After the visiting The Royal Institution, it was on down to Piccadilly to see the offices of the Linnean Society at Burlington House. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see any samples from their archives of 200 year old plants or anything nifty like that, but there was a pretty awesome Victorian chair which had been [...]
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Open House London 2008: Part 1
I didn't really plan for Open House properly this year (although I did much better than last year), which as just as well, because the transport was so screwy last weekend that I would never have made it in time to half the things I'd planned to see. Instead, I picked a list of things [...]
Deep soup and hay fights
This weekend just gone was the annual Thames Festival, which seems to get bigger and bigger every year. On Saturday, there was also the second Feast on the Bridge, where Southwark Bridge is closed off to traffic and turned into a banqueting area, with tables and chairs stretching the length of the bridge. There were [...]
whisky a-go-go
Whisky1 is a funny drink. I don't mean funny ha-ha, more funny odd. And I don't mean the taste of it (well, not entirely), but the attitude towards it. There's this attitude towards good whisky which definitely makes it "a man's drink" — especially if the whisky in question is a single malt, rather than [...]
