We spent Friday evening at John Hoyland and Dom Gill’s 70th birthday party at the exquisite Orangery in Holland Park. It was a chance to catch up with old friends and the food, the booze and above all the company were tremendous, the evening flew by all too fast. Click here to see all the photos.
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Isabel and I spent a pleasant hour today looking at the magnificent and stunning objects in the British Museums exhibition ‘Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World‘. I urge you to catch this one before it closes, some of the objects are on a par with the objects I once saw during a visit to the [...]
I tried. I really did. But in the end the Scottish Highlands defeated me. The wind and the rain slowly ground me down and I started thinking “what I am doing here? I must flee south towards the land of hosepipe bans!” It is so wet that motorists have to be warned about the dangers [...]
We have nearly finished out week in Scourie in northern Sutherland and it’s been a mixed experience. This really is a fantastically beautiful and remote place full of sudden unexpected elemental vistas. The problem has been the weather. All week with monotonous regularity wave after wave of big dark clouds have rolled over releasing varying [...]
We are about halfway through our Scottish Highlands road trip and we have covered about 1200 miles since leaving London. The first long haul at the start of the trip was from London to Edinburgh on the east coast route via the M1 and then the A1. This turned out to be a pleasant if [...]
I stumbled across this photo of the old Compendium Bookshop and it triggered a lot of fond memories, I went through this door countless times to spend many a happy hour browsing through obscure texts on pleasingly disorganised shelves. There is more about Compendium here, here and here.
Welcome to my web site. As I add items the older stuff gets pushed down the page so you will need to scroll down to see it. This front page only shows the most recent entries – to find older articles visit the index page. If you want to listen to some music while you [...]
Dave celebrated his 60th birthday on Sunday with, amongst other things, a meal for friends and family at the Tufnell Park Tavern. It was jolly good fun. The photo are here.
Thirty nine years ago, in the summer of 1972, Jo Robinson and I took a bunch of kids for a day out to look at the trains at Kings Cross. At some point I popped into a photo booth and grabbed a few pics including these two of Kelly Wild sitting on my lap. Yesterday [...]
Isabel and I went on the gigantic demo against the cuts today and encountered a vast cross section of humanity and lot of very funny posters. The photos are here. Here is a selection of some of my favourites. A view along the Embankment (make sure you view this one full size to [...]
We gathered for Geraldine’s 60th birthday party. Old friends were embraced and kissed. News and gossip exchanged. We chatted and laughed. Champagne was drunk and food eaten. There was some dancing. And Ralph read a poem he had written to celebrate the love of his life. Here is the video – it’s a bit dark [...]
Terry left to work in Ethiopia for the next year and the night before she left she held a farewell party. Here are a few seconds of video from what was a very nice night full of old friends.
Yesterday we gathered to celebrate Alison’s 60th Birthday. I remember her 20th birthday, I bought her an album, or an LP as we called it then, it was “Air Conditioning” by the band Curved Air. Seems like yesterday. Where does the time go? The birthday party was great – the photos are here.
