The Alexandra Duo

Need classical music for your wedding, civil ceremony or special event? Then check out the Alexandra Duo website!

The English choral tradition

It turns out Magdalen et al have been wasting their time over the years - the English choral tradition is, in fact, maintained by Highgate School (according to this display in a Highgate pub). What a choir it must be, to be able to broadcast our national heritage in an entire musical genre, and all across Europe at that.

Huge basement...

... or so this shop in Oxford must have, if its sign is to be believed. Who would have thought that one establishment could literally house the entire internet?

"Where's my soul gone?"

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Originally uploaded by ambroseneville.

You may well ask.

Images of a rapidly-aging Zoë Ball and Graham Norton are the scourge of the Underground right now.

The decline of rail travel

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Originally uploaded by ambroseneville.

We've received our first ever submission to Kitchen Stairs, courtesy of Richard Dixon. Apparently he didn't take the photo himself, so only partial credit, but we enjoyed this anyway.

You can't escape the dangers of modern life

When I returned to Devon for a quiet family Christmas I was hoping to escape the many hazards that you have to negotiate living in the city.

Little did I know that danger lurks around every corner...

Pure genius

Whilst enjoying a fine meal at one of the UK's more popular food chains, my good friend Nick snapped a picture of this sign. Clearly one of the less well advertised perks of working in the wardrobe department of a professional theatre company...

More hard news

More hard news from the Muswell Hill area...