Head off to Vauxhall tube station and then take a stroll down the Albert Embankment. The bright sunny sunshine of the Easter holiday has now clouded over to become a rather more clammy climactic condition with a slightly oppressive ambience that’s added to by the trio of low-flying helicopters that are circling above and emitting … Continued
As regular readers may recall, a couple of blogs ago I took a journey away from the capital to go to investigate the strangely strange yet oddly normal, youngish-oldish new town that is Milton Keynes and, more specifically, to check out the freshly revamped spaces of its recently revivified MK Gallery. And here, amongst all … Continued
It’s been quite a few years since I last read my copy of Kenneth Clark’s majesterial masterwork The Nude and, frankly, I have to admit that even after extensive brow furrowing, head scratching and nose wrinkling, I still can’t seem to recall any of the characters or plot, let alone who did it or why … Continued
As the earth continues on its inexorable journey around the sun and, by turning another corner, so initiates the Spring equinox to come bounding into view, once more I start to feel the wanderlustical forces of nature rippling their way through the tropospherical ether and a seasonal siren call urging me to escape the confines … Continued