Malice in Wonderland

An arresting picture; it features in an exhibition at the V&A, Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, about Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book.

Home Cooking

This is what I should have been listening to as I made tonno e fagioli yesterday morning but there is no CD player in the kitchen. I have ordered one and it will be delivered today.

Another Hammersmith Horror

Another bit of interesting architecture falls to the wrecker’s ball. It was a vaguely Art Deco garage ( a miniature Hoover building) although it has been empty for a few years as a developer bought up the whole block.

Courage Never to Submit

Mary Alison was born in Northumberland and like many Northumbrians had determination and great reserves of strength; she was to need both.

Living on the Edge

Proposals to change the boundaries for parliamentary constituencies were made in 2013. They were not acted on.

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La Traviata

To Holland Park for La Traviata last night. The two Traviatas I remember are Franco Zeffirelli’ 1982 film and a 2013 production by the Met.

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Sasha’s Diary

Politics runs through Sasha Swire’s veins. Her father is Sir John Nott, Minister of Defence during the Falklands war, and her husband is Sir Hugo Swire, Conservative MP and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as it then was.

Up at the Net

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was thirty-three when this was published in Vanity Fair.

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