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Started my early morning skipping regime again.
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To Stratford last night. Caught the Javelin high-speed train from St Pancras, walking under extraordinary rattling sound overhead – huge hailstones on the glass arched Barlow roof. Stratford environs very J.G. Ballard. Artist Bob and Roberta Smith aka Patrick Brill has … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, Bob and Roberta Smith, films, London Underground, paintings, Picasso, Stratford, Stratford cinema, Tim Newton
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Treacle well
To Oxford last weekend. Walked along the flooding Thames/Isis to St Frideswide’s Well at Binsey, by the side of St. Margaret’s church. Once a medieval pilgrimage spot, its waters are said to have healing powers – the word ‘treacle’ was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Binsey, dormouse, Lewis Carroll, Oxford, St Margaret's church, Thames, treacle well, walk
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Two Williams on Primrose Hill
Blake keeps popping up. The Royal Parks have commissioned Will Davies to cut a quote from one of William Blake’s poems which mentions Primrose Hill. He was carving it into the new York stone edging at the Hill’s summit when … Continue reading
Londoners
Last month to my first meeting of the Blake Society, held on the first floor of the Spaniards Inn in Hampstead, London. An appropriate venue as the pub has at least two literary associations – with Dickens and Keats. Fading … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake Society, Hampstead., notebook, Professor James Bogan, Spaniards Inn, William Blake
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China trip part five
Having drawn the Great Wall of China for the Comic Strip History of the World, I wanted to see the real thing. One free morning in Beijing before I left for London – but the cold and foggy conditions … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Festivals, Travels
Tagged bactrian, Beijing, Bookworm, cable car, China, fog, ice, Ming, Mutinanyu, Snickers, The Comic Strip History of the World, the Great Wall, tickets, travel, typography
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China trip part four
The Bookworm Festival included a visit to a school run by the Migrant Children’s Foundation for children whose parents have been drawn from the countryside to work in China’s cities. A car picked us up from the Opposite House and drove … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Festivals, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged bicycle, blackboard, cheese sandwich, China, comic strip, corgis, crown, drawings, fog, Forbidden City, glasses, interpreter, Migrant Childrens Foundation, Ring Road, Sally Kindberg, school, smile, story, the Bookworm, the Queen, umbrella
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China trip part three
Five hours travelling north from Suzhou to Beijing was a 302 km/h elevated and foggy whizz through countryside rapidly being converted into blocks of flats, roads cut into raw earth and forest of pylons. Luckily all the seats face forward as I … Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing, Bookworm Festival, bullet train, China, dinosaurs, hotel, Kengo Kuma, park, playground, Post-It, Sally Kindberg, schools, snow, talks, the Opposite House, travels, weather, workshops
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China trip part two
Flew north to Shanghai, met by large poet Butler who was also taking part in the three cities’ Beijing Bookworm Festival, in Suzhou, a very boring 2 hours’ drive west of Shanghai along grey motorways. Suzhou is a delight, a … Continue reading