London’s Brick Lane saw an imaginatively titled festival yesterday – The Brick Lane Festival. The more unimaginative of you may have decided to kill two birds with one stone and taken in a few curried items in the curry cooking celebration, and then wandered on to the Body Worlds exhibition, also on Brick Lane. If […]

When you return from a sabbatical to your job, think of a very long school holiday. Think of returning to school, but imagine that the school has no playtime, no breaktime, and they don’t play sport for a few hours a week. Nor do you get to leave at 4pm. Returning to your office might

The second helping of party fun was on a boat cruise along the Thames. In that very vessel, as I paraded about in a silk jacket, Martin Spellman informed me that I was got up like Martin Fry. He proceeded to explain that Martin Fry was the frontman from ABC, and though I’m partial to