These days, it seems mandatory that central London will be overtaken by charity arty objects: first it was cows, then elephants, then eggs. For six weeks or thereabouts […]
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Thing 86 – Enjoy a Literary Evening at Foyles and Bond with Dickens at Christmas
Imagine me sitting in the wingback chair of an oak-panelled gentleman’s club, perhaps smoking a calabash pipe as you read the following. Dickens. What a towering figure of […]
Thing 772: Do some voluntary work (in a Christmas Fayre)
Every once in a while Spouse gets called upon to help out with a local cause. So one Saturday morning Frances, Chloe and I got to go with […]
Thing 585: Do some Christmas Shopping at Liberty
Oh my giddy aunt. What a shop is Liberty. It isn’t just me that says so: Time Out has voted it number one out of the hundred best […]
Thing 903: visit Apple World
There are some places where one is simply happy. If Holly Golightly had Tiffany’s to go to when she had an attack of the mean reds, I have […]
Thing 93: Bond with a T-Rex at the Natural History Museum
It’s funny how it is the little things you remember most. When I was six my mum took me to the Natural History Museum. There are three things […]
Thing 530: Have your caricature taken
Now here, I am going to tell you the curious story of my profile picture on AngloInfo. When AngloInfo asked me to put my blog on their site, […]