Category: Newcastle

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter is lovely exhibition at the Laing, focused on tailpieces and other small vignettes. The emphasis on landscapes in the title feels a tiny (hah) bit misleading …

Slightly over a week in, already tired of it. Closer to home it’s been not so bad though. Christmas was pleasant, twixmas quiet, and we had visitors for an at-home NYE and a few days …

We are in the runup to the end of the year, marked mainly by top ten of the year articles, app year-in-review marketing campaigns, and roundup blog posts. So here I am doing my bit. …

If you know me, you know I love a gimmick, so I was very excited to go see the space prog rock band Henge on their current tour. They call their sound cosmic dross, and …

We had a Halloween party again this year, cosmic horror themed this time. Almost everyone wore some sort of costume, and as Halloween fell on a Friday this time we had lots of trick-or-treaters to …

I had been under the impression that Bristolcon was a newish convention, a decade or so old, but it has been running since 2009. For most of its run it was a one-day event, but …

My sister was visiting earlier this week, so we took the opportunity to visit Hartlepool’s Royal Navy Museum, she has some interest in that area of British history. I know Hartlepool primarily through the cheery-sounding …