It’s a familiar story of bucks to bankruptcy, but this one is on a scale that shook the financial world to its core and affected ordinary mortals across the globe. Stefano Massini’s The Lehman Trilogy has…
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Cultured Kids #26
Welcome to another edition of Cultured Kids, co-hosted with fabulous Catherine’s Cultural Wednesdays. Now that the summer break has started, it’s time to get cultured with the kids in the UK and beyond before we hang up…
The Skating Rink at Garsington Opera
I always approach contemporary opera with a dose of trepidation. Often inaccessible and veiled in discordant notes, it’s easy to veer in the direction of more traditional composition. But as I headed back to Garsington Opera…
Horniman Museum – A London Cabinet of World Curiosities
I’ve never understood why so many Londoners have never been to, let alone heard of, one of my favourite places: the Horniman Museum. I know it’s located in the leafy suburb of Forest Hill, but you…
Londoness Loves – July 2018
It’s a swell time of year in London isn’t it? Tennis season has kicked off, London has gone art crazy and the sun is shining! It’s a busy month ahead for Londoness with plenty of theatre…
A Tour of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham
If Oscar Wilde and Nicky Haslam had sired a love child in the eighteenth century, I think it would have been a Horatio “Horace” Walpole. He had wit, he had style, and he clearly lived by…
Splendours of the Subcontinent – Queen’s Gallery
When I went to India, I came back with a couple of silk rugs and my most treasured collection of Ganesha statues. Shame I didn’t know any Maharajas, as I might have returned with some souvenirs…
Le Nozze di Garsington Opera
The French for twilight is crépuscule, a word which conjures up that gleaming, twinkling time of day which is neither light nor dark, when the Goddess Nyx starts her magic dance. And Garsington Opera puts on…
Cultured Kids #23
Welcome to June and to another edition of Cultured Kids, co-hosted with the lovely Emma at A Bavarian Sojourn. As we head into the summer season, there’s lashings of activities for the kids to do this June….
Victorian Afternoon Tea at the V & A Museum
The Victorian Afternoon Tea at the Victoria and Albert Museum had me at seed cake. These two words always bring my childhood back in a whoosh of nostalgia wrapped in a cocoon of Englishness. If seed…