London Bookshop Advent Day 11- The Open Book Richmond Do not be deceived by the small shop front to The Open Book. Opening the door…
On a chilly and rather damp afternoon in early March I found myself at Japan House in Kensington. I hadn’t arrived here by accident, I…
” I perhaps owe becoming a painter to flowers” – Claude Monet I discovered Monet at university, when like so any students I brightened up…
The latest in my review of London books is Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor the author, not to be confused…
The latests in my reviews of London books is Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens is one of Virginia Woolf’s earliest short stories written…
The Museum of the home has been a fixture in London since the early 1900’s, and I probably last visited it over 10 years ago. …
We are now exactly half way through November. Halloween and Bonfire Night have come and gone, the days are noticeably shorter and Christmas music is…
” These graveyard gardens are the most peaceful of our London sanctuaries and their dead the quietest” – Virginia Woolf Those unfamiliar with London could…
