So I did a rootle through the latest stuff at This Is Why I’m Broke, and came upon these rather classy looking carved wooden maps of cities: The one on the left is London, and sadly, nobody told them that London has been doing a lot of expanding lately, in general, and in particular out … Continue reading Wooden maps of the world’s cities
There were statues to be seen nearby, but there were bigger things, Big Things, further away, on the other side of the River: Photo 1 uses the clutter associated with getting on and off of a boat to frame the Wheel. All the rest are entirely of more distant stuff. I like the colours, warm … Continue reading Big Things across the River
Two IPL games have been happening, both disappointing. That being twenty-overs-plays-twenty-overs cricket, in India. Both games started out with low scores by the teams batting first, followed by relaxed and successful chases by the opposition, and neither contained any English players for me to support. I don’t care which IPL teams do well. I just … Continue reading Big sport day
While channel hopping of an evening, I recently realised that episodes of the television version of Rebus are now being shown again. Having already read most of the books, I have found these Rebus TV adaptations to be frustratingly simplified and compressed. The books are complicated odysseys taking many days, and often weeks or even … Continue reading A techno-prophecy from one of Rebus’s drinking pals
Every so often, a combination of my ever more gargantuan classical CD collection, of my own shifting tastes in classical music, and of my particular life circumstances result in me experiencing musical binges, of various sorts over the years, during which I binge-listen to a particular category of music. Sometimes a binge will focus on … Continue reading Bingeing on Haydn symphonies
Ronald Forbes, for The Conservative Woman: WHY is it that almost every conservative defence of Donald Trump begins by disowning him personally like a distasteful object held at arm’s length? Sure, they say, Trump gave the economy and the job market an electro-shock that Obama said wasn’t possible and didn’t even try, but … Sure, … Continue reading Trump did this good thing, but …
GodDaughter2’s Dad recently sent another photo of their cat Oscar, displaying his lack of any fear of heights: And also, in this case, his desire to keep an eye on other cats in the neighbourhood. Photo taken by GD2D from a nearby balcony. On the left, the original photo that incame. On the right, a … Continue reading Oscar looks down on his neighbours
These disappointments happened in 1870, 1914, 1917, 1940, 1944(?) and 1954. We don’t talk about them in chronological order, because we started with 1914, which was the failed French Ardennes offensive, right at the start of World War 1. But events in all of those years get a mention. Listen to our conversation here, where … Continue reading Patrick Crozier and I talk about French military disappointments (and so does Antoine Clarke)
Via David Thompson, some giant creatures. I like 5, a big snail: And 9, a big rabbit: All hail The Internet. There are fifty photos altogether, but the best ones, I think, are of regular pet type animals or animals we are all familiar with, like the snail and the rabbit. That an oceanic manta … Continue reading Giant creatures
I am aware that, of late, I have been failing to post recently photoed photos here. There’s been stuff from five years ago. from ten years ago, and even from seventeen years ago. I hope it’s been interesting and diverting. But, and especially given how “historic” right now surely is, there’s been a lack of … Continue reading On the boringness of my immediate neighbourhood