A scrapbook for my life
24th February 2026 A curious and genteel town just outside Cardiff city centre with a mixture of architectural styles - modern, Georgian and Victorian. The rebuilt pier is short but clean and pleasant, as are most of the people. Remarkably, you can get a passable vegan fish and chips which we ate whilst staring across …
This was challenging from the perspective of an out-of-condition 67 year old but I was pleased that I managed to complete it. The weather was unseasonably good - relatively mild, clear blue skies and spectacular low-lying cloud. This particular one sat over Hay like a hat, unmoving. But on the way down the sun was …
A few images from our trip to Hay for the winter festival weekend. We had hoped to have moved down here by this point, but the best laid plans. Day 1: Turning on the lights Joanna Page was the star of the show, but there were quite a few other attractions as well including, of …
Selected images from the exhibition at Tate Britain, November 2025 This definitive exhibition included a number of previously unseen images and several that had only been seen at first publication in the 1940s. In a very well curated series of ten rooms, the story of the evolution of Miller from child model to apprentice artist, …
Royal Academy, October 2025
2025 summer exhibition at the Royal Academy I’ve not enjoyed the summer exhibition in previous years, but on this occasion it was good. I’ve put a small selection of my favourites in the gallery below.
I needed a fix of my favourite city today and I had two objectives at the London Archives, which are described below: some rare tram posters and an exhibition on London during WW2. Now that I have my free pensioners bus pass I have become stingy and avoid the underground (which I have to pay …
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The Design Museum, South Kensington and Holland Park For the third Monday in a row we failed to go and see the Edvard Munch exhibition at the national portrait gallery due to a last minute change of plans, on this occasion TSM discovering that there was a Tim Burton exhibition on at the Design Museum. …
The whole place is of course a ghastly, twee, Richard-Curtis-ruined inner suburb. The shops are expensive, the artisan bakeries wholly impractical, and the Portobello Road stallholders are largely cynical and just want to relieve tourists of their cash. The pubs are surprisingly edgy and the Greggs, the Sainsbury’s Local and the Tesco Express are probably …
Eyecatching 