The Craft Centre and Design Gallery
One of the great things about writing for Leeds Living is the many and varied places and events I get to cover. A lot of them are pop-ups or launches, so it was refreshing to be directed towards The Craft Centre, which is celebrating its 35th Birthday this year. In its early days there were […]
Gastronomica Experiencia at Pintura
Let’s go on a flight of fancy together. We will pretend that we are celebrities with a book, play or film to promote. We are not the ‘A’ listers who would have flown in from Hollywood or New York to be on The Graham Norton Show, neither are we the ‘Z’ listers and has-beens who […]
Vice Brunch at Vice & Virtue
I sometimes wonder what foreigners make of British eating habits. We seem to have so many different meals in a day: breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea and dinner or supper. Even our national summer sport of cricket must be the only game in the world with two meal breaks plus drinks. To add to the confusion […]
Let’s Do Lunch at The Gravy Train, Trinity Kitchen
Canada. By rights this country should have the best cuisine imaginable. It has the longest coastline in the world at 243,000km on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans, so has access to an incredible variety of fish, there is the unending Prairie producing enough grain to feed most of the planet, plains with herds of […]
Little Greats Part 2 – Osud and Trouble in Tahiti – A Review
I had hoped to cover all of the productions in Opera North’s Little Greats season but owing to various circumstances I only caught four out of the six on offer. My review of the first pairing was some weeks ago, so here is what I thought of the other two. Once again, the variety of […]
