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This is the rather grand name given for the pop-up shop at The Architecture Centre over the next few weeks. I’ve got some of my drawin...

I had the opportunity to visit Birmingham’s new £189million library last Friday. From the onset, having had brief glimpses of the b...

Moira+I spent today at Colston Hall listening to some 16 speakers (and six previously-recorded TED talks from around the world) on the...

More book stuff: Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell ): This is a truly remarkable book. It’s a work of exceptional imagination and insight ...

Moira+I went along to St George’s Bristol on Wednesday to hear Karine Polwart perform (alongside her talented guitarist brother Steven a...

Moira+I went to the Tobacco Factory Theatre last night to see Dawn King’s “Ciphers” – a play accurately described in the blurb as a “ ...

I’m never ill… well, not until this past week, that was. Over the past few days, I’ve been feeling distinctly under-par and have even...

I was completely opposed to the privatisation of the Royal Mail. Today, Vince Cable is due to appear before Parliament’s “Business, I...

This is the title of a book by journalist Dan Hancox and I went along to Foyles Bookshop last night to hear him talk about the place, th...

Moira+I went to the Old Vic last night to see Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations”. Having read glowing...

Gareth, Alan, Moira+I did NOT go to Paris for the weekend, but we did see Roger Mitchell’s film, Le Week-End, at the Watershed… which fe...

More book stuff: A Perfectly Good Man (Patrick Gale ): The story deals with the interwoven lives of the inhabitants of a Cornish vil...

Karen, Moira+I went along to the Watershed yesterday afternoon to see Woody Allen’s latest film, Blue Jasmine. It’s a story of a forme...

Ruth+I went to a concert at a cemetery last night… as you do. Singer/songwriter/pianist Daisy Chapman was appearing in the Anglican C...

Moira+I are SO lucky… we have three of our grandchildren (and their lovely parents!) living in Bristol and so we have the huge privilege ...

More book stuff: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot ): This is our Book Group’s latest book. It’s a true-story acc...

I went along to the County Ground, Bristol yesterday to watch the last day of the final game of the cricket season (and, somewhat ridi...

No, this isn’t about the next General Election… Moira+I went along to the Brewery Theatre last night to see/hear Jason Robert Brown...

It doesn’t seem like a year ago that I started my “ one day like this ” blog… Following my return-to-sketching experiences on Iona ...

Saw Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film “The Great Beauty” this afternoon at the Watershed. It’s set in Rome and revolves around an agei...