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Churchill War Rooms gallery
One of the nice things about people coming to stay is that you often find yourself visiting touristy but interesting things that you’d never quite get around to seeing on your own. Later, maybe, but...
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I We It – January 2004
All this coughing I’ve been doing lately, and the consequent not sleeping properly, is keeping me confined to my quarters, which means that photo-ops have been few. So, I’ve done more than my usual...
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If ever a sign needed a vocative comma …
That’s what Newcastle language teacher Mike Metcalf tweeted about the sign in this photo: Quite right. Are we Satan’s Brainwashed Cattle? And must we wake up? Or are we supposed to wake up a flock of...
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A selection of 2019 newspaper headlines
I find that newspaper headlines, photoed in such places as shops from which I purchase other goods but not newspapers, can make pleasingly evocative souvenirs, as time goes by. Things that loomed large...
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On how we love animals (except when we love how they taste)
While in France, I read the whole of The Square and the Tower, and then embarked upon The Ape that Understood the Universe. In the latter book, the matter of how humans get all sentimental about...
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Those Frenchies do love their motorbikes
Yes they do. Here are some I photoed on my recent trip to their country: And here is a particularly interesting motorbike specimen, which I spotted inside a shop in Perpignan: You see what they did...
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KC Gandhi squeak a win
Churchy just tweeted this: He doesn’t say where he found it. Having got to a thousand, Dhanawade then wanted to dig in and make it a big thousand. But he was cruelly cut short, just as he was getting...
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Join the Police and get yourself nicer eyelashes
Earlier in the week, GodDaughter2 was out West, doing an audition (successfully as it turned out), and afterwards we met up. After dining, we visited the nearby Westfield shopping centre, and while she...
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They’re about to dig up the road
Another quota photo, because: another busy day. I may have time later to do something for here, but don’t want to have to be bothering about this. So: Again, photoed quite recently. Well, this year....
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Trees and other Things
I’ve not being doing much out-and-abouting lately. But yesterday the weather looked good and I managed a photo-expedition. My odyssey was a familiar one. I walked past the Channel 4 TV headquarters...
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40 Strand
Alastair wondered, in a comment, what this building is, as had I. Today, the weather looked good again, and having nowhere in particular to go, I thought I’d do what I hadn’t done earlier, which was...
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Photos are back!
Or it looks that way. Here’s one I took in 2007 under a London railway bridge, somewhere: Appropriate now, I think you’ll agree. I’ve included “Art” in the categories list below. Since there seems to...
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Red carpet photos
Exactly a week ago, I spent my last day before You Know What erupted all over us, wandering around London, before attending an amazing chamber music concert at the Wigmore Hall. During these...
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At the top of the Walkie Talkie
In January 2016, I and a friend visited the top of the Walkie Talkie. And in April 2016, I posted one of the photos I took during that visit, the third of these three Walkie Talkie photos. Somewhat...
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A year ago today …
I was in St Cyprien, in the extreme south of France, staying with my extreme south of France friends (aka GodDaughter2’s family). Roof clutter ancient and modern, wires, orange tiles, fishing...
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Perpignan photos
A year ago yesterday I was in St Cyprien, and a year ago today I was in Perpignan. However, I was in Perpignan again on January 9th of this year, when the weather was much better and hence so were my...
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Le bar à chats in Perpignan
As already much mentioned this week, I was in the south of France exactly a year ago, and as also already mentioned, exactly a year ago yesterday, I and various members of GodDaughter2’s family,...
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An elephant on top of a bird
It’s still Friday, right? So, an elephant: Photoed by me in March of 2016. (I’m doing a lot of rootling in the archives just now.) The next photo is even less technically accomplished, but it does show...
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Hong Kong Demo – London – January 19th 2020
The Chinese government has been taking advantage lately of the fact that there is now only one media story, and is now crunching down on Hong Kong. Because now, this isn’t much of a story, compared to...
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Cycling out of Lockdown
Last Sunday, the gloriously sunny day when I photoed this reflection photo, I also photoed many other photos, as I walked to and around Parliament Square, and then along the River to Lambeth Bridge and...
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