Following on from the last blog, I’m still en Paris but before getting out and flaneuring round the boulevards, rues and avenues, and then calling in at some of the café, musees and galleries, I thought I should just have a quick moan about how expensive it is to practice this cultural cruising here in … Continued
Eh bien, aujourd’hui je suis en Paris pour mes vacances d’Avril at which point, having stretched my foreign language skills to their limit to set the scene with some local colour, I think I’d better revert to the classic Anglo Saxon prose style with which regular readers will be familiar in order to relate what … Continued
To South Kensington whereupon exiting the tube station I quickly realise that today must be some kind of school holiday as everywhere is crowded with a kerfuffle of rabbling kids and their over-excited parents all blocking up the pavements along the Exhibition Road. Fortunately, once I’ve navigated my way past the great stone edifices of … Continued
Over to Barbican station and exit out into the post-Easter gloom where the grim, gray lowering clouds seem to provide the perfect harmonic backdrop to the architectural brutality of the depressing surrounds. Even the ripples on the paddling pool water feature and the unrelenting squirts from the fountains outside the Barbican Centre seem particularly tired … Continued
Following on from the conclusion to last week’s discursive, unresolved blog…this time, when I return to the National Gallery, I take the precaution of donning a pair of blinkers and thus manage to avoid being sidetracked by any of the many delightful distractions that fill the multiplicity of rooms containing the Gallery’s own glorious permanent … Continued
Exit the tube at Charing Cross and, as I emerge into the daylight, I’m hit by a decidedly chill wind. It’s definitely all a bit parky, taters and any metaphorical metallic monkey out and about in the urban jungle today would probably be wise to guard his manhood – or maybe that should be monkeyhood. … Continued
Head down to Southwark tube station en route to Tate Modern and today the fifteen-or-so minute walk is actually quite a pleasant perambulation. And, at the risk of lapsing into what I believe might be called an example of the pathetically fallacious, it feels to me like the recent angry icy blasts from the east … Continued
Head on down to Oxford Circus and emerge from the underground straight into the icy blasts of a wind that has, at least according to the TV meteorologists, hurtled itself here non-stop across the tundra and over the Urals, all the way from the dismal dystopian depths of the eternal Siberian winter. Doubtless this is … Continued
Down to Pimlico and round to Tate Britain to take a look at their latest show All Too Human which – since it’s occupying a dozen rooms of the main display area and running for the next six months right through until the end of August – must, I suppose, be intended as the gallery’s … Continued
First of all apologies for some problems with the service delivery over the past few months. It seems that some subscribers weren’t getting the email alerts advising when a new blog had been posted and then, as a result of trying to fix the problem, other subscribers ended up getting multiple alerts and duplicate blogs. … Continued