Article Archive for 8 October 2010
[ September 12, 2010 9:00 am to October 4, 2010 6:00 pm. ] During September professional contemporary artists open their studios to the public. This is a unique chance to meet artists, to discover how and where they produce their work and buy from them directly.Visit a studio near you!,Web: www.artistsatwork.org.uk/
[ June 1, 2010 9:00 am to October 1, 2010 6:00 pm. ] Explore inside the Rows stores and help unravel their mysterious past. You will be taken to a part of the city that’s rich in hush-hush history and a tea shop where high tea is definitely on the menu!These tours will give you a much closer look at the city’s unique treasures than ever before [...]
[ September 9, 2010 9:00 am to September 18, 2010 6:00 pm. ] An amateur performance by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. Directed by Gail Young, this wonderfully funny yet very moving play tells the story of a shy, reclusive girl named Little Voice, who lives with her larger than life mother Mari. Missing her dead father, Little Voice spends her time locked in her bedroom listening to [...]
You may have seen pictures and read about the new design of some airline seats. The Daily Mail and the Telegraph both carried stories about this strange seat where the pitch (the gap between the back of one seat and the back of the one in front) is just 23 inches. This is about 6 inches less than is available on most no-frills airlines. The seat is like a saddle and you perch on it with your legs pointing down as opposed to a normal sitting position. Called the SkyRider it is Italian designed (well here’s one Italian design disaster for a start) and the suggestion is that would enable no-frills airlines to pack even more passengers in.
It isn’t going to happen.
[ September 14, 2010 to September 18, 2010. ] An ancient custom that’s only found in or around the borders of Derbyshire. Well dressing might date back to the Celts, or perhaps even earlier, but what exactly is it’ At its simplest, well dressing is the art of decorating springs and wells with pictures made from growing things. But this doesn’t explain how well [...]


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