Tag: london
-
Growing Mushrooms, Moss and Lavender – Part II (1 year later)
About one year ago (See Part I) I attempted to grow some mushrooms, moss, and lavender. Nothing happened to the […]
-
The Parallel Tottenham of the Endless All-Encompassing Everything Football
Last week we went to White Hart Lane, although we had meant to go to Cambridge Heath, but we had […]
-
Material Culture and the Artefacts of Science History (Treasures Cadogan, Natural History Museum, London, Jan 2014)
In a small, special room tucked away in one corner of the Natural History Museum are a number of significant […]
-
Scientific Illustrations for the Blind (Natural History Museum, London, Jan 2014)
In the last few months I’ve gotten quite interested in scientific illustration and scientific models. Just as I am fascinated […]
-
Exotic fruit and vegetable: Pepino, Curuba, Tamarillo, Lulo, Pawpaw, Kaki, Kohlrabi, Passionfruit
The Fresh & Fruity around the corner from our house is undoubtedly one of the main reasons I like living […]
-
“Biggest Drain Cover I Have Ever Seen” turns out to be “Not A Drain Cover After All”
Today at Markfield Park we saw what I thought must be the biggest drain cover I had ever seen in […]
-
Urban Lichen, or maybe just “The City of Gum”
Yesterday after two continuous days of thinking about mould, on the way home I saw these ubiquitous splotches on the […]
-
A Walk around Stoke Newington on Boxing Day
Yesterday I decided to walk from Stamford Hill to Stoke Newington via the residential backroads. My plan had been to […]
-
Crossing the English Channel / French Girolles
Calais P&O Ferry Dover I’ve taken the Eurostar quite a few times but tickets were really costly this time of […]
-
Growing Mushrooms, Moss and Lavender – Part I
Growing Mushrooms I’m currently trying to grow Oyster Mushrooms. I bought a small quantity of oyster mushroom spawn on ebay […]