I’m about to enjoy the unbelievable luxury of a whole month off. Firstly huge thanks to Jill for enabling me to do this. I feel very lucky for all her support over me bogging off for four weeks. I’m going back to the tiny island I visited in April. Unlike last time, I will be […]
Some people go on yoga retreats to India and others get their spiritual kicks from a two week bender in Sitges. Me? I like to walk a little pilgrimage route in northern Spain. I’m not religious, I’m just married to a historian obsessed with the Camino de Santiago since he was a young dude. Also known as […]
Where can you see Peter Tatchell, Vic Reeves and Tracy Emin in one weekend? I hardly need to spell out the answer… This weekend was Margate’s Gay Pride, an event that made the papers because of some homemade pre-publicity from one man with a photocopier and a seriously not-on attitude. His leaflets asked residents not […]
The debate about gentrification, the protests over rows of beautiful old houses being demolished, the huge question of how ordinary Londoners are going to be able to live here in future… instead of looking forward today I’m looking back, having found a fascinating film in the BBC archive that itself demonstrates the endlessly changing streetscapes […]
If I’ve got my facts straight – the web can be a confusing landscape – then this little 16th Century castle for sale in Perth and Kinross is the one that Architect and writer Michael Spens commissioned Eduardo Paolozzi to do some ceiling panels for back in 1971. It’s called Cleish Castle and it’s got a […]