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Pavlova in front of “Portland House”
Yesterday I was in Victoria Station, and as I emerged from it into … that mess of activity outside the front entrance, I noticed that the light seemed particularly appealing. At first what got my...
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The performing horses of Warwick Castle: Nice legs – shame about the faces
Over the summer, a friend of mine was performing in a show at Warwick Castle about the Wars of the Roses. And early last August a gang of her friends and family went there to see this, me among them....
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The performing horses of Warwick Castle (2): After the show
Remember those performing horses of Warwick Castle, galloping up and down on a thin rectangular arena, telling the story of the Wars of the Roses. Course you do. I showed you a spread of photos of...
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Old and cross
Photoed by me, on the same day that I most recently photoed Bartok: As I get older, I find myself, every so often, getting crosser. Not all the time, you understand, just in occasional eruptions. But I...
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Taxis with adverts in the dark
For reasons too complicated and undignified to elaborate upon, I have been sitting at home, waiting for one sofa to be taken away and for another sofa to be delivered, preferably in that order. This...
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Cricket at Beckenham
Today I journeyed out to Beckenham, to watch the afternoon and evening sessions of Day 3 of Kent v Surrey. Warning: do not follow the above link if you are allergic to pretentious writing. When Daniel...
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An historic weather forecast
I have no idea what it was like storming a Normandy beach, on June 6th 1944. I also don’t really know how they do weather forecasting, but in recent years, because of being an amateur photoer, I have...
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When you don’t know it’s temporary
It’s all very well to say, as I often do, that it makes more sense to photo temporary stuff than stuff that will be around for ever. Sometimes, you do know that something will be temporary, like...
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Urban picturesque
Indeed: Photoed by me in September 2013. I have labelled this photo “NearlyEverything” because for me, it has nearly everything. Scaffolding, roof clutter ancient and modern, a crane, Magic Hour light,...
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Keeping up appearances with scaffolding and a painted sheet
I don’t know exactly where this was, only approximately. It was somewhere in the vicinity of Leicester and Trafalgar Squares, these being the place where I photoed the photo just before this on and...
View Article“Bill – do not do this!”
This is a Tweet where you have to show it all or it makes no sense: "Bill if you take this TV thing, you're finished. You're an actor, for God's sake! Theatre! Movies! I've seen that script too – it's...
View ArticleWorld Cup torture
Well, I didn’t watch England slowly torturing the All Blacks to death yesterday, because I could not bear the thought of watching what I was sure would happen, viz: the All Blacks slowly torturing...
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Drone photo of a Roman amphitheatre
Built by the Romans at Caerleon, which is near Newport in South Wales: Photo supplied by Gareth Blayney: Courtesy my drone. Drones are good for photos like that. Not so good, I speculate, for photos...
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So much for logic. More World Cup torture, for England anyway. By the end, it wasn’t even close. Looking back on it, it seems to me that what England did in this tournament was what France have done...
View ArticleFarce repeating itself as farce
This is rather good: Seriously, I remember back at Essex University in the early 1970s how the Lenin-with-hair tendency thought that the answer to every problem in the world then was to occupy...
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Taxis with adverts – July to December 2019
I know I know. There’s only one person in the whole world who likes clicking through huge collections of photos of London taxis with adverts on them. Me. But such galleries of persuasive transport are...
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Roz Watkins talks about her latest book – and about animals
Crime writer Tony Kent does a fifteen minute video-at-a-distance interview with fellow crime writer Roz Watkins. Roz is my niece, which is partly why I keep mentioning her here. But the bigger reason I...
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Signs in Seattle
Here: I agree with what Matthew Continetti says in this piece, which the above photo adorns, that this is froth. History as farce, Tom Wolf style. This “Seattle Soviet” is going nowhere. It’s “signs...
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Abney Park
Recently I was in the general vicinity of Lambeth, Stoke Newington, that sort of part of London, seeing things like a lion statue. But that lion was nothing to what came later. Which was this: This...
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Friday creatures Twitter dump (3): All the others
Further proof that a dog will put up with just about anything, including being biffed by a cat half its size, if it has been subjugated by humans and if the humans say it mustn’t retaliate. Well that...
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