The Secret Island is the newest offering from Immersive dining trailblazers Gingerline. It follows the premise of Gingerline’s previous events – at a designated date and time you need to be waiting by any station stop on a particular tube (or overground) line. A text will arrive with directions to a top secret location and […]
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Caledonian Park in North London is a peaceful and beautiful park. It was initially built by John Bunstone Bunning and opened in 1855 as the Metropolitan Cattle Market. It had pen areas for he selling and trading of cattle, sheep and pigs filling the land around a central 46metre clock tower. This tower is the treasure of […]
Yet another Open House London has come to a close, and yet again it’s been a wonderful adventure. Open House London is a weekend when buildings through open their doors to people who would normally never get a look inside. Also, it’s free. You can find out more at londonopenhouse.org. In time, I’ll get blog posts up […]
Checked out the wonderful roof garden on the roof of the John Lewis Oxford Street store today – and I think I found the most perfect place to spend a lunch break! The roof has been completely transformed from a normal greying concrete jungle to a more plant-based variety of jungle. Living walls, floral beds, […]
Whilst searching through the non-internet marrow archives (okay, okay, I lost some important work files) I came across these sketches I had done ages ago. I spent an afternoon sketching in Hampstead Heath, and then scanned the pencil sketches in and added some translucent strokes of colour in Photoshop. It’s not my favourite method of […]
Because it’s suddenly and wonderfully summer in this god-forsaken ice covered country everyone has to get outside for as long as humanly possible. This led me and my photographer buddy @EnjoyTheView to go out for a long and wonderful walk by the Thames in Barnes. Our route was pinched from the AA’s Walking In London […]
Halloween’s Immersive adventure was part theatre spectacle, part history lesson. It was a “ghost walk” of sorts, put on by UnrealCityAudio to introduce us to the “Ghosts of Fleet Street.” The tour weaves its way around Fleet Street telling the story of the press and publishing through the ages. Along the route we meet several […]
How to Visit London by A Former Tourist who Still Gets WAY too Excited about Where She Lives. Getting here: We have 5 airports “in” London; Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, Heathrow, and London City. Luton, Stansted and Gatwick often have the cheapest flights but they are NOT that near to London! They will have a (40minute) […]
Today’s @DesignMuseum #SketchBreak was a real challenge. The task? Draw a phone box – from memory. This is extra hard for us half-breed British people. Here’s what they actually look like: Here’s what I came up with- First I put down a layer of red watercolour- some were a bit more uniform than others: Then, […]
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