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Play: Shucked
We went to the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for the first time to see the Tony Award-winning musical, Shucked.
17 May 2025
Concert: Jerron Paxton with Martin Harley
Tonight we saw Jerron Paxton at the Union Chapel in Islington.
15 May 2025
The Speaker's House
Today we visited the Speaker's House inside Westminster Palace.
11 April 2025
Concert: Katherine Priddy
Tonight I went to the Landmark Art Centre with Tanya and Paul to see Katherine Priddy
14 March 2025
Older Articles
Book - The Ghost Map
— 14 October 2012
Book - The Victorian Internet
— 10 October 2012
Book - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
— 28 September 2012
Book - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
— 10 September 2012
Book - A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire)
— 7 September 2012
Book - 1491
— 15 August 2012
Book - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
— 15 May 2012
Book - A Storm of Swords
— 21 March 2012
Book - A Feast for Crows (Song of Ice and Fire)
— 21 March 2012
Book - A Clash of Kings HBO Tie-In Edition
— 14 March 2012
Book - A Game of Thrones
— 8 March 2012
Book - A Country Doctor's Notebook (Vintage Classics)
— 21 September 2011
Book - Striker
— 7 September 2011
Book - Black Snow
— 1 September 2011
Book - Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
— 26 July 2011
Book - The Fifth Witness
— 29 June 2011
Book - Stet
— 9 June 2011
Book - Scrivener's Moon
— 17 May 2011
Book - Shit My Dad Says
— 27 February 2011
Book - Pereira Maintains
— 12 February 2011
Book - The Passage
— 4 January 2011
Book - Heartstone
— 20 December 2010
Book - Leviathan
— 20 December 2010
Book - The Reversal
— 7 November 2010
Book - Worth Dying For
— 25 October 2010
Play - The Globe Theatre - Henry IV Part I
— 8 October 2010
Concert - Wilco - Royal Festival Hall
— 14 September 2010
Book - Mockingjay
— 30 August 2010
Book - Wolf Hall
— 28 August 2010
Book - Revelation
— 7 August 2010
Book - Sovereign
— 30 July 2010
Book - Dark Fire
— 22 July 2010
Book - Over Sea, Under Stone
— 23 June 2010
Book - Dissolution
— 13 June 2010
Book - The Dark is Rising
— 15 May 2010
Book - 61 Hours
— 14 May 2010
Concert - Josh Ritter - Tabernacle
— 4 May 2010
Book - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
— 14 April 2010
Book - The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
— 11 April 2010
Book - A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
— 5 April 2010
Book - A Web of Air
— 30 March 2010
Book - This Is Where I Leave You
— 23 March 2010
Book - The Girl Who Played with Fire
— 17 March 2010
Book - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
— 7 March 2010
Book - Gone Tomorrow
— 16 February 2010
Book - Three Men in a Boat
— 6 February 2010
Book - Longitude
— 17 January 2010
Book - People of the Book
— 7 January 2010
Book - Nine Dragons
— 18 December 2009
Book - The Lost Symbol
— 16 December 2009
Concert - Modest Mouse - Shepherd's Bush Empire
— 14 December 2009
Book - Catching Fire
— 5 December 2009
Book - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
— 25 November 2009
Book - The Hunger Games
— 20 November 2009
Concert - Wilco - Kentish Town
— 4 November 2009
Book - Pyramids
— 25 October 2009
Book - Moving Pictures
— 16 September 2009
Book - The Brass Verdict
— 20 August 2009
Book - Mort
— 2 August 2009
Book - Cathedral of the Sea
— 15 July 2009
Book - Love in the Time of Cholera
— 15 June 2009
Book - Fever Crumb
— 5 May 2009
Book - Journey to the End of the Night
— 25 April 2009
Book - A Darkling Plain
— 24 April 2009
Book - Predator's Gold
— 18 April 2009
Book - Infernal Devices
— 14 April 2009
Book - Mortal Engines
— 8 April 2009
Book - Crown of Shadows
— 1 March 2009
Book - When True Night Falls
— 24 January 2009
Book - Last Tango in Aberystwyth
— 10 January 2009
Book - Black Sun Rising
— 6 January 2009
Book - The Faithful Spy
— 23 November 2008
Book - The Lincoln Lawyer
— 17 November 2008
Book - Nothing to Lose
— 3 November 2008
Books - The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
— 28 October 2008
Book - Book of Joe
— 6 October 2008
Book - The Closers
— 26 August 2008
Book - The Narrows
— 14 August 2008
Book - The Poet
— 7 August 2008
Book - Supercrunchers
— 14 July 2008
Book - Blood Work
— 16 May 2008
Book - Lost Light
— 29 April 2008
Book Review - All Lee Child's books
— 28 April 2008
Book - Echo Park
— 25 April 2008
Book - The Overlook
— 20 April 2008
Book - Void Moon
— 16 April 2008
Book - The Heart of a Dog
— 11 April 2008
Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes - St Barnabas Church
— 2 April 2008
Book - The Master and Margarita
— 27 March 2008
Book - A Darkness More Than Night
— 2 March 2008
Book - Angels Flight
— 28 February 2008
Book - Trunk Music
— 27 February 2008
Book - The Last Coyote
— 16 February 2008
Book - The Black Ice
— 6 February 2008
Book - Bad Luck and Trouble
— 24 January 2008
Book - The Black Echo
— 24 January 2008
Book - One Shot
— 21 January 2008
Book - The Enemy
— 14 January 2008
Book - Persuader
— 7 January 2008
Book - Without Fail
— 27 December 2007
Josh Ritter: All grown-up!
