If you follow my Twitter stream, you’ll know that over the last month or so, I’ve been preparing to leave London, and my job as a Web Producer the Science Museum, to move up north to Manchester, where I’ll shortly be starting as an Experience Designer for Rattle Reseach. Well, now that I’ve actually done [...]
Today marks the start of the London’s Low Emission Zone. This basically means that, within the zone, which pretty much encompasses the whole of Greater London administrative area, lorries and Heavy Goods Vehicles have got to meet certain standards for minimising exhaust pollution (mostly concerning NOx – Nitrogen Oxides – and ‘particulate matter‘). Lorries that [...]
The topic of the day (in offices and homes in London at least), is the new London 2012 Olympics logo. It is, of course, pretty rubbish, and I predict that we’ll see a growing uprising (and subsequent media reportage) against it over the coming days and weeks. Possibly even followed by a humiliating climb-down. I [...]
Went to the Horniman Museum yesterday, seeing as it’s just on my doorstep in South London. The museum staffer in me picked up on a few things, but I also enjoyed it as just a visitor too. I jotted down a few notes when I got back, which I’ve shared below for anyone interested. General [...]
The super-casino contenders. Please let it be Blackpool, and not London! Update: Surprise decision just in: Manchester has won the licence.
Here’s a question for the London tube bloggers out there – Diamond Geezer and Annie Mole, I’m looking at you. Why is there always classical music playing at Brixton tube station?
Today and tomorrow are the last two days in which you can lend your favourite toy to the Science Museum, where it will sit on display in an exhibition open until the end of January. National museums, such as the Science Museum, have strict rules about object acquisitions, and so can rarely accept donated objects, [...]
The privatisation of the railways is one of the worst legacies of the Tory government. Whilst the railways are, in some metrics, improving and expanding, this is only due to increased public investment, long overdue after decades of neglect. I remember quizzing our local New Labour MP Stephen Timms during a session at school, asking [...]
This is the first of a possible series of monthly posts summing up the best and most interesting exhibitions on in London. For December 2006, there are plenty of things worth checking out, in between all the Christmas partying and shopping. The Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington, is currently pushing its Da Vinci exhibition [...]