#sunday projects

I've been collecting my theatre/concert tickets for the past year and I finally got around to putting them up rather than keeping them squished in a box with all my letters. I don't know what happened to my "Everybody's Talking About Jamie" ticket but it's not here 😭 Apparently I'm a book and ticket collecting kind of person. I like keeping a record of stuff I've seen.

Pictured are tickets for:

Violin+piano concert (Wigmore Hall)

"The Unknown Soldier/Infra/Symphony in C" (ROH)

Handel's "Messiah" (Southbank Centre- which I sang in!)

"The Nutcracker" (ROH)

"Romeo and Juliet" (Theatre Royal, Nottingham)

"Cosi fan tutte" (ROH)

"A Tale of Darkness to Light"- Mozart and Mahler (Southbank Centre)

Nicholas Daniel oboe concert (Wigmore Hall)

4x BBC Proms tickets (Royal Albert Hall)

"Don Giovanni" (ROH)

Sunday Projects: Hammer Restoration

One post series I'm planning to feature on this blog follows various Sunday projects related to repairing, restructuring, or improving the things we use every day to make them last longer. This hammer, once owned by my late grandfather, who was a master carpenter, has suffered some ill effects of time.

Damaged in a basement flood, this hammer, with it's rich family history and handsome patina, deserved better than the rust it wears in the left photo. Restoring tools is fairly easy, and only took me a few hours.