I mentioned recently that I am volunteering at the British Museum this year. I am going to be taking weekly or fortnightly tours in the Japan Gallery. The gallery has been completely refurbished and contains treasures from Buddhist statues, samurai swords and medieval clocks to manga and contemporary ceramics. The tours are due to start [...]
Some of you may have been wondering why I hadn’t updated Caitlin in London recently. The reason of course is that I was busily preparing this new blog. I thought it time that I move to my own domain name, instead of piggy-backing off Blogspot (aka Blogger).
I am developing a professional website so that when [...]
I have signed up for the Race for Life on Sunday 3 June in the City of London. It’s a 5km race to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Please sponsor me and help me reach my target of £100. Anyone can donate but if you are a UK taxpayer you can increase the value [...]
The Independent has a unique news sense - either self indulgent or refreshingly different, depending on your point of view. Yesterday, the drought in Australia made the front page, with extended coverage inside.
The drought has been going on for many years but the reason The Indy decided to cover it now is because the [...]
I have graduated* from the Sunday Stroll to the medium-paced London Skate, which runs every Wednesday night through the summer.
Last week was the first Wednesday skate of the year and I was there! We had a good few hundred people skating and we made our way up to Camden via Westminster, Trafalgar Square, Soho, Holborn [...]
We went to see The Curse of the Golden Flower tonight. We went to the cinema up the road, a nice change from the over-priced and over-crowded cinemas in the West End. It meant that afterwards we could have a drink to discuss the movie and then walk home.
There are some spoilers in the following [...]
The Congo is a huge country, one of the largest countries in Africa. Unlike most of the countries in the region, it is still covered with vast tracts of virgin rainforest and is home to some of the world’s only surviving populations of gorillas. (In contrast, Uganda, a much smaller country, was pretty comprehensively deforested [...]