Last Saturday I spent the day at the seaside in Margate with the Shabby Seaside Appreciation Society. The day didn't start off at its best — our excitement at getting one of the new fast-track Javelin trains at St. Pancras soon dwindled when we found ourselves an hour behind schedule due to "a death on [...]
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belated whisky tasting notes
I went to a whisky-tasting at Vinopolis about three weeks ago, and it occurred to me people might be interested in my tasting notes. So here they are, as written on my phone (but edited for ridiculous typos).
Glenmorangie tasting notes Vinopolis 26 Jan 2010
1- 10yr old
The "original" but has evolved. Fruity to start, [...]
on Sunday evening I found utopia at the bottom of a beer glass
It was also a weekend stuffed with exhibitions and architecture admiration — more to come when I can find the energy and inspiration to write about it all…
London Open House 2009: Saturday part 1
This year I seemed to spend much of Open House exploring artists' studios and workshops. I started at 1 Morocco Street, the studio (and home) of printmaker Norman Ackroyd. The first thing that you notice on entering the studio is the gigantic copperplate press which dominates the centre of the room. The second thing you [...]
partying in a police station
My chums Sarah, Gary and Viviane share a studio in an old police station building in Deptford. They've all made comics about sheep, so they called their studio the Fleece Station. Reading stuff on Sarah's blog about settling in there was pretty interesting, but on Saturday they had a studio-warming party, which gave me an [...]
bring me a song of the sea…
Sometimes it does a soul good to get away from the built-up spaces of a city — even a city with a wide and sweeping, ever-changing tidal river like the Thames — and head out to the coast and walk on a beach for a few hours. Such was the reasoning behind last week's visit [...]
life is just so fine on the solid side of the line
For those of you (if there are any of you) waiting for the next instalment of my Painshill Park posts, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer. What with spending last weekend at Caption, where I took a lot of photos that needed going through, having other things I needed to get done [...]
Wedding Day of the Wedded Days
Last week, I managed not only to forget to mention any of Alternative Press Fair events that were on, I also managed to entirely miss all of them due to feeling a bit under the weather and really not wanting to end up ill and having to miss Jeremy and Tim's wedding on Sunday. Did [...]
It's all too much but I'd do it all over again
After our Chocolate Wine Slush, we were invited to try the cheese board, to which some of us hesitantly said "yes", and "perhaps", but Nikki just came out and firmly said, "today is not a day for saying no" and went ahead and ordered. Spurred on by her enthusiasm, I decided to have one too. [...]
this one's going to haunt me for the rest of my life
It's time for pudding! I love pudding. The dessert section of the menu was rather good, as you'd expect. My favourite dessert was the first one, which was actually two on the same plate; a Bavarois of Lychee and Mango, and a Blackcurrant Sorbet topped with a wafer. The bavarois was deliciously sweet and fruity, [...]
