Let them eat cake
Marie Antionette never said the words for which she is most famous. And according to some, the beheaded Queen may not even have said,...
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Dougie
May 23, 20223 min read
There are no galleries in this space.
No galleries today. We are simply meeting people. Other people. Just not inside any great cultural institution (unless we're talking...
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Dougie
May 22, 20224 min read
A Gallery Too Far ...?
To paraphrase the 1977 Second World War "blockbuster" movie, A Bridge Too Far starring Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and...
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Dougie
May 21, 20223 min read
Coming at the world through its side doors
We had no plans for today. And after a slow start (which sometimes happens with us quadriplegics) we made it out of the hotel with only...
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Dougie
May 20, 20223 min read
Possession is nine-tenths of ownership.
We visited the British Museum today (for the first time in my life -- strangely enough, given I used to work less than half a mile distant...
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Dougie
May 19, 20223 min read
London at it's very best
I worked in London for three years, back in the early 1980s. I was fortunate to become National Secretary of the National Union of...
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Dougie
May 19, 20226 min read
Mountain or mole hill?
I am a comparatively experienced wheelchair traveller. I broke my neck in June1984. I was discharged from hospital ten months later in...
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Dougie
May 18, 20221 min read
À Londres
Aujourd'hui nous quittons Paris. Je suis désolé. Mais chaque nuage a une doublure argentée. Nous serons de retour dans quelques semaines...
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