Laura Davis

Jan 11, 2025 | stored-honey.com | Laura Davis

It’s one of those weeks where it’s hard to believe there is ever a day when you can can go out without a jumper, big coat and numerous woollies. When the very idea of a summer’s day seems like something you dreamt or once read about but have never actually experienced in real life. This is Stored Honey, a weekly arts and culture magazine covering England’s North West.

Jan 4, 2025 | stored-honey.com | Laura Davis

I first encountered David Hockney’s work at university - not in a lecture hall or textbook - but at the Centre Pompidou during a year I spent as a language assistant in France. The first part of it was a lonely seven months of living in a tiny town with only 2,000 residents, a handful of streets and a bus timetable that didn’t allow enough time between the one that left and the one that returned to spend more than 90 minutes in the nearby, larger town.

Jan 2, 2025 | stored-honey.com | Laura Davis

A new year has begun and with it comes the pressure to start planning how you’ll spend your time, money and effort in the 12 months to come. One of the things I like about January - I’m not one of those winter-haters - is that it starts the year off slowly. If you follow nature rather than Instagram as your guide then you can fully justify unhurriedly poking your nose out of your post-Christmas burrow rather than bouncing Tigger-like straight into a packed calendar of events.

Dec 14, 2024 | stored-honey.com | Laura Davis

You know that thing where you learn something new and then the same fact keeps cropping up everywhere? I experienced this at the University of Liverpool’s Tung Auditorium this week when listening to the Chamber and UNIty choirs perform their Northern Lights lunchtime concert. This is Stored Honey, a weekly arts and culture magazine covering England’s North West.

Dec 7, 2024 | stored-honey.com | Laura Davis

Despite how festive my life has been over the past few weeks, Stored Honey has been relatively Christmas-free (apart from this review of the Everyman’s Rock ’n’ roll panto). But it’s time for the seasonal spirit to spill over from my private life into this week’s edition, which features an interview about a theatre show that’s helping make elderly people’s December a little bit less lonely. It’s a wonderful idea, which you can support by backing the crowdfunder - more on that below.