Krava-hydrates
Breakfast for me is a serious business: it’s got to be slow release, with protein, and low GI. I’m not an ascetic, I just like food too much: I’d no…
Places that are still there #2: The Cosmoba, Bloomsbury
I can’t walk anywhere in Bloomsbury without being wistfully rushed back in time to when I was a student at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies back in…
“Push a little button”
This is the nicest story I’ve come across for a long time. Ninette was a student on a course I taught on the BA (Hons) in Dance Education at the…
Gender, Mao, ballet
Performing Gender in Maoist Ballet: Mutual Subversions of Genre and Ideology in The Red Detachment of Women. Interesting online scholarly article by Rosemary Roberts which does what it says on…
Jan Moir and ‘orchestration’
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised: how likely was it that Jan Moir would get her knuckles properly rapped for her nasty article on Stephen Gately? It oozed with latent…
Tooting swimming times again
Update on 29th July 2012 – DCL leisure at last have a really good online timetable for all their pools, including Tooting. You can filter the timetable for lane swimming,…