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London Transport Museum review: Is it worth the trip?
The London Transport Museum* has been on my bucket list for quite some time. Social and cultural history is probably my biggest area of interest when it comes to history – and there isn’t much else as intertwined with London’s social and cultural history as its transport system. As a serial looker-upper when I’m out…
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IWM London review: Is it worth the trip?
As part of my rediscovery of my love for museums, I’m embarking on a bit of a project to try and visit more of them this year – and beyond (because, let’s face it, it’s going to take me a lot longer than a year to get through them all). To prove to myself that…
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A love letter to… museums
I really love museums. This probably isn’t a surprising statement to read, given the title of this post. But it felt important to point out at the start. I’m afraid I’m one of those tedious people who wanders slowly around, stopping to read every label, open every drawer, listen to every audio snippet on my…
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Things I loved in February
Well. Despite the efforts of leap-day to destroy me completely, we have made it to the end of February. I thought January was extra-January this year, then February came along screaming HOLD MY BEER, to really test my resolve. I could succumb to the temptation to wallow in all the ways that this month has…
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I just want to go to the theatre
I haven’t been to the theatre since 2018. Not because it’s expensive (it is), or because of Covid (which didn’t help, admittedly). Because I’m fat. Last time I went to the theatre, it took a week for the deep bruises on my hips and thighs to fade. Weeks more for the pain in my knees,…
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Appreciating the little things
One of the biggest things that came out of the pandemic for me was a renewed appreciation of life’s small joys. You know, the things that so often slip by unnoticed…until they’re absent.
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A love letter to….reading
It turns out that what I needed more than anything was the right book to get my groove back and remember why I loved reading so much in the first place. It quiets my chaotic, ADHD brain in a way that nothing else can.
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Stephanie Franklin 