Patience is a virtue. She sits, waiting encased in a formidable transparent shell. Once freed she flows and flows into dots and swirls and characters and forms and stories all envisaged in splendid ways to show their glory. Once freed she lies, permanently, still. Through time she stays, though her colours fade amalgamating into the [...]
As it's almost Christmas it make sense to write a post about Charles Dickens, as A Christmas Carol will likely be watched soon. Last year we visited the Charles Dickens museum and watched a one man show of A Christmas Carol using puppets. When we visited the museum it was recently refurbished after a long [...]
So I had a pretty busy week seeing Neil Gaiman twice: firstly in a sort of concert and secondly in an interview with illustrator Elise Hurst to promote his new illustrated version of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I had been to a Neil Gaiman event previously, when he was promoting Art Matters with [...]
Open House London takes place one weekend every year where you can visit beautiful buildings and participate in walking tours to see magnificent parts of London you wouldn't usually see. Of course, there are some places included where you can visit usually, but it's a good chance to find out about the not so well [...]
I have seen this food festival but only walked past it for a couple of years now and this year we finally went to it. Part of the Tower of London, tickets give you entrance to the Tower too, so essentially a double visit. If you are a Historic Royal Palaces member then of course you [...]
Continuing our quest to visit five of the Historic Royal Palaces this year, here is my second entry: Kew Palace. For my birthday weekend a few months back we visited the lovely Kew Gardens and Kew Palace, the weather was lovely and we were so tired from walking everywhere but would definitely do it all [...]
This year we got a joint Historic Royal Palaces Membership where you get free and unlimited entry to six royal palaces in the UK and we set ourselves the aim to visit five of them (one is in Ireland). Our first visit was to the Banqueting House in Whitehall many moons ago. Really easy to [...]
Recently we went to the Van Gogh and Britain Exhibition at the Tate Britain. We made the mistake of heading over to the Tate Modern, which is 45 minutes away from the actual exhibition. My bad. When we eventually arrived at the correct place we didn't realise it would be so busy: there were lots [...]
Endless May Dreams 