More people are cycling – we need cycle lanes

Cycling is good for you and environmental – but its scary driving a car when cyclists ride 2 abreast on narrow country roads, do sudden breaks and turn across the road without indicating. We need to prioritise building cycle lanes like Holland and other European countries and some cyclists need to look at the highway […]

Brighton Pierrots – Walter Sickert

Watched by accident a review of an english impressionist artist – Walter Sickert – who visiting Brighton after meeting Edgar Degas – also began painting a series of music hall scenes. Brighton perhaps because it is a seaside lady had many music halls and like you will find performing on the streets of Paris […]

Liam Gallagher – Live Forever – Ariana Grande with Coldplay – Dont Look Back in Anger

London

What happened yesterday in London was a terrible thing and the police and emergency services have done and are doing an incredible job to care for and protect innocent victims caught up in yesterdays events. cant imagine what the surviving people and family and friends of all of them are feeling today but in my […]

Transport for London – Congestion Zone and Low Emission Zone

Travelling thru London by car is exciting but challenging but negotiating the Transport for London’s website for Congestion Charging is down right hairy. We travelled into London by car outside the Congestion Zone (which is mainly the tourist part of London) but when we got home a day later – decided to put our number […]

Summer afternoon in the sunshine

Magic Lantern Festival – Chiswick House and Gardens

until March 6th at Chiswick House and Gardens

Sam

Today the London to Brighton cycle ride flowed past the entrance to our small lane and managed to get across and drive along the edge of the Downs to Clayton but as we drove along saw a lovely old collie, alone on the road, who it turned out was running away from home – worried […]

Richmond Park

Today we drove up to Richmond Park again to see the deers. We went in the middle of the day to avoid the traffic in suburbs of London and turned off M25 at junction 12 which took us right into Richmond High Street on the A316 – past landmarks like Twickenham Rugby ground and the […]