Archive for April, 2007

Turning Japanese

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

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 [...]

My blog’s new home

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

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 [...]

Race for Life

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

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 [...]

Drought in Australia makes front page in Britain

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

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 [...]

London Skate

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

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 [...]

The Curse of the Golden Flower

Friday, April 13th, 2007

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 [...]

Congo forest laid to waste

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

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 [...]