After numerous blog recommendations, I finally got round to seeing the ShowStudio- Fashion Revolution exhibition at Somerset House . It was strange to see the venue deserted without the hustle and bustle of fashion week, but also somewhat refreshing to see no fashionistas, photographers and general randomness. In fact, it was so deserted that we almost got lost trying to find the exhibition. This gave...
About 20,000 people paid up to £125 each, but the Big Green Gathering was cancelled at the last minute. Months later some are still waiting for their money People who booked tickets for a leading green festival cancelled in July are growing worried they will not be refunded, even though some handed over their cash almost a year ago, Guardian Money can reveal. Up to 20,000 people were expected...
Hyderabad: Stuart Clark did the spadework and David Warner then set the tone of the chase as New South Wales Blues (NSW) crushed Somerset by six wickets with 8.1 overs to spare to book a semi-final berth in the Champions League Twenty20 here Sunday.
Stuart Clark did the spadework and David Warner then set the tone of the chase as New South Wales crushed Somerset by six wickets with 8.1 overs in the Champions League Twenty20 in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Despite claims that the EDL that they are not anti-Islam, just against extremism, the evidence continues to fly in. As we witnessed in Manchester there were anti-Muslim slogans and posters with 'No More Mosques'. EDL members (in conjunction with members of the party they are supposed to be distinct from) have set up a Facebook protest about a proposed Islamic centre in Weston-super-mare. The planning...
With London hosting its biggest season for a quarter of a century, who better to open the proceedings at Somerset House—a little British Louvre-on-Thames, with full Georgian trimmings—than fashion's most-loved milliner, Stephen Jones? With the generosity of spirit that is buoying up the collective morale in this city, Jones and Michael Howells (the British set-design maestro who creates...
I did have a bit of a go at the Culture Show a while back - a half hour rush through, using people like Mark Kermode as presenters, rather than making the most of their expertise, no time for any feature to be anything other than superficial. Now it's 50 minutes long, the presenter is of less consequence - just introducing clips. The likes of Mark Kermode and Andrew Graham-Dixon get time to focus...
So here I am creating work for the London show (as mentioned below!), and at the same time I am throwing ink about trying to recreate and develop work I made from my very first year of my degree...funny how that goes isn't it. When the tutor told me 'this is interesting, I like the way you are approaching this... ', I thought, ok, I am putting ink on paper, for fun, simple. Three years down the line...
Ticketholders for cancelled gathering urged to head to support workers fighting closure of Isle of Wight wind turbine factory When the Big Green Gathering , a festival for environmentally minded individuals to share ideas about tackling climate change while practising a little reiki, was cancelled at the weekend, those with tickets were left with nowhere to go. Now a new festival seems to have sprung...
For those who have seen the tweets about beer and the photos I thought I'd just explain what it's all about. Paul, Phil and I worked together 20 years ago, at that time we were auditors with Berni Inns. For the last few years we've got together to watch some cricket. We've visited Canterbury, Scarborough and Horsham in the past - Phil and Paul are cricket fans and have been doing this for far longer...
For two days the 1948 Australians masterfully lit up Taunton with unceremonious brilliance It was the best railway journey I ever made. The grimy old steam train puffed and creaked along the single track on its stop-start way to Taunton in 1948. Its smoke billowed overhead and in my eager, symbolic imagination, there were ashes on the line. Not long out of school, I was off to see the Australians...
Somerset 230 ? 2966 bt Yorkshire 277 ? 248 by four wktsCaptain who set the tone for a first victory of the season that extended Yorkshire's winless sequence to 15 matches.
Both Marcus Trescothick and Harold Gimblett prove that cricket is, like no other game, played with the head He was down on the scorecard as the official adjudicator but you wouldn't have known. Few if anyone had seen him and the Benson & Hedges match between Gloucestershire and Leicestershire at Bristol was now into early afternoon. Then I spotted him as I strolled the boundary and beyond. He...
Wedding Exhibitions In Somerset 2009 June 28th 2009. Love Actually Wedding Fayre at Bristol Zoo. September 20th, 2009. Tone Leisure Wedding Exhibition. Taunton, Somerset. OCTOBER 2nd-4th, 2009. NATIONAL WEDDING SHOW, EARL’S COURT, LONDON.