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Signs reflected in cars (and other things (like water))
One of the unconsidered visual trifles of urban life is the reflections you can, if you want to, see in the bodies of cars. Reflections like this: It’s one of these. Here are some reflections-in-cars...
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Wooden sheep out east
So there I was, out east, exploring what was happening to the canals in the Bow, Hackney Wick part of London, photoing photos like this, …: When, rather suddenly, I came upon this: All that grubbing...
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John Wesley statue outside St Paul’s
I do love statue-photoing but I admit that it has been very hit-and-miss. This, however, by my modest standards, I rate as a hit: That’s John Wesley. He was, or so it says on the base of the statue,...
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Merry Christmas – no sarcasm intended
On Christmas Day and the days surrounding it, my trickle of readers becomes even less of a trickle than usual, so the chances are that you are reading this posting, if at all, not on Christmas day...
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Happy not brand New Year but Happy New Year anyway
On Jan 1st 2021, I was obsessing about routers, and not giving any thought to whether any of you readers were having a Happy New Year. Yesterday, there was the same preoccupation with my own concerns...
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Quiet the mind?
In March of 2020, I journeyed to Battersea, to check out progress in all the new Machines For Living In that they were building in those parts. Frank Gehry, who specialises in the architecturally...
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EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT again – and its reflection
Ever since doing this posting, I have had that photo up on my computer screen, and I remain very fond of it. Here are two more photos of that same piece of art/signage, photoed around the same time,...
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Being offensive is not an offence and a public falsehood about the content of...
This: I, and many others, found this sign very offensive. Which means that it was “being offensive” and it broke its own rule. Some of those many others complained and Merseyside Police retreated:...
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Gas works before lockdown ends?
I did quite a bit of writing today, but none of it for here, today. So, quota photo time, and again, it’s photoed in the well-lit dark with my Samsung Galaxy A40 mobile phone. I don’t know if gas work...
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Architectural modernism: Its triumph indoors and its battle out of doors
Today I was at the Royal Marsden, having a scan in a device that looked like this: In other words it looked like a time travel portal in a rather bad movie. That photo’s a bit blurry, but they only...
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Email problems: EIG2BA
I am suffering email problems just now. I can send them, but I can’t receive them. As of now, I am relying on The Guru to ensure that …: … which it surely will, eventually. Meanwhile, the only other...
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Just wandering around in London noticing stuff
Ah happy days, of the sort I spend just wandering about in London, photoing whatever I see that seems amusing, in whatever seem like amusing ways: But sadly, these photos were not photoed today or...
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The Royal Marsden and its money
One of the things Patrick Crozier and I talked about in our latest Recorded Conversation is how the Royal Marsden Hospital is more mixed economy than pure NHS. It supplies services to the NHS, but is...
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I spent today postponing but mostly organising my death
I have spent my day doing two important things. First, and this only took a moment, I swallowed an Osimertinib pill. I take one of these pills every day. How hard is that? Harder than you might...
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Another SF movie gadget at the Marsden
Yes, yet another big gadget in the Royal Marsden (see also this amazing piece of kit) that makes you think you are in a science fiction movie: I photoed this photo quite a while back now. What, I...
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Backstage architecture
A big part of my life now is my visits to the Royal Marsden Hospital on the Fulham Road. I’m talking about this building: I show the above photo of the Marsden here. again, because I want now to draw...
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Bartok (again) – Mozart – Chopin – Purcell
My journeys to the Marsden are now regularly taking me to South Kensington tube, where this elegant gentleman is to be seen, looking particularly fine during a sunny spell, of which there have recently...
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Dutch Quality Flowers lorry with antique locomotive
This afternoon, while I was on my way yet again to the Royal Marsden to score my next month’s supply of Osimertinib, a huge lorry drove past me along the Fulham Road, with a painting of a steam...
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Will Groundhog Day stop happening tomorrow?
I haven’t tortured myself by following the details, but am I correct in supposing that tomorrow, things will start to open up again? Here are some photos I photoed of the front of the Old Vic Theatre,...
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A walkabout five years ago
I am awaiting warmer weather, in the hope that I will then feel up to taking a photo-walkabout, somewhere in London town. Meanwhile here are some photos from a walkabout I did, walking (about) from the...
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