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Hanging out in Hyde Park
IT’S not surprising that a visit to London’s most central and famous park is in the Timeout London Top 100 at number 53. Even though there are plenty of commons, parks and heaths near where I live I...
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WIN two tickets to Jimeoin at Bloomsbury Theatre
JIMEOIN may have grown up in Northern Ireland, but we still claim him as our own. Having moved to Australia when he was 22, Jimeoin rose to prominence in the early 1990s with his hilarious appearances...
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A trip in time at the London Transport Museum
I’VE got a confession to make – I’m a bit of a Tube nerd. I just love it. Not the squishy smelly boring commute of course, but I am fascinated about how it runs, how it was designed and all those...
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Jimeoin: Love a Byron Bay rave, me. Next stop, UK
28 January 2013 Here in Noosa, Queensland on Australia Day doing my last show before heading to the UK for tour. A lot of flag waving going on here and people trying to be more Australian than they...
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A pint with a past: Top five historical London pubs
COMING from a relatively young country like Australia, it is often hard to comprehend being completely surrounded by the past while drinking in your local watering hole. British culture has...
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Aussie Sarah Kendall at Soho Theatre: Get Up, Stand Up
IN 2004, Kendall became the first comedienne to be nominated for the Perrier Award in almost a decade. She played a major role in shattering the glass ceiling for women comics – and in her first full...
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Somewhere in Somerset House…
MY first experience with Somerset House was in the summertime when I met friends for a Friday night drink on the River Terrace. We sat in the breeze and chatted over a few wines next to the river, on...
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Singing in the rain at the Barbican
LIVING in a city like London, which experiences its fair share of rain each week, it is hard to believe that I would go out and actively seek bad weather on the weekend. However, a new interactive art...
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Sarah Blasko’s Sydney Opera House show live on YouTube
THE Sydney Opera House and YouTube are getting together to broadcast online Sarah Blasko’s performance with the Sydney International Orchestra. Blasko will be performing at the iconic Sydney landmark...
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Ballet brilliance at London’s Royal Opera House
DESPITE its name, the Royal Opera House is not only about Opera. It is also home to the Royal Ballet and, with classics like The Nutcracker showing over the Christmas period, I couldn’t wait to go....
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Lovelorn in London? Fussball + fun on London Eye’s Wheel of Date
DID you know for every single guy in London there are four single girls? You didn’t? It’s probably because we made that statistic up. Really though – did you know there are 53 different online dating...
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21 February 2013 Been on the road in the UK for a week now. Bit of snow which is a big difference from Noosa. Had a weekend in London doing shows and then did Soccer Am at Sky. I met Paul Dickov and...
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Into ‘The Vortex’ at Rose Theatre
Image by Simon Annand DRUGS, sex and scandal. Stephen Unwin’s theatrical revival of The Vortex, the play which made Noël Coward a superstar in 1924, will make you laugh whilst leaving you clinging to...
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The British Library; Look but don’t borrow
I HAVE another confession to make. Not only am I a Tube nerd, I am also a complete bookworm. I have adored visiting libraries since I was young, and I still visit my local library regularly – often...
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Footy in France; AFL Europe scores major sponsor for Euro Cup
THE popularity of Australian Rules in Europe has grown rapidly over the past decade. AFL Europe, the representative body working towards developing and promoting Australian Football in the continent,...
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Incurably curious? Try the Wellcome Collection
THE Wellcome (not a misprint) Collection, number 96 on the Top 100, is advertised as ‘a free destination for the incurably curious’. As someone who has been diagnosed with a serious case of curiosity,...
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What’s on in London for International Women’s Day
Naomi Wolf will be a guest speaker at the Women of the World Festival In London, there are opportunities everyday for women (and men) to connect, learn and broaden their understanding of women in the...
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Attempting Arsenal assimilation
IT IS well-known fact that Australians love their football. We have multiple professional codes of the game, and it is almost a requirement of citizenship to be a die-hard fan of one team or another...
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Southbank’s Got Talent
LOCATED by the river’s edge between Waterloo and London Bridge is the Southbank Centre. My first, and up until recently, my only visit to the Southbank Centre was a couple of years ago when I saw...
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At the fringe: London’s Fringe Theatre scene
Andrew Glen, Alec Parkinson and Jack Cosgrove in Oedipus. Photo by Adam Trigg AS an audience in London’s smaller theatres, it’s sometimes hard to believe that nobody is getting paid. The fringe...
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