This week’s sale and discount theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct are part of their “Spring Spectacular”. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/thi...

The Winnie-the-Pooh books are 100 years old, and a small exhibition of rare early editions and sketches has opened in Mayfair. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/win...

This is a weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news… www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

Remnants of COVID - the Nightingale Hospital carpark sign still up.

The huge used car supermarket Cargiant is closing. I look forward to plans being put forward for 4,000 homes next to the future HS2 station at Old Oak Common - and NIMBY protests to protect the natural environment of a used car sales warehouse.

Hormuz is Openz (says Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi - and only while there's a ceasefire)

This week’s sale and discount theatre ticket offers from London Theatre Direct are part of their “Spring Spectacular”. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/thi...

The Winnie-the-Pooh books are 100 years old, and a small exhibition of rare early editions and sketches has opened in Mayfair. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/win...

Tickets for £10 to see National Theatre plays next week will be released from 12:30pm today. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/fridayrush/

The Met Police are investigating objects left near the Israeli embassy, which have been claimed to contain dangerous substances.

When you've been promoted to Executive, but aren't important enough to have a company car.

Help - there used to be a TV show, probably a half hour on BBC2, that showed footage of major news events from a given year, interwoven with the music of the same year. (think 1982 being Falklands War and Come On Eileen) Does anyone remember it? I need the name for an article.

Been invited to a wine bar opening soon, which will be selling crisps with caviar. Now, a guilty indulgence is that I really love good caviar, so excuse me while I go sit in a corner crying at what they've done.

Happy Vaisakhi from 47 Upper Grosvenor Street.

Work to add new lifts at Wandsworth Town station means fewer trains will stop there this summer. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/few...

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"

This is a weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news… www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

Just under a century ago, a new town was built in East Tilbury to provide shoes to footsore Brits, and now an exhibition is telling the story of the Bata shoe company. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how...

This is how they film someone driving a car through Piccadilly Circus during rush hour.

The lost location of William Shakespeare’s only known London home may have been identified following the discovery of a previously unknown floor plan. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mys...

Thought I ws going to an exhibition press preview - go in, look, listen, learn... leave. Was a private view - which is more of a social event. If I am expected to be spontaneously sociable, I need a few days notice to prepare. Now depressed because yet again failed at the whole being social thing

A giant stone armour-clad hermit crab of a building has arrived in East London, as the latest expansion for the V&A’s growing empire of outposts. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fir...

The Barbican Music Gallery at the moment.

Work to add new lifts at Wandsworth Town station means fewer trains will stop there this summer. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/few...

Just under a century ago, a new town was built in East Tilbury to provide shoes to footsore Brits, and now an exhibition is telling the story of the Bata shoe company. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how...

The huge used car supermarket Cargiant is closing. I look forward to plans being put forward for 4,000 homes next to the future HS2 station at Old Oak Common - and NIMBY protests to protect the natural environment of a used car sales warehouse.

The lost location of William Shakespeare’s only known London home may have been identified following the discovery of a previously unknown floor plan. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mys...

Published on this day in 2024: www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cel...

A giant stone armour-clad hermit crab of a building has arrived in East London, as the latest expansion for the V&A’s growing empire of outposts. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fir...

Build me a modernist row of shops with flats above, but keep the Georgian bow windows. (West Drayton)

If you see Nigel Farage swapping tweed for tartan, it's because the Reform Party has just registered its own Scottish Tartan. www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

This is why I loathe the migration to podcasts -- takes too long to consume the content - not to mention, needs a "skip the annoying matey banter" button.

In Waitrose, you can buy a pizza that's been "discounted" to £5.04 because has to be eaten today - or pay £3 for one thats fine to eat in a few days time.

The new V&A East museum of staircases.

NIMBIES are a cancer