Month: June 2020

It’s been a tough time for London’s theatres and it looks like the uncertainty continues over when the sector will be able to return, following an announcement that ‘Les Misérables’, ‘Mary Poppins’, [...]

Legend has it that on the hill near Killerton National Trust, a dragon lies – when it’s not popping to Cadbury Castle across the border in Somerset, apparently. And that [...]

One of the highlights of lockdown (not a phrase we thought we’d ever be saying, tbh) has to be the weekly theatre dose administered by London’s National Theatre. The line-up of plays streamed [...]

Do you remember the days when we stood waiting for a train before we had mobile phones to distract us? Some read the paper and some simply stared into space [...]

For many, the National Theatre’s calendar of weekly free-to-stream plays has been a highlight of lockdown, a cultural saviour and an escape from the humdrum of staying at home. The first [...]

What to do this summer? Most of us have got pretty fed up with sitting in the local park and are yearning for a holiday. With oversees travel looking fairly [...]

Since 2020 became all about cancellations and closures, all eyes are on what will happen in London during 2021. Here’s one we weren’t expecting: next year, construction will begin on [...]

Back in 2015, I redecorated my dining room to include a feature wall section with a London Theatreland map from 1915. (This is the wallpaper – as an aside, I [...]

Have you ever had something really, really terrible happen to you and – in the middle of it all – managed to laugh about it a tiny bit? That’s potentially [...]

There aren’t many perks to this lock down despite the abundance of people taking to social media to show us all their perfect sourdough loaves and ‘accidental’ half marathons. We [...]