The Plough was a spacious, if rather cold venue, to be visited again only when the weather gets warmer. Two new faces: Jenny Myddleton is a writer in the travel industry, who has contributed to Dorling Kindersley titles and publications for Journey Latin America, and Max Holloway, a fine-art trained designer back from a stint with HSBC in The Philippines, which, he pointed out, was a perilous place for journalists (you may recall the massacre of 12 reporters on their way to cover elections on the island of Mindanao last November). Max is hoping to start up a design business with his wife. It turned out that Gillian Cargill of Light Monkey had taken photographs of their wedding some four years ago. Gillian came with the Oglander Road “media-ocrity”, as Mrs Christopher Clack would have it (dare she show her face after such a vile jibe?), Chris Clack with Ronnie and Anne Reckless who was on painkillers after cracking a rib in a bathroom incident. Anne, a frequent visitor to Israel-Palestine, has just secured an interview with a “key player in creative projects in the region that are bringing both sides of the conflict together”. Louise Murray, preparing to encounter giant squids, recommended website Travel Photography of the Year.
Alyse Dar said things were busy at Insight Guides, with two new series, which is good news. Maggie Richards has just secured a writing contract with an AOL blog to contribute mind/body/spirit posts, an outlet that sounds like it has possibilities (is she really going to Denmark?). Angie MacDonald said that Dulwich-on-View had a good response to their Paul Nash Art Competition, inviting people to send in samples based on the painter’s work. Nigel Soper, who designed the exhibition catalogue (shown above), was astonished at the power of the internet in researching the remaking of a cover (left) for a special-edition Quiet Sun CD (see Wikipedia), for which he was asked to tell the story of his original LP design.
• April 27 Dulwich Paradiso is putting on an evening of short films (up to 12 minutes) at the Mag to show to “a friendly audience of around 80 local people”; entries to be in by March 12. info@paradisofilm.co.uk
• Pub news: Owners of the Bishop pub in Lordship Lane have taken over the Wishing Well in Bellenden Road and Uplands in North Cross Road, both possible future venues.
• The next Groucho-on-the-Rye will be at The Rye Hotel, 31 Peckham Rye, SE15 3NX on Tuesday, March 9.
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