Archive | February, 2014

spaces

To the Royal Academy to see the Sensing Spaces exhibition. It’s a series of rooms in which different architects/architectural practices have been asked to explore the space. The lack of pretension and a complete absence […]

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more birthday

Dan and Em, as well as cooking a fantastic meal for us, presented me with this wonderful object. As I had to guess what it was for, everyone else will, too. And the Haitian music […]

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birthday

Rachel took me to lunch at Little Bay in Kilburn for my birthday. Such a really lovely thing to do, and the flowers were wonderful.

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a day by the sea

On a brilliantly bright Sunday to Two Tree Island, one of the few places we’d not yet been to on the Essex coast out of London. It’s a bird sanctuary, has a knee-friendly path all […]

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a night at the theatre

The 50th anniversary production of Joan Littlewood’s Oh What a Lovely War at Stratford East, with Tim and Jennie and Hannah. It’s a theatre we love, as much for its outside as its inside theatre […]

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more drawing again

Our visits are somewhat sporadic, but I’m still getting a lot out of our life class in Hampstead. It really pays to go regularly, and I think so far I haven’t had one repeat of […]

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ridiculous to sublime

It could almost be spring. Kenwood looking its absolute best in the sun… the ponds gleaming… everything perfect… It’s only when you look down that you remember it couldn’t. Not for quite a while yet, […]

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unerring taste again

Things to do with toothpicks 6 – from Liz (who else?). And she also brought plum wine, and Yorkshire pickle and a special Yorkshire knee-exercise device (a Morrison’s plastic bag) for Robin. Whose knee has […]

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