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The London Buzz – 2nd August 2024

02-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
The usually unremarkable brick colonnade outside Angel tube station has been temporarily converted into an outdoor photography exhibition that celebrates the business owners of nearby Camden Passage. Islington Tribune
A London rabbi has been charged in Ireland after allegedly performing a circumcision without medical certification. Jewish News
A fire caused by “unsafe” cigarette disposal has destroyed a flat above a shop as

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See the smiling clouds hovering over Covent Garden

02-08-2024 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Covent Garden has been filled with 40 large smiling clouds that hover over the shoppers and diners, but never rains.They’re actually a work of art called “Little Cloud World’ by Los Angeles-based artists, Samuel Borkson & Arturo Sandoval III collectively called FriendsWithYou.
The smiling clouds are cute, as in part of the growing trend for cute icons and images in society, and do look a bit as if they’ve escaped from Super Mario Bros.
The clouds aren’t two-face

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Tickets are on sale for Kew Garden’s winter lights

02-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Yes, a warm summer’s day is the correct time to write that Kew Garden’s annual festive light trail will return this winter.
(c) Kew Gardens
Running since 2013, Kew Gardens is lit up each winter with lights all around the gardens, highlighting the buildings and creating light trails through the trees.
This year’s trail will feature two world premieres, with bespoke new installations on display to visitors for the first time anywhere in the world as part of Christmas at Kew. Ombr

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Thamesmead DLR extension receives broad approval, but funding challenges loom

02-08-2024 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

It’s not the biggest surprise ever, as a consultation into whether the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) should be extended to Thamesmead was widely supported.
After all, if you ask people if they want better public transport, they’re unlikely to say no thanks.
Proposed extension (c) TfL
The consultation did throw up a few interesting comments and alternative ideas for ways of improving local transport. The oft-dismissed suggestion of extending the London Overground kept being suggested,

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Discover the underwater symphony of the Thames at the Natural History Museum

02-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Thames is a noisy river, but it’s been difficult to listen to the sound of the watery landscape below the waves until now. An exhibition at the Natural History Museum allows you to hear the water world inhabited by so many varied animals.The sound installation, The River, is by Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen in collaboration with spatial audio expert Tony Myatt and explores the sound world below the surface of the River Thames using underwater audio recordings in a first-of-its-k

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