I was rootling around in the archives for something interesting, and this time I really went back, to the time of my very first digital camera. And in among lots of photos of my friends and GodDaughters all looking eighteen years younger, I found this photo, taken while on a trip around the Wheel, of … Continue reading The Guy’s Hospital Tower in 2000
When you go by train to Quimper from London, you start by going by Eurostar to the Gare du Nord in Paris. And when you step outside the main entrance of the Gare du Nord, you find yourself next to a big red bear with wings. Although I noticed this big red bear with wings … Continue reading Angel Bear outside the Gare du Nord
The pattern with all my best photo-expeditions is that there is an Official Designated Destination, and then there is all the other stuff I get to discover. The principle purpose of the ODD is to get me out of my snug little home and into the big wide world that is Outdoors, to see both … Continue reading I came for bridges but mostly what I got was leaves
I remember when the internet was nice. My part of it, the blogosphere, was nice, anyway. Every blogger, no matter what he thought about things, was a comrade. Every commenter, ditto. In those magic few years from about 2001 until about 2008 at the latest, when a whole generation of people the world over found … Continue reading The internet is no longer a nice place
Yes, panic over. The situation seemed very bad, but instead is as described above. Consider this photo, of the roof of the long snakey shed that looks like it’s for growing tomatoes, where the Euro-trains used to arrive and depart from: I was viewing that in Windows Photo Viewer, but then I found myself simultaneously … Continue reading My camera is not turning photos yellow – it’s Windows Photo Viewer that is turning photos yellow
Some time at or around 1780, the world’s economy went from being Malthusian to being Modern. Modern as in literally billions of us getting to lead increasingly comfortable lives. The graph of human creature comforts goes from horizontal to something very close to vertical. Deidre N. McCloskey has written a succession of books about this … Continue reading Deidre McCloskey praises the Bourgeois Deal
I have been receiving several of these calls recently, from faraway Indian-sounding guys who all, coincidentally, have English-sounding names. Once again, I am reminded that the internet is the internet, and that if I type some words into my computer, along the lines of “I’m calling you from Windows …”, I should get the story. … Continue reading “I’m calling you from Windows about your computer …”
GodDaughter One’s Mum and Dad are members of a theatre-going gang, who take it in turns to organise for them all to go to the theatrical performance, about every month or so. Tonight it was Antony and Cleopatra by the RSC, at the Barbican. But GodDaughter One’s Mum was otherwise engaged, helping out with a … Continue reading The RSC’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Barbican
This evening I started contriving what I hope will be the first of quite a few excerpts from The Judgement of Paris, the book referred to in the previous posting. But it all took far longer than I had thought it would. Those Frenchies and their accents! Also, lots of numbers referring to endnotes had/have … Continue reading Un autre quota photo
Today I finally got to the end of The Judgement of Paris. I have now started making a list of some short bits of it that I hope to reproducing here. Meanwhile, by way of a small celebration, here is a Parisian photo I took, in Paris, way back in February 2012: It’s the Tour … Continue reading An interruption ends