Outdoor ice-skating has become a festive tradition in London. It’s grown so popular that it seems the whole of London is frozen over – there’s skating at Somerset House on The Strand, skating at the Tower of London, skating in Greenwich, skating in Kew Gardens, skating at Hampton Court Palace and there’s even skating at [...]

I made it to the Royal College of Art’s Secret Postcard Sale on Friday 25 November. I was up at 5am and arrived at the college at 6.15am (it was still dark) where I joined a massive queue, including dozens of people who had been camping out (something they say they won’t allow next year, [...]

Fascinating piece in The Guardian saying that scientists suspect a massive skyscraper in Tapei has caused a couple of big earthquakes because of the pressure it exerts on the earth. If this is true, it throws into doubt plans for a skyscraper city in Japan and also dams and underground waste deposits.