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Spending some time in sunny Somerset

Spending some time in sunny Somerset

Ahhh, the English countryside. There’s nothing quite like it. As you travel out of London (often in a traffic jam), hitting the motorways, your stress seems to fade away like a dandelions’ petals in the wind. Living in London, we frequently feel as though we’re the centre of the universe. It seems as though it’s where anything that’s worth knowing about happens, and certainly during the Olympics it did feel that way. Sometimes, when something significant happens outside of the [...]

Jamie’s Italian

Jamie’s Italian

My celebrity crush is Jamie Oliver. Well, him and Daniel Radcliffe. I like Jamie Oliver because I find his enthusiasm and passion for food endearing and his mannerisms charming. He’s had a bit of bad press lately because in a an interview he complained that even though he takes five weeks’ holiday a year, his wife Jools wants him to take more. He added that he doesn’t think she understands his career and what he wants to continue to do – [...]

Love through the ages: Reply to: PO BOX 49

Love through the ages: Reply to: PO BOX 49

Reply to: PO BOX 49 is a play about love. But it’s not your normal performance with two acts and a number of different scenes. I got my first hint of this on arrival when we were given a stone with a letter on it and told to hold onto it during the show. When we mounted the stairs into the Battersea Mess and Music Hall, we were surrounded by five singing women dressed in fishing gear and holding lanterns. [...]

The drinking detectives: Evans and Peel

The drinking detectives: Evans and Peel

London is a city full of mysteries, from the infamous Jack the Ripper to Sherlock Holmes, and there’s so much history scuffed onto its old cobbled lanes that it would be impossible to get to the bottom of it all. A new bar that has tapped into this wicked mix of the real and imagined is The Evans and Peel Detective Agency, where you call to make an appointment, rather than a booking, and have to buzz through on the [...]