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The Sex Party, Menier Chocolate Factory
This is a story about a suburban sex party, set in a middle-class house in Islington. The play is set in the kitchen, all the libidinous stuff takes place off stage, in the lounge and we see the cast...
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Capital Ring – Section 5
Stratham Common to Wimbledon Park This section is different to the last as it has suburban roads as well as parks and some beautiful and interesting building along the route. We leave Streatham Common...
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12 Lazy Sunday – Small Faces This was originally a track on the 1968 album “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake”. The song was released as a single in April that year without the band’s knowledge and reached No.2...
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Joe Allen, Burleigh St, Covent Garden
Joe Allen has been in London since 1977. I first went there in about 1979 and it has been, on and off, one of my favourite restaurants in town ever since then. When I heard that the building it was...
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V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington
The V&A calls itself “The world’s leading museum of Art and Design”, a bold claim. In a city that has many of the greatest museums in the world, the Victoria and Albert is among the best of them....
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13. Maybe It’s because I’m an Irish Londoner – Biblecode Sundays This is a great London song for those of us who grew up in London with Irish parents, or those who have moved from Ireland to London....
View ArticleIndoor Skydive with iFLY
An indoor skydive is an experience where you lean into a wind tunnel and the gushing wind lifts you up and keeps you aloft. Never having done a skydive from a plane, I cannot say how similar the...
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St Paul’s by William Wordsworth
I have to thank Tim Miller and his podcast “Human voices wake us” for bringing this great London poem to my attention. St Paul’s from Tate Modern Pressed with conflicting thoughts of love and fearI...
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The Other Palace, Victoria, London
The Other Palace started life as St James Theatre in 2012 when it was the first newly built theatre in Central London for over 30 years. It was bought by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, Really Useful Group, in...
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Little Haiti, Miami, Florida
I am spending Christmas and New Year in Miami, so as a change of venue, here are some pictures that I took on a walk around Little Haiti in Miami. I finish with a frozen iguana that fell from a tree...
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