Here’s a mind boggling fact for you – almost every museum has more in its collections than it can ever put on display. Usually the places they are stored aren’t open to the public, being working spaces not set up for visitors. The London Transport Museum Depot in Acton is different, designed to open a few weekends a year. It’s…
View PostLooking for things to do with kids in London in July 2019? There’s always so many great events happening in London that sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. So, each month I’ll choose a few of the upcoming family events that I’m most excited about. That way you can spend less time planning family days out and more…
View Post‘Whoever saves a life, saves the whole world’. I’m watching Marina Abramović, or her avatar at least, slowly submerge in a tank of water – and I’m powerless to help her. Abramović’s first virtual reality work, Rising (2018) aims to bring home the life-threatening urgency of the climate crisis. I sit next to virtual polar ice caps as they melt,…
View PostWhich would you choose – a house or a dilapidated 80 year old fairground ride? That was the question John Carter posed to his wife Anna in 1977. Driven by her sense of adventure, Anna plumped for the Victorian gallopers – and so the family’s foray into funfairs began. Over forty years on, the Carters run the largest travelling steam…
View PostNothing says ‘I love you mum/dad’ more than a museum visit. Am I right? Well, I must have done some AWESOME parenting this year, because this Mother’s Day I got to finally ride Mail Rail. Long term readers will remember we were one of the first to visit the Postal Museum when it first opened back in Summer 2017, but…
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