— 23 November 2007
Book - Ways to Live Forever
— 10 August 2007
Book - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
— 17 July 2007
Book - Carry Me Down
— 17 March 2007
Book - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
— 6 February 2007
Book - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
— 1 February 2007
Book - The Amber Spyglass
— 14 January 2007
Books - The Subtle Knife
— 7 January 2007
Book - Northern Lights
— 5 January 2007
Books - Made in Italy
— 13 December 2006
Was that Santa?
— 3 December 2006
Book Festival - Giorgio Locatelli
— 8 November 2006
Book - From Finland with Love
— 30 July 2006
Book - The Ballad of Lee Cotton
— 30 July 2006
Play - Avenue Q
— 26 June 2006
Books - Doctored Evidence
— 19 June 2006
Books - Death at La Fenice
— 12 June 2006
Books - Uniform Justice
— 4 June 2006
Books - Gods in Alabama
— 18 May 2006
Books - Dublin
— 14 May 2006
Books - The Forrest
— 8 April 2006
World Book Day 2006
— 2 March 2006
Play - The Exonerated
— 22 February 2006
Play - James Saunders' Games & After Liverpool
— 3 February 2006
Puppet Show - Seas of Organillo
— 27 January 2006
Exhibition - China: The Three Emperors
— 5 January 2006
Books - The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
— 3 January 2006
Books - The Sum of All Fears
— 28 December 2005
Play - The Nutcracker
— 23 December 2005
Books - Red Rabbit
— 14 December 2005
Concert - Ezio
— 16 November 2005
Book - Bon Appetit!: Travels Through France with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew
— 7 November 2005
Chihuly at Kew Gardens
— 30 October 2005
Books - A Year in Provence
— 23 October 2005
Julius Caesar at the Lyric Hammersmith
— 23 September 2005
Book - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
— 16 September 2005
Play - Guys & Dolls
— 13 September 2005
Book - Freakonomics
— 30 August 2005
Book - Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
— 16 August 2005
Concert - Kings of Leon
— 19 June 2005
Books - Flashman and the Dragon
— 16 April 2005
Book - At the Edge of Honor
— 9 April 2005
Book - In Praise of Slow
— 9 March 2005
Play - A Raisin in the Sun
— 24 February 2005
Book - The Five People You Meet in Heaven
— 23 February 2005
Book - The Difference Engine
— 28 January 2005
Book - The Last Lighthouse Keeper
— 22 January 2005
Book - Trowel and Error
— 10 January 2005
Book - Back to the Garden
— 15 December 2004
Concert - Beastie Boys at Wembley
— 7 December 2004
Book - Defensive Design for the Web
— 1 December 2004
Books - The Last Days of Haute Cuisine
— 1 December 2004
Play - The Producers
— 30 November 2004
Book - Mother Tongue: The English Language
— 20 November 2004
Book - Kitchen Confidential
— 19 November 2004
Book - A Walk in the Woods
— 2 October 2004
Book - Notes from a Big Country
— 19 September 2004
Book - Made in America
— 15 September 2004
Book - Notes from a Small Island
— 7 September 2004
Book - A Short History of Nearly Everything
— 2 August 2004
Book - Darwin's Radio
— 20 July 2004
Books - Star of the Sea
— 12 July 2004
Opera - Die Fledermaus
— 2 July 2004
Play - The Shape of Things
— 15 May 2004
Opera - The Mikado
— 7 May 2004
Play - Endgame
— 22 April 2004
Play - The Pugalist Specialist
— 26 January 2004
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