I thought I had been in a Dr. Who police box and been taken back 50 years. This place called Rockaway Park was BLISS. I love love love installation art and things that are way out there. I had no idea that such a place existed, unadvertised and unmarked. If I say to locals that it is in Eastcourt Road, Temple Cloud, you still could not find it. I met the partner of the owner Marta (still with a...
On to Priddy with its annual Rural Fun Day. The triangular Green offers a natural environment for stalls and entertainment of all kinds. At first glance the layout seemed ramshackle and lacking in features but I soon started to be impressed. There were a number of 'car boot' type stalls offering tat with varying degrees of age and usefulness. I walked past them with hardly a glance. We then...
Thursday 22 September 1664 ...To the ‘Change at noon, and among other things discoursed with Sir William Warren what I might do to get a little money by carrying of deales to Tangier, and told him the opportunity I have there of doing it, and he did give me some advice, though not so good as he would have done at any other time of the year, but such as I hope to make good use of, and get a...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
