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Things I’ve loved in May
Is it me, or did May fly by? With me spending the first week of the month on holiday, coming straight home and into my new job (which, I’m delighted to report, is still wonderful nearly a month in) and a healthy dose of what my mother has taken to calling “gallivanting*”, it only seems…
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Things I watched in April
Not one to do things by half, this month I’ve gone from not seeing anything for over six years, to seeing six shows in the space of just over a fortnight. Completely normal behaviour, I think you’ll agree. Because I’m not a theatre critic (I prefer sitting back and enjoying the show to making notes…
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I read a book: Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
Full disclosure at the top: I was lucky enough to be sent a proof of this book to read ahead of its publication later in May. Nobody has asked or told me what to write (believe me – nobody would have told me to write any of what’s coming), and these are my honest thoughts.…
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Things I loved in April
Spring always seems to usher in change for me, and this year has been no different. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks saying a lot of goodbyes as I left my old job – and a significant chapter of my life – behind. So here we are. April has been and almost gone, and…
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When Forms Come Alive: Is it worth the trip?
So far, 2024 has involved more art than the entire rest of my three and a half decades on this planet combined. It’s been a very steep learning curve – art appreciation is an entirely new world for me, and not a particularly comfortable one for the most part. Having said that, I’ve been enjoying…
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Women in Revolt! exhibition review: Is it worth the trip?
Another stop on one of my March exhibition-expeditions (more about which here) was my first visit to Tate Britain. I was mainly there to see their current exhibition, Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. According to the Gallery’s website, it “presents two decades of art as provocation, protest and progress” and…
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Things I’ve Loved in March
March. Well. We’ve made it through another month – and dare I say, we’ve made it through the winter? On a personal level, March has mostly followed the example set by the last couple of weeks of February: it’s been a tough one. Things have – at last – started to look up in the…
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The National Gallery: Is it worth the trip?
This is the visit where I realised that not all art galleries are created equal. Another place that’s long been on my “I really ought to go and see that one day” list, my fondness for watching old episodes of Fake or Fortune on iPlayer pushed this one higher up in my priorities. It ended…
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Cute exhibition review: Is it worth the trip?
If you’ve travelled anywhere in or around London in the last few months, you’ll likely have seen at least one advert for Cute, which has been open at Somerset House since the end of January. The AI-generated rainbow kitticorns have, honestly, been everywhere. If you somehow managed to miss them, let me catch you up.…
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I read a book: Daisy Jones and the Six
In my very first Love Letter (my very first post full stop, in fact) last summer, I talked about how I finally managed to rekindle my love of reading. Although it’s dropped off slightly again since then, I have managed to keep up a better pace. There’s been a lot of non-fiction – mostly research…
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