Sometimes the critics are wrong

National AnthemsOld Vic12 February 2005 Curiosity drove me to the Old Vic to see Kevin Spacey in National Anthems but if I’d paid attention to the reviews I might never have gone. Spacey’s artistic directorship of the Old Vic has been nothing if not controversial. The press regularly describes his reign as ‘troubled’, ‘weird’ and [...]

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

I released this on Saturday 12 February 2005 at the Royal Academy of Art in London – Central, England United Kingdom. I left this on a bench in the courtyard when visiting for the Turks exhibition. The person who found it joined BookCrossing and left this journal entry: Journal entry 3 by martinaperry(0/0) from London, [...]

Year of the Rooster

Happy new year! I joined the crowds in the West End to welcome the Year of the Rooster today. I watched the parade with my friends Natalie, Kimberley, Cameron and John from our vantage point outside St Martin’s on the Field opposite Trafalgar Square. After the parade we wandered up to Chinatown to buy noodles [...]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Mary PoppinsPrince Edward Theatre1 February 2005 This is the musical that pipped The Producers for best musical of the year and it is sold out months in advance. I managed to get tickets for myself and my friend Natalie for her birthday and what a treat it was! Musicals – not usually my favourite type [...]

A blog at last!

As a former technology journalist, I really should have had a blog before now! Somehow I kept putting it off thinking it would be really difficult to arrange. It wasn’t; it was dead simple. My friend and former colleague Kate has one for her adventures in Africa but that wasn’t what persuaded me. The clincher [...]

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