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Signs in Seattle
Here: I agree with what Matthew Continetti says in this piece, which the above photo adorns, that this is froth. History as farce, Tom Wolf style. This “Seattle Soviet” is going nowhere. It’s “signs...
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Abney Park
Recently I was in the general vicinity of Lambeth, Stoke Newington, that sort of part of London, seeing things like a lion statue. But that lion was nothing to what came later. Which was this: This...
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Sampson House and Ludgate House
Before everything went arse over tits up in the air into the melting pot and threw a spanner out of the frying pan into the pigeons, they were talking about a new London Thing Cluster, to go here: Here...
View ArticleThe Screen of the Red Death has gone away
For the time being, anyway. Earlier in the month, I reported that any attempt to access the Old Blog would get you to The Screen of the Red Death. Well, the good news is that The Screen of the Red...
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Thumbnails for a Remainer demo
I have been struggling with posting “thumbnails” here. Thumbnails are small photos, which if clicked on, result in us viewing a different and bigger photo, of which the thumbnail was only a smaller...
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John Duffin painting on Blackfriars Bridge ten years ago
Ten years plus a few days ago, I was checking out the work that was beginning to be done making the new BlackFriars Bridge railway station. And today, I checked out the resulting photos, Here are six...
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Cat in Istanbul shop window
As not promised (see below), here’s a rather charming photo that Michael Jennings took in Istanbul last December, of a shop window: Not just signs, but the place where they’re done from. And a cat. I...
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First photos with the FX150
I can still remember the Great Leap Forward that the Panasonic Lumix FZ150 “bridge” camera was. For me if not for all of photoer-kind. For me, the best “bridge camera” I could have was my perfect...
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An England v West Indies memory – at least I got how the stumps looked...
Tomorrow, assuming I have it right, a test match begins between England and the West Indies, in Southampton. There’ll be no spectators, but they’ve all played either English county cricket or whatever...
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Der Bomber
The things you find in your photo-archives, if you are someone like me and you forget two thirds of what you’ve photoed as soon as you’ve photoed it. This bloke, for instance, whom I photoed somewhere...
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A giant pink flamingo now presides over London
On the same photo-walk that I photoed the Red Lion (see immediately belw) I also came upon this: And I got a hell of a shock, I can tell you. I am fond of graphic representations of London’s ever more...
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A year ago today … cake!
This, believe it or not, was a cake: A year ago today, England beat New Zealand in the Cricket World Cup Final at Lord’s, by absolutely no runs whatsoever. I gave this event my full attention at the...
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Weird transport contraption
I do like the word “contraption”. Contraption. And this is definitely a particularly contraptional contraption: I had this lined up to go in this earlier posting, but for some reason I neglected it at...
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A power station and a young cat
I am doing a lot of photo-reminiscing here, aren’t I? Partly it’s You Know What discouraging me from going out, but partly it’s because I’m not feeling one hundred per cent just now, and that seems to...
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Boris Johnson at Lord’s on July 17th 2006
Indeed. On that day, for the final day of this game between England and Pakistan, I was at Lord’s, photoing photos like this: You can see what I was trying for there. A nice uninterrupted photo of that...
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Photoers and birds in Trafalgar Square
Liking, as I so definitely do, those temporary moments in the ongoing pageant that is London’s variegated history, I remember fondly the time when Trafalgar Square sported a big blue cock: My version...
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Poetry on the South Bank
Last summer, when wandering about where those Modified Social Benches are to be found, in the vicinity of the Royal Festival Hall, I happened to look downwards and I encountered, beneath my feet, this...
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The Broadgate Tower … etcetera
The Broadgate Tower, because I like it. This particular City of London Big Thing is in a slightly different style to the more celebrated Big Things just to its south, in that it is one of those towers...
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Antisocial Benches
Remember Jeppe Hein’s red seat sculptures outside the Royal Festival Hall. Well, when I went back there, in early May of this year, when Lockdown was getting started, to see how the red seats looked in...
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My neighbourhood – not that bad after all
Well I was in a grumpy mood the other day, calling my part of London boring. Today, after a bit of an absence from it, indoors, I visited my neighbourhood again, and found myself, eventually, to be in...
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