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I wandered up from near the Opera (where the hotel was) through back streets up to the top of the…
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My university library had a massive stack of printing industry annuals from the 1890s through to the 20s. I always…
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Recently I went to the Malevich exhibition at the Tate Modern. I was vaguely aware of him as an avant-garde…
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In other old photos I’ve dug out recently, here’s some photos of Liechtenstein from last summer. I’m currently writing a…
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In the days when I worked at Hampton Court I got to go to quite a few of their special…
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A little while ago I went to visit my pál Erika (sorry, can’t resist the terrible pun) in Surrey for…
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My flickr account has 370 albums on it, dating back to 2007, before I started this blog. A little while…
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My all-time top Finn Tukru, sent me some weird Finnish music videos from the past. (Don’t introduce me to any…
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I have kept scrapbooks like this since about 2002, sticking in things like ticket stubs, catalogues from art exhibitions, food…
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I recently watched this documentary about the Phantom Tollbooth, one of my favourite books when I was younger. (I still…
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A while back I went to Fishbourne Palace. In the 1960s engineers digging a new drain in a village just…
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For the past few months, I’ve been working with a group of students and an English teacher at a school…
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The other weekend I went to visit Erika and her partner at their beautiful house. I always have a nice…
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On the way from Niederösterreich to Vorarlberg I stopped off alone in Salzburg along the way. I had to change trains…
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While in Kirchberg-am-Wechsel we were given a tour of a disused church perched up on the mountainside. It has suffered…
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While in Kirchberg am Wechsel I also got to go on a tour of Hermannshöhle with another teacher. It’s a…
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Last Summer I spent a week working at the junior school in Kirchberg am Wechsel, a tiny mountain town on the…
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I spent a lot of last summer travelling up and down the Alps by train. Here are a couple of…
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Since just before Christmas, I have been doing a weekly animation workshop with kids at a school in North London,…
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We also went to the baroque St Nicholas’ church in Prague. I’m not at all religious (and it seems neither…
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The pavements in the Old Town in Prague are all decorated with mosaics. Perhaps they’re not so great for the…
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Puppetry is a big thing in the Czech Republic. As well as being the home of Jan Švankmajer and Jiří Trnka, there are…
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We didn’t have a long time in Prague, so we didn’t get to sample that many places, but the ones…
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After a week in Dresden at the end of August, I went to Prague for the weekend with my work…
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I’m fascinated by the history of the Cold War. Both the political side, and the social history of people’s everyday…
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While I was at my grandparent’s place, I scanned some books. Here’s the Golden Hands Book of Crafts from the…
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Flickr have massively changed their website recently, and I took the chance to go through all my old photos and…
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A couple of years ago I interviewed the children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones, my favourite writer growing up. I was…
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I have been busy recently, and the ever-present backlog of photos and so on I mean to post gets ever…
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Every so often I like to write on here about things I like, and why I like them. I’ve (finally)…
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Here are some scans from a 1970s interior design book- House by Terrence Conran. Some of the stuff in it…
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This is how I personally make my zines. There’s no right or wrong way (aside from doing things like accidentally…
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got this stack of 70s craft magazines in a junk shop in Devizes a few years ago. That place was…
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As part of my MA, we were required to keep a creative diary keeping track of the professional practice lectures,…
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When I was a kid I used to borrow this book again and again from the local library. The first…
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I was doing some residential teaching for the last 2 weeks. A group of year 9s from Chile came on…
