A child’s dictionary for 2009
bugger celebrity, vandalism & block graphs – give me catkins, brooks, minnows, acorns, buttercups, herons, almonds, marzipan, ash, beetroot, bray, bridle, piglets, porpoises, gooseberries, ravens, carnations, blackberries, tulips, porridge and conkers…. Henry Porter reports of words that have been added and removed in the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary… I think I've just ...
Actionettes 20ft high at Shunt
M has written a fully comprehensive post about the Girls, Girls, Girls night at Shunt, so am linking to it (and borrowing a picture too). It was possibly one of the most exciting gigs we’ve ever done; two stages simultaneously, one of them 20ft up above the bar!!. We’re also dancing the Dulwich Ukulele Club ...
Mosaic step detail from Twinings, The Strand, London
Last week spent an afternoon walking off the cakes between Bea's and the screening of O' Horten (by Bent Hamer – my new favourite director…) via the British Museum. Decided then to take pics of a variety of tiles London steps, and this week continued along the Strand during my two day visit to the ...
‘Scrumptious’ – Bea’s of Bloomsbury weren’t lying either!
Recommended by Miss R D (via her contact in the Afternoon Tea underground of Chicago…). This is now my official 'best afternoon tea in London bar none'! High accolade indeed, but how can it not, when the jam and clotted cream arrive not in measly little dishes, but in gravy boats(!) and the (homemade in ...
Matching one’s knitting to one’s outfit
Ok, so it’s no longer February but the Lady Sweater is still in progress… I may be the only one at knitting group today but standards musn’t slip… I subconciously must know this as F.L.S’s yarn colour matches my dress :)
