn't last 3 minutes in a court of law with me") that you only describe being a barrister as a "reasonably good job".

[Horizontal pleasures]

barrister?
barista!

[SWLondon]

I saw a fantastic Brazilian girl in Shepherd Market last May. £59 for 20 mind - the place IMO is in borrowed time. Nice area to visit though.

[martynx8]

Sedlmayr:

In 1969, I was only 26 and still a Junior in Chambers; even you must realise that top fees aren't earned from day one.

It is no more than a reasonable job for most barristers and is one of the most financially insecure professions. It takes a long time to become established and to gain a regular client base. I didn't earn significant amounts of money until my mid-thirties and was never amongst the elite. I made a reasonable living, and that's all.

HP:

The barista joke was hilarious the first time it was cracked by another poster some days ago, and on a different thread. I've read, and enjoyed, many of your posts and I know that you can do better than this!!

Martyn.

[martynx8]

Sedlmayr:

Apologies, my eagle-eyed legal mind has spotted my mistake in typing your name without an "e".

If you wish to sue, then I can recommend a good barista!!

Martyn.

[Sedlmayer]

Sedlmayr:

Apologies, my eagle-eyed legal mind has spotted my mistake in typing your name without an "e".

If you wish to sue, then I can recommend a good barista!!

Martyn.

Yes, and you've just done it again... . Win a lot of cases did you?

Also, surely a barrister would know that spelling someone's name wrongly isn't defamation, so why/how could I sue you?

[LL]

There's a lot more bitching in this thread than talk about Shepherd Market. Can't you two take your bickering to PM? 

[Sedlmayer]

There's a lot more bitching in this thread than talk about Shepherd Market. Can't you two take your bickering to PM? 

Strange Admin appointed you a mod and never told anyone.

Put me on "ignore" if it bothers you so much.

[martynx8]

You're annoyed, Sedlmeyer, because you know that I am ridiculing you, and you don't like it one little bit.

LL has also easily riled you, but he is absolutely correct in what he says. Therefore, I will not be drawn into posting anything further on this thread, whatever you may choose to type after you have read this reply.

In fact, I will probably make this my last posting altogether on UKP and call it a day. Many a good thread has been started in the debating sections of this excellent Forum, only to be progressively ruined by childish posters intent upon scoring points off each other, whilst adding little or nothing to the debate.  Also, despite the Rule regarding "no member excessively abusing another", I have been appalled at the use of insults such as C*** and F****** C*** in posts, without either a reprimand or ban. I never use these disgusting words in my daily life and would certainly never include them in a post. If these don't amount to excessive abuse, then what does?

Maybe it's an age thing; I don't know. But I've had enough and won't be back for more. "Good Riddance"! I hear you say.

I would like to thank those posters who have regularly entertained me with their wit and wisdom over the years. In particular:- Marmalade; Festisio; Vivago; HP; Sir Frank; RC and Anhel.

Martyn.

[martynx8]

Sorry.

JRC NOT RC.

Martyn

[Sedlmayer]

Flounce off, then, My Learned Friend - someone who finds words like fuck and cunt "disgusting" has no place on a forum where men discuss having sex with prostitutes anyway 

"You're annoyed, Sedlmeyer, because you know that I am ridiculing you, and you don't like it one little bit."
If you are ridiculing me, it must be damned subtle, because I can't see it 
You've actually been quite polite, considering I'm calling you out as a liar 

[Horizontal pleasures]

deviation and repetition

[LL]

Tedium endurance and dicksize-contending.

[Mr Farkyhars]

Just a couple of points

That's where Jeffrey archer met monica, as I recall.

That could well be! Shepherd Market must always have been more expensive than Soho because Mayfair is a rich district, and I expect when Archer was rolling in dough he hung around there looking for talent. But IIRC, from the court coverage, he and MC did the deed in one of the cheap hotels behind Victoria station, which - I heard tell - isn't even there any longer.

[Mr Farkyhars]

£5 is about 0.06% of a annual wage of £860. I assume that was a quickie punt under 30 mins.

0.06% of average annual wage now of £26k is £156...that makes a quickie Soho punt at £25-40 look cheap in real terms!! 

Surely more like 0.6% (six-thousandths) in each case

[vt]

Surely more like 0.6% (six-thousandths) in each case

Yes, you're right, I had in my head six-thousandths (x 0.006) and got the amounts in £ correct, but expressed it as the wrong percentage. 

[Rajandoo]

Anyone been to shepherds market recently?  Is is any action still available there or near by in mayfair?

[webpunter]

Did anyone see Jeffery Archer on their travels ?