Blogs from Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

Hello everyone , well this is the start of the new beginnings , first of all remember I can't spell to save my life and will not have the time for spell check so please remember to use your phonetic dictionary when reading on .......... Ok so far I have been to Tanya , Frazer , Keira & megans house , Dad & Connies , Mum's , Blair Jo zach n Coopers , Angela and Al's , Just about to do a crazy night out in London with Angela , Al , Bo and Sue all the others were away or unavailable but I know what it is like so next time something will happen just I am so Unorganized SORRY !! Here are a few photo's before I head off to Delhi on wed , ... read more

Well everyone easter weekend has passed and Kevin and I went exploring Torquay (Devon). After 8 months of living in the Midlands and not seeing the sea I was missing it terribly and what a fantastic time we had. It was beautiful! the weather was stunning our hotel was over looking the sea and only metres away from the town centre, what more could you ask for? We travelled down on the Friday night arriving late as Kevin had to work most of the day, luckily the traffic wasn't too hectic. Our hotel was on a steep hill right on the edge of a cliff over looking the water... when you walked in the main doors there was a huge chandaler over hanging a large round table with the biggest bunch of flowers. The hallway ... read more

We've bbought the tickets, got the stuff to go in the bags and we leave in a few days Just need to pack up the house... ... read more

Greetings, all! Ten days until liftoff, planned for May 20, and we've created a rough map of our intended destinations, available at the following site: http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_1a8.html Meanwhile we are making art in Devon, having created a Living Sofa out of turf grass and dandelions, and installed a Living Room for Birds, during a treeclimbing performance by Richard. Malaika danced solo with houseplants during her performance of Living Plants, all in collaboration with visiting Chinese artist Liu Ding, who curated an gallery exhibit called "Noah's Living Room" at Dartington. Images of these will hopefully follow soon. Our Living Sofa is catching sunshine and rain daily outside the gallery at Dartington, as well as attracting a number of interested visitors. Daisies, bittercress, sorrel and moss are doing well... the birdhouse is just the right size for a fami ... read more

What do the sounds of melting ice, growing grass and buzzing flies have in common? They're all the internal workings of "Noah's Living Room," the collaborative artist-in-residence gallery exhibition co-curated by Xiaoqian and Liu Ding, Chinese artists at Dartington College of Arts. Huge plastic flies (made from water bottles) flying by hitching lifts on a ceiling fan, a tiny grass hillside festooned with fairy-sized red living room furniture is piled in one corner, and the violets blooming on it are still vibrant. A living turf carpet is greening up the center of the room. A huge cylinder of ice is suspended by chains from the ceiling and is, drip by drip, displacing a field of sand smoothly laid out below it. A bookshelf-full collection of Chinese dynasty histories are slowly turning red as a pool of ... read more