Rise of the small museum
Explore a new world of curiosity in your local museum. Here’s pointers on where to ignite your imagination on your travels
Balmy Barmouth Podcast
Travelogue of Barmouth is newly uploaded to a brand new podcast. Proud to be featured on female:pressure podcast
Rehearsal Room Review
Looking for a space to use for a budget has its challenges. Check out my solutions published recently in The Stage
Where do you enjoy Theatre?
If you would like to explore story telling in unusual places read my latest feature published this week in The Stage for ideas on what trends are emerging.
Colleges closed to tourists for open day
Open day for the Oxford colleges attracted a city full of prospective students and their families this week. Each college competed with banners, freebies and slogans. Brasenose College declared themselves ‘happiest college’, written in coloured chalk along Market Street. Balliol College gave their prospective students paper tote bags with their crest on. Somerville College advertised […]
Travel Review – Hotel Romeo Naples
The bustle of Naples is behind me the moment my taxi pulls up at the hotel entrance as a porter opens the cat food takes my hand luggage out of my lap and guides me to the lobby. The hotel Romeo is both style and substance. Inside the lobby are modern sculptures of hands and […]
Oxford Circus Arrests
Section 14 is served on Oxford Circus protest area this afternoon with police separating protestors from passers by. Oxford Street is pedestrianised for the bank holiday weekend due to the protest. Celebrities such as Emma Thompson address the crowds from the now famous pink boat stationed at the usually busy traffic junction. Thompson speaks to […]
Mary Blandy Brighton Fringe
Walking along the Strand in London to Trafalgar Square to try on a costume I become someone else. Through the darkness I sense the character of a lady of Henley who met her death hung on holy ground in 1757. Mary was not granted the right to appeal her conviction for poisoning her father. She […]
Debenhams Last Gasp
Today shares in the High Street chain Debenhams are worth pennies. Major share holder and Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley offered £200 million to rescue it. The Debenhams board rejected this offer from Ashley who has 30% shares in the company. His offer came with the proviso he sacks the board and takes control himself. […]
Thames turns Light Blue
The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat races were all won by the team in light blue today, a first for clean sweep for Cambridge. Olympian James Cracknell rowed in the back of the Cambridge boat at the age of 47. The men’s Oxford team announced a change of cox and crew to the line up […]