Fun

I don’t know about you but the animal I would most associate with Easter is a rabbit, as in the Easter Bunny. I remember being on holiday in Dorset ...

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Easter eggstravaganza

There’s only a little over a week left if you wish to see the Elton John/David Furnish photographic exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Muse...

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Elton @ the V&A

My last fun blog involved a visit to Kew Gardens; so does this one. But this is very different, not least because the emphasis is on the outdoors rath...

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Kew 2

In the Shirley Sherwood gallery at Kew Gardens there is a fascinating indoor exhibition by a renowned British artist, Mat Collishaw. Among the display...

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Quite a sight inside at Kew

Christmas comes early to London’s West End. No sooner is Bonfire Night out of the way than the Christmas lights go on, first of all on Oxford St...

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Having a lights Christmas

Highgate is an eminently pleasant northern area of the English capital. There are many nice shops, quality restaurants and spectacular properties in L...

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Crime amid the dead

Apparently the word ‘sock’ is derived from the Latin word soccus, which means ‘slipper’. But one imagines protective footwear ...

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Putting a sock on it

While the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations have been hogging the headlines, this past Friday and Saturday nights at the Emirates Stadium in North Lo...

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Flowers and the reign