london – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:55:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg london – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 London Town #StJames #Picadilly #London https://shepline.com/2020/01/04/london-townstjames-picadilly-london/ https://shepline.com/2020/01/04/london-townstjames-picadilly-london/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:53:22 +0000 http://shepline.com/2020/01/04/london-townstjames-picadilly-london/ London Town #StJames #Picadilly #London

London Town #StJames #Picadilly #London

London Town
#StJames #Picadilly #London

]]> https://shepline.com/2020/01/04/london-townstjames-picadilly-london/feed/ 0 Took myself off to London today to satisfy my love of #EdwardArdizzone to see this year’s #TheIllustrators exhibition before it closed. Had a good chat with Chris Beetle too – thanks for the cup of tea too! #illustration #BookIllustration #London #StJames #Picadilly @chrisbeetlesgallery https://shepline.com/2020/01/04/took-myself-off-to-london-today-to-satisfy-my-love-of-edwardardizzone-to-see-this-years-theillustrators-exhibition-before-it-closed-had-a-good-chat-with-chris-beetle-too-thanks-for-the-cup-of-t/ https://shepline.com/2020/01/04/took-myself-off-to-london-today-to-satisfy-my-love-of-edwardardizzone-to-see-this-years-theillustrators-exhibition-before-it-closed-had-a-good-chat-with-chris-beetle-too-thanks-for-the-cup-of-t/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:35:35 +0000 http://shepline.com/2020/01/04/took-myself-off-to-london-today-to-satisfy-my-love-of-edwardardizzone-to-see-this-years-theillustrators-exhibition-before-it-closed-had-a-good-chat-with-chris-beetle-too-thanks-for-the-cup-of-t/ Took myself off to London today to satisfy my love of #EdwardArdizzone to see this year's #TheIllustrators exhibition before it closed. Had a good chat with Chris Beetle too - thanks for the cup of tea too! #illustration #BookIllustration #London #StJames #Picadilly @chrisbeetlesgallery

Took myself off to London today to satisfy my love of #EdwardArdizzone to see this year's #TheIllustrators exhibition before it closed. Had a good chat with Chris Beetle too - thanks for the cup of tea too! #illustration #BookIllustration #London #StJames #Picadilly @chrisbeetlesgallery

Took myself off to London today to satisfy my love of #EdwardArdizzone to see this year’s #TheIllustrators exhibition before it closed. Had a good chat with Chris Beetle too – thanks for the cup of tea too!
#illustration #BookIllustration #London #StJames #Picadilly @chrisbeetlesgallery

]]> https://shepline.com/2020/01/04/took-myself-off-to-london-today-to-satisfy-my-love-of-edwardardizzone-to-see-this-years-theillustrators-exhibition-before-it-closed-had-a-good-chat-with-chris-beetle-too-thanks-for-the-cup-of-t/feed/ 0 A Day in London Town https://shepline.com/2012/02/28/a-day-in-london-town/ https://shepline.com/2012/02/28/a-day-in-london-town/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:23:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=2039 So, I had a away day into London Town today – let out for good behaviour if you will. I was attending the Technology For Marketing & Advertising trade fair at Earl’s Court. It’s a slightly odd fit for me as it was mainly geared for the hardcore marketeers and the folk manning the stands were mainly only interested if you were a budget holder with a remit to buy into their product within 3 months, but there were some interesting seminars and lectures to be had around social media.

One of the problems that we face at work is actually getting students, staff, potential students… to engage with our twitter feed and our facebook accounts or have anyone to comment on our news stories other than spammers. So its the engagement bit that I’m interested in. After listening to a lot being said about social networking I think that I’m of the conclusion that that may well be one of the great unanswered questions. People who have it working well will tell you how great it is, and they will give you case studies over what you should and shouldn’t be doing based on their experience in their field. Asked what you should be doing in your field and they can’t help you. It’s clearly not an exact science.

What is clear is that, by far, the majority of people use the internet for learning, fun, and to socialise and that’s the same on mobile devices too. So to get with the engagement, and have people enjoying being around our social networking and our blogs and our website (and buying our products or studying at our univerAsity) I think we have to go against what our company bosses might think and give them the fun, and hope that when they decide what we can offer them, they remember our good name and come a-running.

I am tired after my day in London though. It’s nice but I couldn’t live there. It tires me, and come home feeling grubby and headachey. That said, I do like Baker Street station, all the old stonework the window shafts cut into tunnels, the decorative woodwork and the carved statues and the old Victorian tiles. Got to be one of my favourite stations.

I also saw a vision of the publishing future on the tube today. A girl who obviously works in publishing was reading PARIS IN LOVE – SECOND PASS PAGES, which I take it to mean the second pass proofs of a book on her kindle. Tonight I looked up the book on Amazon: an as yet unpublished book available to preorder.

Damn it, the girl worked for Random House! I should have got talking to her and made a contact to get my own book published…?!? *grins*

]]> https://shepline.com/2012/02/28/a-day-in-london-town/feed/ 0 On the ninth day of advent: skating on and falling down https://shepline.com/2007/12/09/on-the-ninth-day-of-advent-skating-on-and-falling-down-2/ https://shepline.com/2007/12/09/on-the-ninth-day-of-advent-skating-on-and-falling-down-2/#respond Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:43:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/on-the-ninth-day-of-advent-skating-on-and-falling-down-2/ Emma got up early this morning to go to Tesco; whilst I secreted a christmas card for her in the house for her to find later (not much later, as her eagle-eyes are keen), and began work on my christmas card list. The weather did brighten up slightly but quickly decended into a wintery gloom suitable only for hibernation. It was a very hibernating sort of day.

After an early lea (*see entry dated 8 December) we headed out through a lowering sky with large black birds gathering in the sky with the skeletal frames of tree sihouetted against the rain, and onto the M4 into London. And so after a while we arrived at the Natural History Museum and met up with Sue and Steve and Debbie and Matt for ice skating. To say that I was nervous would be an understatement. I was terrified. The only other time that I have been ice skating was 29 years ago, when I was five and holding my mummy’s hand on pond in New York state…



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…it was great fun though! Yes, I fell over three times, but I didn’t do myself any injuries, and I went on to do four unaided circuits of the rink. Okay, so I wasn’t the most graceful creature on the ice, but I did it! When we walked past again later in the evening on our way back to the car, I just wanted to get out there again and have another go! 🙂
]]> https://shepline.com/2007/12/09/on-the-ninth-day-of-advent-skating-on-and-falling-down-2/feed/ 0 Come with me. To the Emerald City. https://shepline.com/2007/02/24/come-with-me-to-the-emerald-city-2/ https://shepline.com/2007/02/24/come-with-me-to-the-emerald-city-2/#respond Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:59:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/come-with-me-to-the-emerald-city-2/ Took the coach to London this evening – c/o of works social committee – to see Wicked. Arriving in the West End, we disembarked from the bus to find the Apollo Victoria very obvious, lit up in it’s irridescent green lights. The stage was designed around the clockwork workings of Oz, and the the production values excellent, and magical, and wicked!

Kerry Ellis’ Elphaba – the wicked witch of the west – was incredible with, by far the best voice on the stage. She stole the show. The music was truly outstanding when it was good, but I did find that it was quite the entire whole package that some musicals are. Far from the prequel that Wickedis often described as, it started off as a a prequel but then worked through the duration of The Wizard of Oz, ending after that story, with a twist… 😉

A great evening!

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