Continuing Education …
I have been very quiet on this blog so far this year because, in the first weeks of January, I was ill and then, in late…
Federer beats Murray, O2 Arena
I saw Roger Federer beat Andy Murray, in the season-ending 2014 Masters ATP World Tour Finals, last night at the O2 Arena. Beat? Well, thrash more…
Visiting the Dorfman Theatre
A week or two back, I went along to a preview of Here Lies Love, the opening production at the newly refurbished Dorfman Theatre, formerly The…
The Fire Next Time …
James Baldwin is one of my favourite writers and I have read most of his work. This weekend, I was reading a review of The Fire…
Horst: Photographer of Style
I went along to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) last weekend to see Horst: The Photography of Style exhibition, on until 4 January 2015. Rather…
Clive James in the New Yorker
This beautiful poem, Japanese Maple, by Clive James, in The New Yorker, has been going around Twitter. Amazing how illness and the imminence of death seem to…
Disability Chic Part III
I am now convinced it is a trend. The shot, above, is my third sighting of disability equipment used in non disability related advertising recently, this time in…
J P Gaultier: Disability Chic
I made it across to The Barbican for the last weekend of the The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier and imagine my surprise when almost…
Stiletto Wheels 