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Well, moving away from London with this post to a City in the UK I haven't visited yet! We were up around that way a year or so ago staying in Chester which was a lovely place to stay and did and a few trips into places such as Shrewsbury, again another lovely experience. We were due to go to Wales and visit Snowdonia National Park but sadly due to the whole COVID thing it got cancelled. Anyway with a…

Such A Digital Lifetime Ago. For this this post, not so much a physical journey, but more a mental one in remembering old sounds and school memories. This record reaching the heady heights of #13 in the UK charts in January 1980. Living By Numbers at youtube by the band New Musik with it's wonderfully diverse cross section of southern accents ranging from South and East London and some slightly more 'clipped British accents'. The track was pretty ahead of…

Well, another weekend and another trot around the Capital, we had booked some free tickets for an Art Exhibition at the Town Hall in High Street Kensington with over 200 artists' work on display, to be honest it didn't take so long to look at, the work was good in some cases, but quite over priced, still made a nice change. We came out and headed along High Street Kensington via some charity shops towards the Design Museum (again another…

This post is looking at a town in Hertfordshire located about 20 miles north of London called Welwyn Garden City and a couple bands from that neck of the woods. The 'Garden City' bit relates to the urban planning movement set up in the 1920's which saw areas outside of London such as Letchworth and Welwyn develop and combine the space for residences, industry and agriculture, but away from the City and located in areas of countryside. Above Letchworth in…

Ah! the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd! (or should it be the other way round?🎭). We recently had a trip to 'Theatreland' to catch a comedy called 'The Unfriend' starring Reece Shearsmith (League Of Gentlemen and Inside No.9). The play is written by Stephen Moffat (BBC's Sherlock) and directed by Mark Gatiss also of the same teams as those shows already mentioned. I guess many of us may have experienced it, you know, you go on…