Beijing
My asthma-addled lungs don’t react too well to Beijing’s extreme air pollution, so it’s not on my tourist list. But as this is where the twenty…
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum is one of those places where I would like to hide behind an exhibit and get locked in overnight. Clocking in at New York’s…
Festival No. 6 2014
Wales, sunshine, swimming in the estuary on the set of ‘The Prisoner’ – why can’t it be Festival No.6 every weekend? 2013 Headline acts: London Grammar;…
Stranger on the Shore
RIP Acker Bilk. I revised for my GCSEs to my Dad’s Acker Bilk LPs, and while I may have failed French, I nevertheless learned that there…
Tangled Yarns
The William Morris Gallery has done it again, with another great guest exhibition. This time Alke Schmidt’s Tangled Yarns has taken over the space at the…
Under Milk Wood
Radio 4’s Saturday Drama was a real treat yesterday – a re-run of the 2003 adaptation of Under Milk Wood, in which Richard Burton’s unbeatable 1963…
Kingfishers on Llammas meadow
My morning has been brightened by the discovery that E17 now has its very own poetry corner outside Walthamstow Central. Well done to whoever had the…
Pride
Pride is a life-affirming blast of political drama. It joyously, and sometimes poignantly, tells the true story of how a group of gay and lesbian activists…
A Man Called Ove
The Captain Corelli's Mandolin of 2014. We enjoyed it as an audio book for the 8 hour trip from the fjords to Gothenburg, but laughed and…
American Interior: in search of a lost Welsh tribe
“In 1792 John Evans, a 22 year old weaver from Waunfawr in the mountains of Snowdonia, Wales, responded to a plea from the great Welsh cultural…
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