• my diary

    it was a very good year…

    And it’s an extremely belated first blog of the year – one year to the day since the last one, and 2022 is almost gone along with my birthday, which encompassed a trip each to the Tate Modern to see the Mirror Rooms and the V&A for some Fabergé (followed by a peaceful swim and a sauna at my lovely…

  • my diary

    so here it is…

    All done for 2018, London-wise at least – phew! I’m as chipper as ever but completely worn out and looking forward to a well earned rest after a massively fun but inordinately tiring week, rounded off with the new Mary Poppins film at the Picturehouse Central, some Christmas carols at Westminster Central Hall and a stroll back through Trafalgar Square…

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    all we hear is…

    It’s December already! And thankfully (despite the O2 service lurching from the local trainwreck described last week to a state of near-Armageddon as of first thing this morning) the phone is almost if not quite behaving; if nothing else the on-off time provided a welcome bit of breathing space for getting virtually all of the Christmas and a fair few…