Towers continue to soar upwards into the blue sky of London town: But now, with The Plague, Lockdown, social distancing, blah blah, do cities have a future? Does London have a future? Here’s detail of the tower on the right in the above photo, photoed by me a few days later on a much gloomier … Continue reading How London is about to copy Notting Hill
I tried picking out bits of the recently penned essay by Anton Howes entitled The Agglomerationists, but it contains nothing I am willing to omit. Almost every sentence is something I find myself wanting to think about, out loud, here. Obliged quickly to name a single summary of what this blog of mine is all … Continue reading Anton Howes on the Agglomerationists
There are seven of them, and they are bright red. Here are fourteen photos (two of each) that I photoed in November 2018. The weather was grim, making everything else look decidedly monochrome by comparison: Which I think worked rather well to show how these bright red objects brighten up a part of London still … Continue reading Jeppe Hein’s red seat sculptures outside the Royal Festival Hall
This afternoon an electric scooter and its rider went past me and immediately turned a corner. I had no camera on me, but I scuttled after it anyway, to check that it really was electric. This is because electric scooters are so compact that the only way you can tell for sure that they’re electric … Continue reading Another e-scooter sighting – and a couple of e-scooter quotes
Today, Patrick Crozier and I at last got around to doing the recorded conversation we failed to do earlier. About the Allied WW2 bombing offensive. We did it down the phone rather than face-to-face, and doing it down the phone, what with the phone now being such an antiquated piece of kit, was what had … Continue reading A recorded conversation by phone
What do you reckon on this?: It’s a big Shipwreck Thing that some people are trying to build in Prague. My first reaction, when I first set eyes on the above fake photo last night, was horror. But now that I have had time to live with this notion, I find myself quite liking it, … Continue reading Prague should build this shipwreck!
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 equipment, tourist crap with no soldiers or royal family (just Art), amazing plants (including little wine trees with mountains behind them), boats galore, and … Continue reading A year ago today …
“Natoor” because the word is “Nature”, but in French. Ever since I did a post here mentioning the plan for a Disneyland London, Twitter has been regularly Twittering me a picture of this new Disneyland building in Paris: “Stay at Les Vlllages Nature.” I like the look from above of this Thing, and I especially … Continue reading Natoor?
When I say exploring, I mean three kinds of exploring, rather than just the one. The “just the one” is going there, and taking photos. But the second is finding things out from the Internet about the various things I saw and photoed. And the third is exploring my photo-archives for related photos that I … Continue reading Exploring The City: Monument thoughts
This from the American Spectator seems to me to be saying something rather true: It is easy to be cynical. We might dismiss these photos as brazen self-promotion or a symptom of millennial self-absorption. Headlines like “Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie” and “Instagramming Millennials Are Burying the World in Food Waste” capture the … Continue reading Food photos as prayers of gratitude