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I spent last Saturday exploring two different industrial sites in south London. The first was the big hot ticket, a tour of the Brunel tunnels, open to pedestrians for the first time in almost 150 years. This was a great opportunity to see what was once known as the Eighth Wonder of the World, especially [...]

Last week also marked the end of the Hundred Days project, and there was a gig to celebrate, as part of the London Word Festival.

It was a pretty good gig: three female comedians and a band, with an accompanying exhibition, The Museum of A Hundred Days. Event organiser Josie Long was pretty funny, although [...]

A couple of weeks ago on Twitter there was a hashtag that caught my eye, #ldnsongs. People were listing all their favourite songs about London, which is the kind of game I love, so I joined in.

After a little while, I discovered it was for a competition and that the song deemed the most [...]

(Working off a backlog of blogposts that are knocking around my hard drive — apologies in advance for the flurry of posts you'll get today.)
A couple of weekends ago a group of us went to visit Chislehurst Caves for Jodi's birthday, and it was great! I found it sort of amazing that there's this huge [...]

If I look out of my kitchen window in the winter, I can see a funny little tower way off at the edge of the horizon (I can't see it in the summer because of that tree in front the window). It's the only remaining piece of what was once a significant market space, opened [...]

On Sunday afternoon I went on a tour given by Owen Hatherley (who, I discovered, is neither nasty, brutal nor short, but instead rather lanky and very nice). It took us to the northern end of the Piccadilly Line, visiting the modernist stations commissioned by Frank Pick (a bit of a design hero here [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend looking at more arty stuff. It started in Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning to see my friend Myk Reeve posing on the fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other. He was the fifth of six people that I've met to appear [...]

As regular readers of this blog know, I like exploring follies, and Sunday's Open House gave me an opportunity to explore two of them in Gunnersbury Park which are not usually open to the public. One of these is known as Princess Amelia's Bath House, a miniature castle that was probably designed and built sometime [...]

En route from The Glasshouse to (see previous post) to meet friends near London Bridge, I wandered past the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. I usually give museums a miss during Open House by dint of the fact that they're accessible at other times, but I had some time to kill and it's been [...]

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 [...]