Skip to main content

My London+

Search This Blog

Gregorian. 2/6. U2 - With or without you. Minsk. 25.10.2010. Palace of R...

January 25, 2013

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

U2 will never be the same again - keep the faith (sorry, sorry!)

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Comments

Post a Comment

Useful blogs/websites

IanVisits

TfL’s discounted Friday fares trial fell flat with Londoners
London Shoes

*”Battersea Power Station” – then and now
Londonist

Colindale Tube Station Reopens On 20 December

Popular Posts

Dorchester-on-Thames to Oxford over two days (Thames Path)

Allotments at Dorchester-on-Thames It's been around eleven months since I last picked up the Thames Path. The weather (flooded paths for most of spring) and time constraints have kept me from walking. Suddenly I had a window in my schedule and the weather looked promising, so I went for it and booked accommodation for my trip. My friend who walks with me can no longer walk long distances, but we worked out that she could join me at Culham and we would walk the final two and quarter miles into Abingdon where we would stay overnight, so she at least got a flavour of the walk. I had booked to stay at The White Hart in Dorchester-on-Thames overnight, a hotel the two of us stayed in last year. I took the train from London to Reading. Being a Sunday the X40 bus which runs between Reading and Oxford only runs once an hour and I was a bit early. I decided to go to Pret for a cuppa and use the facilities. And there was the first stupid thing I did. I accidentally left my Thames Path book ...

Kensington and the Barbie Exhibition at the Design Museum

Why Barbie? I never had a Barbie. I had a Sindy who came wearing a red sloppy Joe sweater and denim skirt. Still, I thought it would be good fun, and the kids had gone back to school. It was, in fact, quite enjoyable. But before the exhibition, I had a wander around the back streets of Kensington. The architecture of the houses is stunning and it was nice to have time to explore. Kensington Library Just love these houses/apartments I ended up in Holland Park. There was a cold wind blowing that day, but I found a nice sheltered and sunny spot in the rose garden to eat my packed lunch. Holland Park This lovely display is in front of a block of apartments. Who lives in a place like that? Then on to the exhibition. The first Barbie was styled on a model, but gosh hasn't she changed over the years? There was a room with all the different ones from the start to the modern ones. Then of course there were the clothes. Soon along came Ken (he also had many transformations), Barbie's ...

Aftermath Exhibition at Tate Britain

This was one exhibition I did not want to miss and I'm so glad I didn't. This is a sobering but brilliant exhibition covering the years 1916-1932 and features artists not only from England but Germany and France and others. What struck me was for all those artists the impact of being on the front was the same. It was interesting to see these picture alongside each other. What they saw and experienced came out through their art work, sometimes quite disturbingly. A few could never get over those experiences. At least one committed suicide. Some of my favourite painters had work here - Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer and Christopher Nevinson but I found others I admired, especially William Orpen. These paintings really brought home the destruction of war. Eight rooms made up the exhibition - the first was Remembrance: Battlefields and Ruins where the real cost cries out from the bodies of soldiers to the stark landscape of wire and burned stunted trees and graveyards. The second...

Powered by Blogger

Poems/stories by Heather Walker