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This is the best thing I have ever learnt
Here is a thing I have just found out ( Read more... ) -
Things that I have done
Hey, here are some internet things that I have been involved in!
• Balloons, Spies, Asparagus and Other Wandsworth Stories: some odd things that have happened in Wandsworth over the past thousand years. There are balloons, spies, and asparagus, and also dogs and floods and grumpy monarchs. If you're in the UK and interested in strange history, do ( Read more... ) -
Not Very Flat It Turns Out
The only thing I knew about Norfolk, before I visited, was that exchange in Private Lives: "Very flat, Norfolk." / "Don't be unpleasant." I was going to spend three days in a place noted primarily for its flatness! I was pretty excited ( Read more... ) -
Hide&Seek Weekender
Hey, you know how I occasionally post saying "hey you know those games things I organise, there was another one, it was great"? This time I'm actually posting in advance!
In a week - from 9 to 11 July - the 2010 Hide&Seek Weekender will be taking place at the National Theatre (we're based mostly in the Olivier foyer). Yes, that's the actual ( Read more... ) -
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Oh, things! They do keep happening, and I never seem to write them down.- I'm now working most days in Farringdon, which is a pretty great place! Our offices are on Hatton Wall, and "we" are Hide&Seek, and I heartily recommend the "Who We Are" page because the picture of me is excellent. If you, like me, work in or near Farringdon, maybe we could ( Read more... )
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Spring! Games, gardens and chocolate.
Spring! It's nice. Here are some nice things about spring so far, though I see that miss_newham has covered most of them already...
GAMES AT THE V&A
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The London Borough Motto Awards
Welcome to the London Borough Motto Awards! There's a lot to get through, so let's get started.
The award for smuggest motto goes, perhaps unsurprisingly, to Kensington and Chelsea, with What a good thing it is to live together in unity.
The award for daftest motto that is, okay, slightly endearing in its enthusiastic brashness goes-again perhaps ( Read more... ) -
Hey ho, nobody home, yet will I be merry
ADVANTAGES OF HAVING HOUSEMATES
- People to play games with
- Shared washing up
- Greater likelihood that someone will notice when the squirrels are doing something comical outside
- The potplants get watered
- The potplants exist at all, for that matter
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Sherburm Blodgett update
In my last post, I mentioned the "revolving shuttle machine" patented by Sherburm Blodgett, as discussed in an informative A4 sheet from the Sewing Machine Museum. However, doubts were raised in comments about Mr Blodgett; perhaps his name was not Sherburm but Sherburn? Google, after all, knew nothing about Sherburm, and had at least a couple of ( Read more... ) -
The Sewing Machine Museum
Perhaps because I talk louder than either of them, Kevan and miss-newham continue to indulge me in my conviction that we should go to pretty much every museum in London, the nicher the better. This weekend it was the first Saturday of the month, and we all know what that means: the Sewing Machine Museum in Balham was open between 2pm and 5pm ( Read more... )