When I got back from my jaunt to Sussex to see Leonora (yes, soon posting on that — after WorldCon which is occupying my brain space that wasn’t occupied by Be Surreal) I realised I was overly-peopled and exhausted by doing new things [and head full of Leonora which is quite a thing] so I…
Tag: London
London: Expressionists
The first afternoon in London I had planned to go to the Fashion & Textile Museum but forgot just how much worse afternoon traffic in The City has become especially with summer road works so when the bus announced it was ending the route at St Paul’s and going no further I took it as…
London: The Boyfriend
Despite my aim to take a relaxed approach to London — and really, the aim was to get to Leonora in Sussex — and just do ‘a few things’ I find I have a lot of photos to share with you so how to begin? Rather than my usual temporal arrangement, I decided to begin…
St. George’s Gardens
London is full of unexpected little corners and green spaces. You turn a corner and there’s something unexpected. Here’s a great little garden space that also was one of the first burial grounds not directly attached to a church, but serving two Saint Georges (Queen Square and Bloomsbury). Well worth the jaunt from my hotel…
Berthe Morisot
In a rather adventurous turn for me, I took out my passport and headed to suburbia in order to see an exhibit of Berthe Morisot at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, which was on the edges of my consciousness for having held a British Surrealism exhibit some few years ago featuring of course Carrington and others….
Ghosts at Xmas
As I haunt my home town in the mauve misty snow, I have no new ghost story for Fox Spirit which has been a tradition of recent years. Things are just too… 2021, I guess. What excuse will there be next year? So here’s an ebook of the trilogy of ghost stories written in past…
Out Now: Until We Travel
Out now from Cities & Memory: With the future of global travel still hanging in the balance due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we’re delighted to launch our latest global project Until We Travel today – it’s the world’s biggest collection of the sounds of travel and will transport you to the excitement and familiarity…
Coming Soon: Bissette, Moore & Me
The cat’s out of the bag on this long-gestating project: my contribution came about from the 2010 Conference on Alan Moore at the University of Northampton that the now-sadly-departed Nathan Wiseman-Trowse organised. My presentation: Rite Here: Ritual, Performance and the Magick of Place From his first public working, The Birth Caul, Alan Moore has always had…
Dora Maar @ Tate Modern
Although my main goal for the flying visit to London in January was Blake, there were plenty of things to be seen. And going from Tate to Tate is always a good excuse to hop on a boat. It’s more expensive than taking the tube or busses, but you can’t beat the view. I was…
Blake at the Tate
Why did it take me so long to get around to posting this, you ask? Well, I took about 300 pictures at the exhibition and the tedium of uploading them finally happened today as it’s a holiday [fight capitalism in the name of MLK!]. The agony of sorting just a few to post here (see…