re displaying our #LArcheLondon oak assistant crochet crations in the @rps_london shop @runnycustard
I love how everything is explained here at the AMNH so clear and understandable :)
Main news so far this month is that the Bromley HLF 'Parks for People' bid has been turned down, with the main reason being cited as the current possible development by ZhongRong Holdings . Also check out the 'Inspired by the Subway' project website, which has a page dedicated to the development...
I have just made a quick twitter update of the latest tweets in the ongoing Crystal Palace Development news...
Helped with a park survey today with the park community stakeholder group. Fascinating just how many dogs were in the park. Should have been counting dogs! Was also good to have conversations with people about my trail and think I have a couple of interested people... And I always gain good food for thought in any situation... I seem to let everything be an inspiration!!
Good morning Stratford and Olympic Park. ... Here for the re thinking parks Nesta day....
Hello all who is following!
I am grateful for your following and reading!
Apologies for the lack of recent updates, but the reason is purely that I have been spending my time on other work and with more of the organising.
I made a few classmates speak and be recorded by the audio recorder, which went well I think and I now feel ready to go with the proper recording. Forms all done and little ad's to give to anyone I meet who might want to take part. There has been a bit more social media advertising as well - through some people kindly offering to post my ad further on other local forums. I've ordered a few more books to look into and done a bit of an essay plan - for when I read the books! I am also going to listen again and carry out more audio trails in the coming week or so!
This weekend is the Crystal Palace Overground Festival - which I am quite excited about! I shall be trying to catch as much of it as possible and also again will always be on the lookout for new recruits! I am attending a reminiscence session tomorrow - with an unknown amount of attendees, but will be interesting all the same, regardless of if I meet anyone who would like their story recorded! I just love hearing anything new about Crystal Palace history! (Well any history to be honest!) I'll also be possibly helping out the LAS Theatre people, who I've never met, but seem to be creating something really interesting at the festival... they are creating a cabinet of curiosities and have variety of performers of science and more!
I've also been as before been observing all I can about the world around me - especially when on London buses - much more interesting that other forms of London transport - even from the sense that you get much more of a sense of scale of all around you! I am the nosiest traveller as well - looking at all that is going on outside!
I might upload a couple of quotes and/or pics to add some more bright to the blog!
I regard the city as a semi-extinct form. London is basically a nineteenth century city. And the habits of mind appropriate to the nineteenth century, which survive into the novels set in the London of the twentieth century, aren't really appropriate to understanding what is really going on in life today. I think the suburbs are more interesting than people will let on. In the suburbs you find uncentred lives... So that people have more freedom to explore their own imaginations, their own obsessions.
JG Ballard, Concrete Island, Introduction (1994) in Merlin Coverley's 'Psychogeography'
Some images from the free Moss Graffiti workshop this morning at the South London Botanical Institute. Beer is the important ingredient when it comes to making moss paint - and of course a nice cup of tea and cake to help with the process... check out: www.slbi.org.uk and www.zoeburt.com
American Folk Art Museum :) today after my ferry adventures...
A few years old but very interesting article about the time when there were four cinemas in Crystal Palace. At the moment the long ongoing campaign to bring back just one cinema continues with a dedicated team - Found on Twitter as: @picturepalace … They also posted this article on Facebook as ('Picture Palace Campaign') … Another worthy heritage cause that would have a present and future impact!
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