We haven’t been to a cafe for quite some time now and after a 113-day drought here we are at Little Goodies Cafe at Sunnynook. The reason for us not going to cafes recently is because of the harsh weather it has been raining a lot from October up until...
1/12 Girrahween Drive, Totara Vale. Property listing ID: 838655. After several offers the owner is now prepared to meet the market. This is spacious and versatile, elevated Brick and Tile home in a popular central North Shore location benefits from lot...
As Alberta’s energy companies struggle through a prolonged bout of low prices, more and more are walking away from their oil and gas wells, leaving a little-known industry group to clean up the mess.
Close Encounters - Edward Gorey American 1925-2000
607 East Coast Road, Browns Bay. Property listing ID: 864814. Nestled within a private laneway, in an elevated position high and dry with ocean views, this surprisingly large residence exudes warmth, natural light and versatility. More than meets the...
Yet another Korean Fried Chicken! Yes, it’s like the bubble tea’s they are infiltrating Auckland food scene but for good. We had tried many Korean Fried Chicken places in Auckland, so much I can’t count how many of them we visited and our latest one was from Mad for Chicken in...
The Great Los Angeles River CleaUp hosted 3000 volunteers who pulled 22 tons of trash out of the river by hand -- waste equal to the weight of 11 automobiles.
The new park joins several other parks and parklets that have opened along the river in recent years.
Simon Quadrat was born in London in 1946, his parents having fled Nazi Germany prior to World War II. Like his mother, Quadrat is a classical pianist. He obtained a law degree at Bristol University in 1967 and was called to the Bar in 1969. He was a Member of the Inner Temple until 1985, from 1985 to 2000 in chambers in Bristol. His practice was entirely criminal and he appeared regularly at the Old Bailey, then on the Western Circuit. Quadrat had always painted and by 2000 resolved to do so full time. He completed the three month foundation course at the Slade Summer School with teachers including Jo and Nick Volley and Nathan Cohen. Apart from that he had no formal training, although from his schooldays he looked at and read about all schools of art “from the early Renaissance to modern abstract art. What fires me is real painting – Piero della Francesca, Velasquez, Manet and Kiebenkorn, to name but a few of my influences. My main themes are still life painting and urban, often industrial landscapes, based on occasional sketches, memory or imagination. These are rooted in my interest in the so called metaphysical possibilities of still life, art of the ‘50s and my own memories of childhood.” From 2000 to 2002 Quadrat took part in mixed shows in the Bristol area, in 2001 winning the Institute of Directors Prize at the Royal West of England Academy. In 2003 he was one of four painters in a still-life show at Lynne Strover Gallery, Fen Ditton with a successful solo exhibition with JHW Fine Art at Gallery 27, another in 2005. Further one-man exhibitions took place in 2004 with Lynne Strover and at Six Chapel Row, Bath and Quadrat’s pictures were included in a mixed show at Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester and at the Russell Gallery. http://www.strovergallery.co.uk/artist/simon-quadrat http://www.barrykeenegallery.co.uk/QUADRAT%20Simon%202.htm http://www.panterandhall.com/Simon-Quadrat-All-Pictures.aspx
Recently we discovered this hidden gem located in North Shore tucked hidden in Sunnynook’s Highview Court, the name Chulongji. We learned this place after I asked my daughter to look for something new to try, it was nearly dinner time and we were quite busy doing some household stuff, so...
A subversive Victorian-tinted infusion of romantic realism.
The new park joins several other parks and parklets that have opened along the river in recent years.
Sunnynook is a four-bedroom 1950s modernised abode in the village of Bigbury-on-Sea, overlooking Burgh Island, where Agatha Christie set some of her most popular novels.
