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The Voluptuous Manifesto: April 2015
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Discover London – before it's too late. Some years ago, just as I was getting interested in photography, I took to going on Sunday morning photo safaris around London. Some were to the more salubrious areas, some to where visitors mass and others still to streets and alleys that will not be likely to find themselves on the tourist trail. 8216;Yes,’ I thought: ‘discover London before it’s too late.’. Falkirk Street, Hackney. Now I w...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: Food, glorious food. Or not
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Wednesday, 15 July 2015. Food, glorious food. Or not. It was the best of England; it was the worst of England. It was a reminder of why we should take more breaks in the UK – and a reminder of why we don’t. With The Other Half in recuperative mode, and both of us having ditched the tobacco, we decided, at short notice, to grab a long weekend away from London – to somewhere where we might stand a chance of breathing clean air. Well, one of those downsides ...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: Making sure your diet has gotta lotta bottle
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Monday, 27 July 2015. Making sure your diet has gotta lotta bottle. If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to have you looking again at your diet and wondering if it’s nurturing you or killing you, then it’s something such as a heart attack in the family. The Other Half is now attending rehab sessions after his recent Event and these include a weekly talk. It’s probably already far more of a problem than most of us realise. Of course, the milk-drinking ad...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: May 2015
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Sunday, 24 May 2015. The dealer who made the Impressionists. If the first few months of the year nearly saw me miss Goya at the Courthauld and Dumas at the Tate Modern, I managed to get organised in time – just – to book almost a whole week in advance in order to catch Inventing Impressionism. At the National Gallery, with just days to go. In the event, it was a delightful trip – and a fascinating one. Hanging the Laundry Out to Dry. There’s an odd ...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: Finding art in Rye and Hastings
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Friday, 24 July 2015. Finding art in Rye and Hastings. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that much of my own art takes as its starting point the built environment – after all, I live in a pretty extreme version of that and experience it on a daily basis. But our trip to Rye was not limited by walls, and the outdoors and natural worlds that we found ourselves enjoying is clearly. An inspiration to plenty of artists working in the area. The Edge of the Wood.
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: January 2015
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Friday, 30 January 2015. A tale of vaginas and how some expect us to behave. It’s been a wonderful couple of days for vaginas. Only yesterday, news emerged that, addressing the Cambridge Union Society earlier this week, good old Germaine Greer observed that trans women weren’t real women because they don’t know what it’s like “to have a big, hairy, smelly vagina”. Then today, the hashtag #NoHymenNoDiamond appeared on my Twitter timeline. Certainly a steam...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: October 2014
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Thursday, 30 October 2014. Tranquil views of the London landscape. Exhibitions: you wait for months and then several come along, one after the other. It certainly felt a little like that last week: just two days after attending the launch of the excellent A London Eye: here Artists Look. At the Leyden Gallery in E1, another invite popped up for another opening that, in a happy coincidence, followed on really rather well from that. But these paintings crea...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: June 2015
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Tuesday, 2 June 2015. Sinister warnings, infantilised debate and British 'values'. In the last few weeks, as the phrase has floated back and forth, like a cloud over the post-election horizon, I have found myself mulling precisely what “British values” are. If there are values that are specifically “British” then they must be unique to this nation and different from values anywhere else. Freedom of speech, perhaps? Exactly the same questions apply. This, ...
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The Voluptuous Manifesto: December 2014
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All work and no play makes Jill a very dull girl. Wednesday, 31 December 2014. Katie Hopkins and a new year resolution. 8216;Feed the Goat and he will score! 8217; That was what Manchester City fans of a certain vintage used to chant/sing of our legendary striker, Shaun Goater, who banged in 84 goals in 184 appearances for the club. But it occurred to me today that it could equally be said of internet trolls: feed them, and they will score. Starve them, and they will die. I can read tweets and other thin...
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