My thanks to Facebook and Actual Friend Tim Evans for alerting me to this: It’s Britain’s First Robot Ship. The coolness of that fake-photo is a big reason for this posting, but not the only reason. I am actually interested in robotised transport. For some bizarre reason I found I was able to read the … Continue reading New robot ship
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
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 that is pretending to be a little clutch of separate towers. No one of these towers is … Continue reading The Broadgate Tower … etcetera
I get emails from Google concerning 3D printing. These emails happen daily and each contains links to many reports of 3D printing being done by this or that enterprise. When I first learned about 3D printing, I thought it was a revolutionary technology, one that would “disrupt” all manner of processes and technologies. This was … Continue reading That a manufacturer of something complicated is using 3D printing to make it is not news
Photoed by Martin Cook: Are the tracks so far apart because they’re made by a crop sprayer? This is the countryside, so what do I know? This and three more, bigger, here. And in case you were wondering: Linseed in uk mostly is grown for animal feed, pet food and human consumption. Lot goes to … Continue reading Linseed
On June 2nd, Patrick Crozier and I had another of our recorded conversations, this time about Lockdown. In the course of this, I refer to a photo that I did take, and a photo that I didn’t take. The photo that I did take was this: That being me, and another bloke, recording the fact … Continue reading Lockdown chat with Patrick
Last night I went shopping, and was out for about an hour. In that time, I observed three more e-scooters in action. Three. In the space of an hour. First, on the left below, was the usual. A guy on an e-scooter, scooting past me so quickly I hardly saw him. This time, I did … Continue reading The e-scooter story gets more interesting – in Sainsburys
I have now well and truly caught the Shorpy habit (from Mick Hartley mostly). Usually the photos at Shorpy are of Americans, but these ladies dancing (or just posing?) on a beach are British, although the beach is American: Shorpy calls these ladies a “millipede”, but there are only fifteen of them. Most of them … Continue reading Fifteen dancing ladies in 1923
When I woke up yesterday, I could have sworn it was Friday. And I at once did two things. I checked for an incoming email telling me when a food delivery would happen, which wasn’t there. Odd. And, I did a blog posting about a bird photo. On a Thursday rather than on a Friday, … Continue reading Time tricks
It’s almost the definition of History that you feel you can’t talk, in my case blog about, anything else. But yes, Taxi adverts. I haven’t been going out of my way to photo taxi adverts recently, but when one comes along, I do my best, and as often as not my best is good enough. … Continue reading Taxi adverts!