Not quite the start of May but we're still in the first week! I'm kind of amazed I'm keeping these book posts up when everything else is dropping by the wayside but it's really nice for me to keep of track of and some of you seem to like reading them too ( Read more... )

So many things I meant to post about this week and so many things I meant to do this afternoon but none of them have happened (well a few of them have) HOWEVER I did have a wonderful morning because for Christmas I gave Dad tickets for the Engineering Tour at Tower Bridge and he very kindly let me go with him :-P ( Read more... )

The problem with lovely weekends away is that you come back and suddenly it's Monday tomorrow /o ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty amazing & busy few days around here. Dad & I walked the (possible) route of the Walbrook through London on Friday including finding the building site on top of the remains of The Theatre on Curtain Road, visiting the Bank of England Museum and meeting a very chatty man in St Stephen Walbrook. The trip culminated in Dad finding a ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took the day off to go and see the Ships, Clocks & Stars exhibition at the National Maritime Museum with my parents. I've been meaning to go for months but we could never find a weekend that worked and then I looked at the amount of TOIL I've accrued recently and realised I could just take a day off ( Read more... )

So I'm trying to keep up posting momentum here (plus it's boring when it's raining and I can't really go out in my lunch hour :-P)

On the Bank Holiday itself we had an outpost of seiyaharris' birthday and I took her to Not Afternoon Tea at the Oxo Tower which was AMAZING and I'd definitely recommend it! You get a selection of Afternoon Tea style cakes on a ( Read more... )

Why do I never learn the lesson about reviewing things as soon as I've seen them? Or at least why does the lesson never stick and I have to learn it over and over again. It's so much harder to do once time has passed ( Read more... )

I SUCK at posting so here's a quick (LOL quick, most of these bits I started writing and then abandoned so hopefully pulling them together is quick but the post might be quite long!) update ( Read more... )

So I have proved that I am currently failing at theatre reviews but maybe I can talk about a film. Under a spoiler cut.

(incidentally, I love and adore all of you but some people's ideas of avoiding spoilers are getting a little Joey Tribbiani ♥)

( Thor: The Dark World )

So it's the start of another month which means it's book review time.

• The Teleportation Accident- Ned Beauman
  
• Russian Roulette- Anthony Horowitz
  
• London Under- Peter Ackroyd
  
• Searching for Dragons- Patricia Wrede
  
• The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole*
  
• Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum- Richard Fortey
  

*read on kindle ( Read more... )