LONDON SLANT: NEW AT KEW
No matter how many times I visit London’s Kew Gardens (and it’s a lot) every time I go I see something new. I never cease to be amazed at how somewhere so seemingly “natural” can be so innovative. But...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: NIGHT OUT WITH THE STARS
Some months back I wrote about how I’d been given a mini telescope. I had visions of packing my new toy into its snazzy little backpack and taking off for exotic climes where I’d view the stars on hot...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: GO WEST, YOUNG EASTER BUNNY
Happy Easter, everyone! The sky’s bright blue and I long to put on my hiking boots and head for the hills. But it’s far too chilly for the Chilterns, so join me on a West London Easter walk. Easter...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: NEW LIFE FOR A PLACE OF SLEEP
Bunhill Fields, a leafy graveyard in London’s financial district, is a welcome patch of green among looming concrete and glass. The final resting place of colourful characters including William Blake...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: THE TRIUMPH OF THE TREES
Imagine what it’s like to be a tree in London. Not a pampered sort that sits in parks and gardens, but a rough, tough plane or elm out there on the street. A tree that lives in a small quadrangle of...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: A COUNTRY WALK FROM LEICESTER SQUARE
Join me on a walk through fields and woods from Leicester Square. But forget mega-cinemas and heaving bars. We’re heading 80 minutes south of central London to Penshurst village, the “original” spot to...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: WHAT’S HIDING BEHIND THE GARDEN WALLS?
Why would anyone open their private garden gate and let strangers come tramping in? What possesses owners of fabulous green hideaways to offer all-comers the chance to tread on their specimen plants?...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: MR FOX, I’M ON YOUR TAIL
It started, innocently enough, around four years ago. Returning home one Thursday night, there he was. Tripping along the pavement with his nose in the air. This was the most urbane and elegant of...
View ArticleLONDON SLANT: A SERPENTINE MEANDER
The swallows have swooped in, roses have burst into flower—and the Serpentine Pavilion has sprouted in Kensington Gardens. There may be other signs to the contrary, but these three arrivals announce...
View ArticleLondon Slant: Inside the house of Britain’s richest man
Imagine the house of a man who in the 1940s was the wealthiest self-made man in the UK. An industrialist who during his lifetime gave around £1 billion to charity in today’s terms. Walls covered in...
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