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My nine year-old son recommended this as an audiobook for a long drive, having been set it as a class reading book in both his school in sou...

This academic study of costume and production design in Doctor Who has been a stimulating read, full of connections and insights that are n...

Piranesi chronicles his exploration of a "labyrinth" of halls full of statues-with-meaning, the place liable to epic floods and th...

I've submitted a review of this for publication elsewhere, but Professor Roger Luckhurst (who I know) has produced a fascinating histor...

Portrait by Nimbos Last night, Nimbos took me on an extra-special birthday treat - to the top of the BT Tower. As part of the London...

“Agatha Christie remained inwardly detached from archaeology. She relished the archaeological life in remote country and made good use ...

In the summer of 2000, when dinosaurs still roamed the streets of south London and there were only eight Doctors Who, I hefted my possessio...

The builder currently rebuilding our house made a cool discovery: The house is at least 100 years old, possibly late 19th century. And there...

Blue Cat's protest sit-in while building works commenced this morning:

Had a nice couple of days' escape from London before our building work starts in earnest. Went to Ely for the afternoon, mooched round ...

It seems no time at all since I was blogging that we'd bought a flat . Ah, the happy, bouncy fellow that I was back then... Tomorrow, th...

This is the Monument , built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire of London. Climb the 311 steps to the viewing platform – as...

Those images you have been yearning to see... The cat has inspected every last detail but remains undecided on the whole business. But the n...

Since my last post , I've finished the first draft of the script and await notes from the Wise Folk. Of even less interest, I have paint...

Spent the weekend at the parents' and on Sunday morning my mum took me to Farley Mount . I've not been there since my early teens, b...