Exhibition at the Royal Academy, March 2025
Victor Hugo
Russell Square
This week's trip to London began with some unexpected exercise. My train that was advertised as arriving at platform one was switched, literally as the train was coming into the station, to another platform. I and everyone else that was trying to catch the train had to run up over the footbridge and down onto …
Ageing
Thirteen years of self portraits reveal a lot of bad hair and some gentle mood swings …
Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
A selection from the exhibition at the Royal Academy, March 2025
The Ankerwycke Yew
It’s a yew tree, in Runnymede. Only twenty minutes from where we live but we had never known of it before yesterday when we were looking for somewhere to walk. We did a beautiful circular walk in the spring sunshine, which took in the tree, the old Benedictine abbey ruins, and a short section of …
Around Paddington
Paddington is not an area of London that you would go to unless you had a very good reason. Yes there are some impressive properties, some nice Georgian terraces and a lot of money. But on the whole the impression you come away with is that of small seedy hotels, transient lives lived behind well …
St James, New Bond Street and Marylebone
As it was a cold but sunny day we decided to take a walk in London with the aim of ending up in a vegan café that we have never tried before. Actually we never made it to the café as we became too absorbed in enjoying the walk, one of the pubs, and Daunt’s …
Electric Dreams
No not the song or the “Twilight Zone" style tv series, but an exhibition that runs until June at Tate Modern. The theme is tech meets human, so in a funny way very contemporary - except the exhibits are mostly curated from the 70s, 80s and 90s when the theme music to Doctor Who exemplified …
Battersea, Chelsea and Victoria
Photographs from Battersea, Chelsea and Victoria My current obsession is to plot out a rough area for a walk around London then, armed with camera and an egg sandwich, to go explore. Except today I didn’t take a sandwich and ended up eating a very good but slightly expensive sourdough toastie and a glass of …
Fitzrovia and Soho – January 2025
This was a me day - or rather it was eventually, as I didn’t get up and out as early as I had expected. After looking for Houdini Henry the cat who had escaped at 3am, I had to get up at 8am to fix up the hole in the fencing where he had managed …
Eyecatching 