This decorated door in Shoreditch is the work of Hong Kong artist, HIN, now based in London. Hex colour reference: #fdd7e4 A colourful note: piggy pink is a Crayola shade […]
– Hex colour ref: #f75394 A colourful note: violet red made its Crayola appearance in 1958. Crayola described it as a replacement name for their Magenta colour, but if you […]
– Hex Colour ref: ffbcd9 A colourful note: no pier or funfair would be meeting cultural standards if it didn’t sell cotton candy (candy floss in the UK and New Zealand; […]
– Hex colour reference: e6a8d7 A colourful note: the first recorded use of orchid as a colour name in English was in 1915, The actual shade varies possibly more than any […]
I hope you all said “White Rabbit!” or Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit” when you woke up this morning. This long-dating superstition, with unclear origin, should bring you a present or some […]
This month, we had major excitement in St Albans. On a grey and rainy day, there was filming in and around the Abbey for the forthcoming series of Netflix’s […]
. Hex colour reference: #fc74fd A colourful note: the joyous pink flamingo colour joined the Crayola range in 1997. The origin of the word flamingo itself is derived from Spanish flamenco, meaning “flame-coloured” and […]
Alfred Jarry (1873 – 1907) was a French writer known best for his play “Ubu Roi” and his creation of the term pataphysics, a concept in which every event in the universe […]
Hex colour ref: c364c5 A colourful note: fuchsia is a purplish-pink colour named after the plant of the same name. The plant was discovered in the late 17th century and was named […]
Before the Canary Wharf that we see today, this area was one of the busiest docks in the world. The first dock in East London opened in the 1690s and […]