Articles tagged ‘celebration’

Australia Day

By Chris | January 25th, 2008 | Add a Comment »

Tomorrow 26 January is Australia Day and Australian expats all over London will be out celebrating their country’s national day. It commemorates the founding of the first British settlement in Australia with the building of the penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788.
London has a whole bunch of pubs and bars with a distinctly Aussie [...]

 

Becks on canvas sells fast in London

By Chris | December 20th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

An artist called Sacha Jafri has painted a large picture that he says represents the life of David Beckham. He’s called it The Celebration and it was auctioned off at the Ministry of Sound in London last night, going to a mystery buyer (Posh Spice maybe?) who forked out £125,000 for it.