Last night, my daughter Michayla and I had the privilege of spending an evening with Adele, along with a record-breaking 98,000 others at Wembley Stadium. It was the first night of her four-night Finale, the end of her album 25 tour that began in February 2016. Continue reading Accompanying the Amazing Adele at Wembley
Exit the shop and I’m back in the corridors of the Natural History Museum surrounded by school children, hundreds and hundreds of them. It was like they’d spawned in the hour I’d been in the exhibit. Squealing and jostling, chattering and giggling, filling the wooden halls and windowed ceilings with their raucous noise. Continue reading Dodging Tots, Toddlers, and Teens to find those Dinosaurs
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition is a collection of the 2016 finalists. If you appreciate the mental and physical pain that photographers like these go through, just to capture the perfect shot of a parrot grabbing the tail of an iguana as it raids the bird’s nest, then it’s well worth a visit. Continue reading Celebrating Wildlife at the Natural History Museum
Harrods is one of those places you hear and read about, that you want to visit just to see how the other half live, just to see if its as ridiculously opulent as you’ve heard. Trust me, it is. It’s both opulent and ridiculous. After just an hour, I was too punch-drunk on opulence-overload to take any more in. Continue reading Harrods, where I can’t even afford to breathe
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds many of the UK’s national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. Continue reading Wandering through the Victoria and Albert Museum
I get within 15 metres of the station and realise I don’t have my Oyster Cards on me. I’d left them in my smaller bag. Dammit. I can see trains leaving the station on the over bridge above me, as I turn and rapidly walk back to the flat. Just as well I left early, I mutter to myself. Continue reading God makes me stupid for a reason
I fiddle with everything. The lamp that arches over my shoulder. The seat recliner with its four arrows – footrest up and down, seat back tilt forward and back, as well as fully upright and fully flat options. In the footlocker in front of me I stow my big Mum bag, and find a little cosmetic bag of personal essentials – toothbrush and paste, comb, eye cover, moisturiser, and lip cream. Continue reading Flying to London’s summer skies
Although I blogged consistently during my week in Paris, our week together in London was so busy it was just too hard to maintain that effort. Instead, Michayla vlogged our adventures using her iPhone, capturing many of the special moments we shared over the Christmas break. Continue reading Celebrating Christmas in London
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