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Archives for December 2017

SUGAR CUBES AND FEMALE NUDES

18th December 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                          When the Queen shows up to open a new library or community centre she usually presses the flesh with important people and maybe makes a little speech saying how pleased she is to be there.  If it is anything to do with […]

Filed Under: Artists Tagged With: MODIGLIANI, TAE MODERN, TATE BRITAIN

MOTHER’S RUIN

16th December 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                                  Almost every time I go to Scotland I take a group to a distillery and, of course, we have a dram. (http://diaryofatouristguide.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/eating-around-england.html) For the first time ever, however, I visited a gin distillery last week. As this was just a couple of […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: GIN, GORDONS, HOGARTH

BOILS ON THE BOTTOM

4th December 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

When I do a tour of the British Museum I take the opportunity to mention Karl Marx who did most of his writing there (although the famous Reading Room has now moved to the British Library at St Pancras). It goes something like this with me playing the part of the man in charge: “Ah, […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: BRIDGE THEATRE, BRITISH MUSEUM, MARX

CRIME PAYS

4th December 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                              At least it did for Agatha Christie who wrote sixty six detective stories, a dozen collections of short stories, several successful plays, six romances and even a collection of children’s poetry resulting in sales of around two billion in over 100 languages. […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: AGATHE CHRISTIE, KAREN SHARPE, THE MOUSETRAP

BAGPIPES AND BUSKING

4th December 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                              I was leaving one of my favourite art galleries, the Pallant in Chichester, when I heard the sound of bagpipes.  They are a Scottish instrument and it is almost impossible to get farther away from Scotland in Britain than Sussex. Down […]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: BAGPIPES, BUSKING, Scotland

MRS THATCHER’S FINAL RESTING PLACE

4th December 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                With a week in London, I thought I would fill a few gaps in my knowledge and one of these was the grave of Mrs Thatcher – or Lady Thatcher as she became.  I knew that she and her husband Denis had links with the Chelsea Hospital […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: CHELSEA HOSPITAL, Chelsea pensioners, MRS THATCHER

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