This weekend is Diwali, and I find that there is an amazing installation at the Tate Britain: Chila Kumari Singh Burman transforms the front of Tate Britain into a celebration of neon light and swirling colour: Inspired by the artist’s childhood visits to the Blackpool illuminations and her family’s ice-cream van, Burman covers the façade of Tate ( Read more... )

Anyway, Happy Diwali! Shine the light.
Today we had decided to take the ferry to the 'Three Cities' (cities being somewhat of an exaggeration). It had been raining before we went out, and was a little showery when we left, but seemed to be clearing...
And then when we reached the opposite shore there was a thunderstorm and a downpour positively ( Read more... )

Today is Diwali!
In other news, today I have been all day at the annual conference of Learned Society With Which I Have the Honour to Be Associated -
- which was rather good, all except the last paper which was ugh -
- in an Eminent Institution which does not provide guest wifi to people attending meetings in its premises WOT, so I was unable to ( Read more... )

First it was the School of Life (o Bloomsbury, how art thou fallen), teaching you how to converse and what to read, now it's the London School of Etiquette - based in Chelsea, natch (such stereotyping - and it does also have a venue at Silicon Roundabout - Old Street area).

While it doesn't seem to be dealing with such crucial issues as order of ( Read more... )

Today is Diwali.

That would probably explain the fireworks I heard earlier (I think it's really rather too early for them to be premature Guy Fawkes celebrations).

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Today is Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights (also celebrated by Sikhs and Jains), which is something I am rather fond of. I think this dates from when I was in Kabul, and one evening came back to the British Embassy to find all the houses of the Indian staff in the Embassy compound lit up with little fairy lights, very pretty. Also, something to ( Read more... )

Today is Diwali:
The festival celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance.

It is celebrated by Sikhs and Jains as well as Hindus. The Times of India is quoted as suggesting that
what the festival of lights really stands for today is a reaffirmation of hope, a renewed commitment to friendship and ( Read more... )

via altariel1: When you see this, quote Oscar Wilde:
A handbag?

Today is the start of Diwali:
lighting a lamp symbolizes the destruction, through knowledge, of all negative forces- wickedness, violence, lust, anger, envy, greed, bigotry, fear, injustice, oppression and suffering, etc

Responses to the Women and Ambition article I posted about last week. ( Read more... )

No culinary post this week: no shopping was done yesterday, and we went out for lunch today at the local gastro-pub. I don't need to make any bread, because there's enough Allison's Country Grain loaf (made during the week) left. Yesterday's breakfast rolls were basic buttermilk with cornmeal, because I wasn't feeling very enterprising or inspired ( Read more... )