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• Quacky Craze: London’s new chain of Rubber Duck shops

  19-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Something very yellow and very rubber is popping up around London — a chain of shops that sells just one thing – rubber ducks.You’ve seen them in gift shops before, the curiously caricatured ducks that manage to look a bit like famous people who have had bad lip surgery, through to duck-shaped buildings and or even ducky vehicles. At first glance, they look cheesy and awful, yet, as any museum shop buyer will tell you, they sell in huge quantities. People like the combination o
  
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• Dulwich Picture Gallery’s first-ever UK exhibition of Yoshida dynasty’s master prints

  19-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The UK’s first-ever exhibition devoted to a dynasty of master print artists has opened in a site-specific room specially created for the exhibition. The Yoshida family, starting with Yoshida Hiroshi (Hiroshi Yoshida in the Western name order), are considered some of the greatest 20th-century Japanese artists but are little known outside Japan.As part of the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s ongoing programme of championing an artist or genre, they’ve brought together works from three g
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Radnor Gardens, TW1

  19-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a large park next to the Thames in Strawberry Hill that was once mostly an island in the Thames. It also offers one of the few riverside paths open to the public between Twickenham and Kingston Bridge.About half of the public garden is made up of several private gardens that used to back onto the Thames from grand houses, but at the turn of the 20th century, Twickenham Urban District started buying some of the houses to open up the land for the public.
  However, the private gardens only c
  
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