Today I got to experience my very first English County Show! It’s actually very similar to an American farm show and, specifically, very similar to the Great Allentown Fair! The main difference is the rain. And the mud. Oh god the mud. Here are some photos from the event, which were shot on a Canon […]
I’ve been asked to write a little post for The Great Blog Tour! The idea of The Great Blog Tour is to, by getting bloggers to answer a few simple questions and then pass the questions on to another blogger, spread connections from blog to blog and also learn a bit about who is blogging, […]
I’ve long been a fan of Clare Misselbrook’s work – she uses found materials to create stunning sculptures, and is a wonderfully talented painter. I’m also lucky enough to count her as one of my best friends, and I was thrilled when she let me know about her latest project — and even more thrilled […]
The latest immersive theatre adventure saw my theatre group return for another evening at Southwark’s Babel Towers for the second and third rings of ImmerCity’s The Three Rings of Cirque – entitled Feast and Parade. The first ring, Birthday, we visited on a separate occasion – and you can read about that here. For this […]
The wonderful, rambling, and slightly degraded Shoreditch Town hall is playing host to an Immersive Theatre adventure that brings to life the dark and mysterious world of Phillip Pullman’s Grimm Tales. The performance involves a trip through a basement turned into a fairy tale world while five imaginative fairy tales are told. The evening is described as: […]
For the Easter bank holiday, I jetted off to the stunning Dubrovnik, Croatia. Here are a collection of close up and macro photos from the trip. The photos were taken on my trusty compact Canon Powershot SD780 IS and also a new inherited toy, a Canon EOS 450D.
In the early 19th century, London began to run out of room in churchyards and cemeteries. Descriptions of the existing burials conditions at the time were shocking; in particular the notes from a report prepared by Edwin Chadwick which included descriptions of people seeing “green and putrefying heads” sticking out of graves. (Porter.) New cemeteries […]
I was fortune to visit the incredible Horniman Museum in SouthEast London last summer, and it was a wonderful experience. This museum is easily one of the oddest, and most entertaining, museums in Britain — if not the world. The museum is the private collection of Frederick John Horniman, an affluent tea trader. His collection […]
Since it’s #MuseumWeek, I’ve been digging through my own archives of museum visits — and I realised I had somehow forgotten to post about the gem of a transport themed Aladdin’s cave that is the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum. It’s one of the strangest, but most charming, museums imaginable — but it’s also terribly hard to […]
Here are some sketches from when my darling friend Clare dragged along for a life-drawing class at the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival– but this wasn’t just your average life drawing class. It was an incredible tribute to the female body and mind. The women posing in the group were a wonderful mix to […]
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