I sit here writing to you today from Ducks Deck Canny about yesterday’s trip to Care Guilty Buns. Or more specifically to check out the Epic Iran exhibition at Pokers Apple Lame, after which Mrs P and I enjoyed an early dinner at Punt Limp Trucks before heading home to Hands Second Boat. You either … Continue reading Three Words
I’m no art expert, and I’d not try to convince you otherwise. I’m not even an art amateur. I could list off a few famous names, sure. The obvious ones. Picasso, Van Gogh and Constable. But I’d be hard pushed to match many pieces of artwork with their creator. Sure, I could point at a … Continue reading London 2021
I’m still alive. Love, London x
I’ve caught the train to London twice in the last six weeks. Both times for a day trip. Leisure, not business. The first, in early September, to go see the British Museum. And again last week, with Mrs P, to see a photographic exhibition at Somerset House, followed by a 90 minute tour through a … Continue reading The Sleeping Giant
The view from the Bournemouth to London train as it approaches Waterloo station.
London has changed aplenty during my lifetime. Parts of the capital have been utterly transformed. Mostly for the better? That depends on who you ask and which part of the city you are referring to. It's a big place. Great swathes of the centre have undergone a process known as gentrification. Balham in the south, … Continue reading Lordification of Kings Cross
If I have a complaint about London, it is that it sometimes lacks colour. Especially in winter. The skies are grey. The buildings are, more often than not, white or a pollutant inspired shade of grey. There are exceptions. The red bricked buildings of Kensington spring to mind. And now there is this marvellous creation … Continue reading London in Colour
The Mexile 