Incoming from Amazon
All of these arrived today, from Chateau Samizdata, where nobody cons their way past the front door and nicks stuff: Looking forward to reading this one especially. It has been warmly received. The...
View ArticleWill you SURVIVE THE PLAGUE?
I’ve just been meandering through the photo-archives, trying to find out when was my last totally pre-Covid walkabout. Not even any vaguely threatening headlines, just life as we knew it before … it....
View ArticleBeatrice and Titania
Badly needing to get out and exercise, so quota photo, of the above mentioned ladies: Photoed with my old Canon A70, way back in 2003. Behind the two yellow ladies, you can just make out the Wheel. I...
View ArticleTaxi-with-advert photoed in 2005
Indeed. There I was, in 2005, out and about in London, photoing things like this: … which even by 2005 was fairly routine for me. But then, later the same day, in Battersea, walking beside the River...
View ArticleA techno-prophecy from one of Rebus’s drinking pals
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...
View ArticleWill Groundhog Day stop happening tomorrow?
I haven’t tortured myself by following the details, but am I correct in supposing that tomorrow, things will start to open up again? Here are some photos I photoed of the front of the Old Vic Theatre,...
View ArticleOn people not having to put up with too much crap at work any more
Seen today on Twitter: A lady cleaner jacks her job in after getting a dressing down from her horrid boss. I don’t know the details, or whose fault this really was. Maybe “Julie” behaved very badly....
View ArticleSome photos of last Saturday’s London Covid demo
I am in no state to be doing to demos just now, but I have friends who have no such problems. And one friend dropped by for a visit last Saturday, bringing photos of the demo he had just attended, just...
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