A scrapbook for my life
Once you get overwhelmed by Camden (and you will, as the shopping experience has grown eightfold in the last decade) there is a really lovely walk along the regent canal that offers a calm and relaxing experience. We began our father and daughter day out with lunch in a vegan place in the market. Actually …
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12th century abbey alongside an early 18th century Manor House. The ruins are free to visit and managed by English Heritage. Waverley was the first Cistercian abbey in Britain and was dissolved by Henry VIII in the 16th century. It is a serene and beautiful area set alongside the river Wey two miles south of …
Exhibition at the Royal Academy, March 2025
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 …
Thirteen years of self portraits reveal a lot of bad hair and some gentle mood swings …
A selection from the exhibition at the Royal Academy, March 2025
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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