This is old news but quite an extraordinary story anyway. Last November, this painting – Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) – s...
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Read MoreFUN: Standing up to be counted
This is a little story about The Holme, an opulent premises in a sensational location on the Inner Circle of Regent’s Park, London NW1. This ho...
Read MoreFUN: The Holme is far from being a home from home
Sir David Attenborough has described the Temperate House at Kew Gardens as “a breathtakingly beautiful space”. Who am I to argue with that...
Read MoreFUN: Planting seeds for the future
When I was involved in magazine publishing, there were certain words on a magazine cover that it was generally accepted would make your product more...
Read MoreFUN: A weighty matter for some animal magic (+ Kim Kardashian!)
Is cave exploring really fun? Many people do like it, indeed love it, and in some respects I should, but all considered I prefer my underground experi...
Read MoreFUN: Flunking the spelunking…except in Mallorca
A visit to the Centro Botin in Santander, itself a gloriously located small city (population about 170,000) in Cantabria on Spain’s northern Atl...
Read MoreFUN: A new cultural treasure for Cantabria
Last month I went to see the fabulous Pink Floyd exhibition, Their Mortal Remains, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. Entering t...
Read MoreFUN: Floyd at the V&A – where pigs do fly
This is a story about a serial comma. No – please stay with it; I promise it won’t put you into a coma. This particular piece of punctuati...
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