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Serious selfies, spring, and sensations

Thank you very much to all the contributors to Week 12’s 15 posts. Since I am behind on summaries, I hope that this brief summary will be enough to lead you to explore these posts. I found them all well worth

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Houdini In Cardiff

Joseph Conaghan shares an autographed picture of the Great Houdini and connects it with a place in Cardiff where the escapologist failed to escape a beating. It’s a great reminder of how the back alleys of our towns and cities

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Brisbane to Melbourne and a little Grand Designs

Another episode in the story of Samuel-James Wilson’s adventures in Australia, with some sunny pictures for those back in storm-tossed Britain to appreciate. This episode includes getting into a talk about Grand Designs by Kevin McCloud. I’m sure everyone who

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First time for everything

This week Simon Harrington shares with us some new experiences he’s been having recently. These include doing a live radio interview, visiting some of Dubai’s impressive landmarks, having a facial and stealing a shopping trolley. All becomes clear as to

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Language, art and a bit of elbow grease

We’ve had 10 contributions this week – thanks to everyone who’s blogged, read and liked the posts, as well as anyone who’s decided to follow the blog. It’s been great reading all your posts, and I highly recommend looking after

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Urban walk July 2013

It can be easy for us to miss beautiful things and places that are right on our doorstep when we see them every day. Fortunately Janet Davis has chronicled a walk in two different areas of her city, with a bus

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Thinking out loud

Artist Janet Davis has been looking for some inspiration for her own work and future direction, in particular around the idea of books and multiples, and the opportunity of pulling together some of her images she has of Ouseburn. Janet

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Urban walk June 2013 part 3

In Janet Davis’s 3rd Urban Walks post for week 24, we are now on the return journey back home.  This set ends in the southern end of Ouseburn, at the eastern end of Newcastle’s Quayside, and shows some of the

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Sensibility, sociability, common sense and cake

I might have missed some (do tweet us if I have and point us at the relevant link, please), although I did look carefully (several times), but there were only twelve posts in Week 18 of Weekly Blog Club –

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Modern Art Desserts by Caitlin Freeman

Warning: this post contains a link that leads to pictures of aesthetic cake. I once wanted to create whole dinners based on art history. I think it could be a great way to teach art history – dinner parties on

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