If you’ve ever fancied yourself as Willy Wonka’s protégé now’s your chance to dabble in the delectable dark (chocolate) arts by making treats that will rival the most popular shop bought chocolate bars.
I used to love Bounty bars when I was wee but the truth is they are so easy – and cheap – to recreate at home there’s really no need to buy them in the shops.
‘Misty’ from Soth’s Niagara collection. Photo credit: Alec Soth
So impressed was I by my Friday night visit to the Science Museum that I headed back over to South Kensington the following day to catch another exhibition that is finishing soon, Gathered Leaves by American photographer, Alec Soth.
Again, this is another beautifully curated exhibition – poles apart from the Cosmonauts I had seen the day before – but no less impressive. The photographs are grouped by room chronicling the everyday in different locations across the United States.
The road to the stars is open.
– Sergei Korolev, 1957
I had been meaning to catch the Cosmonauts exhibition at the Science Museum for a while so when I heard they would be open until 10pm every Friday until the exhibition closes I decided to kickstart my weekend with a trip to Outer Space – (the jokes get worse from hereon in. Sorry.)
2016 got off to a great start with lots of things to see and do. Here are a few of my favourites!.
First up has to be blowing the dust off my ArtFund card and checking out what the museums of London had to offer. I wrote about my favourite exhibition – Lee Miller – here.
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
-Imelda Marcos
I have always been envious of my mother’s ability to walk into a shoe shop armed with the knowledge there would be a pair in the store that might very well be perfect for her.
Sadly, like Jack’s beanstalk, my feet grew and grew until I stopped being shown the cinderella section of the shop in favour for the clunky men’s designs. That was until I discovered a few online stores that catered for my size 9s and as my credit card burned hot with overuse my love of shoes was reborn.
Tales of adventure 