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Category Archives: Culture
Ticket to Tetbury
Westonbirt Arboretum
Day two of travels took me to Westonbirt Arboretum in Tetbury.
A Weekend in the Cotswolds
Ideally, all Autumns should be punctuated with a weekend away.
Mine was a quick trip to the Cotswolds.
Autumn at RHS Wisley
London Fashion Week – The Designer Showrooms
If catwalk shows at London Fashion Week are displays of theatrical brilliance (big, dynamic, buzzing), then a look round the Designer Showrooms at Brewer Street offers a chance to observe fashion from the perspective of visitor in a museum exhibition: a calmer, more serene space for (deep) sartorial contemplation.
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London Fashion Week – SS16 – Day One
I often think of fashion as a little bit like an excitable, blithe butterfly flitting across a meadow: so very thrilling to track and plot its unexpected turns in a distractingly beautiful milieu. And an opportunity to be one of the first to see Spring / Summer 2016 lead butterflies was not to be missed!
^ This is the world’s most fashionable car park (the new ‘concept’ meadow). From today until Tuesday, the NCP car park in Brewer Street in Soho will host London Fashion Week.
Farnham
Frensham Pond
To welcome September in, I went for a walk along Frensham Pond near Farnham.
Chartwell in Kent
I visited Chartwell in Kent, the home of Winston Churchill for 40 years.
