This was news to me: it takes less than two hours to get to York from London King’s Cross.
So it’s the perfect place for a mid-week break.
Category Archives: Culture
Tunbridge Wells – The Pantiles
I often struggle with picking a ‘favourite’.
But I think Tunbridge Wells might be my favourite part of Kent.
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2016
My day stomping around RHS Hampton Court Flower Show press day has kindled new horticulture goals.
The New Tate Modern
The Tate Modern opened their doors to the press this morning to introduce their new, massive extension.
‘Switch House’, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is a 10 storey 200 foot structure located at the back of the Tate Modern.
Flower Time
Bluebells in Surrey
Imagine the sound of a bluebell wood.
If the bluebells were bells.
Back to Oxford
A few weeks ago I went to Oxford (again!) for the day to see the Oxford Literary Festival in full swing.
Constable Exhibition at The Lightbox
‘Painting is with me but another word for feeling’.
So John Constable told Archdeacon John Fisher in a letter in October 1821. If you visit the latest exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking, you will be able to see Constable’s innermost clandestine feelings expressed on the walls of the gallery.
Constable was one of the first artists of the Romantic Movement to view landscapes for their own beauty, rather than as a backdrop for a historical scene. He created his art directly from nature rather than from his imagination and he resisted the fashion of the day to piece together elements taken from nature to form a classical landscape.
Legoland by Gerard Woodward
Literature is full of ‘doubles’: characters who seem to move in tandem; or twins, whose familial bond and similarities are frequently employed for farcical effect. In Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’, for example, the sense of a clear identity becomes a tangled mess as Viola, in disguise as a boy called Cesario, falls in love with Duke Orsino, who loves Olivia; Viola has to deliver Orsino’s love letters to Olivia, who quickly falls in love with her as Cesario. Sebastian, Viola’s twin brother who she thought had died, enters on stage, and Olivia is soon smitten with him.
Where was I?
Oxford on a Sunday Morning
I spent a free Sunday morning in fascinated wandering through the city of Oxford.
Thankfully the sun came out too!