Book review: Up in Smoke by Peter Watts
I have a terrible confession to make, one that will see me shunned by London society, if not drummed out of the city altogether: I […]
Month: April 2016
Hilda Hewlett – Pioneer Aviator
Men outnumber women on London’s Blue Plaques by over seven to one, so it was good to stumble across this in Vardens Road, just off St […]
Bonnington Square: Rus in Urbe with knobs on
There’s a truism that if you venture off the main street almost anywhere in London you’ll discover something new. I do this a lot, sometimes just […]
Bricking It – the Tate Modern Extension
Step out of the back door of the Blue Fin Building (as I did this morning) and rising up in front of you is the […]
In the Clink
In London, the old Victorian prisons are just there, an almost unnoticed background to everyday life; Wandsworth is over the road from my local garden […]
Getting the Blue Badge
Well, I finally went and actually did it and passed the exams to be a fully-fledged London Blue Badge Guide. That means I can now […]