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 […]
. Hex colour reference: #8f509d A colourful note: vivid violet appeared as a new Crayola shade in 1997, a vary busy year for crayons. The company introduced a fair number of new […]
This Horseman of the Apocalypse, by street artist Fanakapan, decorates the walls of a now closed bar on Rivington Street, Shoreditch. Hex colour reference: #cda4de A colourful note: the light lavender […]