It’s not often that you get to walk through tunnels below the streets of London, especially ones which were never used as a passenger service. But Heather and I did just that below the hill of Mount Pleasant, on an evening visit to Mail Rail.
Can it really be nearly a decade since we visited Bluebell Railway? That seems far too long, so it was with pleasure Heather and I went down with Faith and Dylan to a special Road Meets Rail steam day.
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Heather and I enjoy an animal sculpture trail, so when we heard there was one coming to Canary Wharf, especially one on such a cute theme as guide dogs, we couldn’t resist. Continue reading
Now that I’ve , and given my sluggishness we’ve past the photo embargo time by some weeks, I can catchup with a preview visit to the British Museum’s latest exhibition, Michelangelo: The Last Decades.
Catching up a bit here, from the end of March/beginning of April, which saw Heather and I heading north to my home city of Newcastle, with a bit of an elongated weekend.
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Part of a series of posts trying to catch up with all the things I’ve failed to talk about in the latter half of the year. It’s well documented that Heather and I like a good art trail around a city (such as those produced by Wild In Art), so Continue reading …
It’s the end of November, which can only mean one thing. Advent Calendar time!
Today would have been my mother’s birthday, so it seems somehow appropriate that it sees the publication of A Stroke Of The Pen, collecting the lost works of Terry Pratchett. All those birthday, and mother’s day, and Christmas presents that were the latest Pratchett book, or Discworld calendar or other Continue reading …