A return to blogging
I haven't blogged in a long time.
I've been itching to write a blog alongside my portfolio for years, but I could never make my mind up about which website builder/host to move to. I find WordPress too complicated to use, Squarespace too expensive, and Wix... well, actually Wix was my favourite out of the three, but I still thought I could do it without having to fork out £19+ a month. I certainly don't mind the modest £10 a year it costs me for a domain, so it was all about finding a platform that was either very cheap or free, and so I landed back on Blogspot.
My previous blog is long gone and I do miss it slightly, but here's to a new start!
Let me talk you through my month.
Top row: I went to see Macbeth at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London on Saturday (19th October). It was a breathtaking production, a performance I will never forget. I noticed they were selling vinyl at the bar and told myself I would pick one up after the show, and obviously I forgot. I only remembered while I was at King's Cross, 20 minutes from catching my train home, so I desperately emailed the theatre. They got back to me a few days later and offered to send me one. They told me to purchase the vinyl through their Order At Seat service then send them a pre-paid postage label and they would send it to me. I was floored. That money left my account at lightning speed. The beautiful vinyl pictured above arrived on my doorstep 3 days later.
Middle and bottom rows: The week prior to Macbeth (couldn't combine the trips because of work, grr) I was in London for my biannual shopping and sightseeing trip (7th - 11th October). I like to save up a big chunk of money and blow it all in my favourite shops (Choosing Keeping which is pictured above is one I always make time for, to me it's the most magical place on earth). This trip included my first time seeing the beautiful Great Bed of Ware at the V&A. A magnificent piece of furniture built around 1590 by Hans Vredeman de Vries. It's such a cool thing to see in real life. I took some really rubbish and slightly grainy photos of it but we'll not dwell on that.
I love exploring bookshops in London. This might be a basic choice, but my favourite is the Waterstones on Piccadilly. Six floors of unadulterated joy. I love their Shakespeare section because they stock the No Fear Shakespeare study guides by SparkNotes - they have the modern English translation on the opposite page so you can follow along and understand the plot more easily (it made seeing Macbeth even more enjoyable). During this trip I picked up Want, a collection of anonymous sexual fantasies of women from all around the world compiled by Gillian Anderson. I'm only around 10 or so pages in but it's a wonderful read so far. Also the cover is magnificent and I want to frame it.
Not every month is going to be quite as exciting as this one. I don't have any theatre trips planned until March, but I'll go into that in another post. I'm hoping to have a very quiet, very slow, very frugal end to the year.
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