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Two Big Thing alignments in one photo
This afternoon, I found myself at Oval Tube, seeing a man about a mobile phone. The weather was filthy, just short of actual heavy rain, so you’d think there’d not be a lot of photo-fun to be had, but...
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Lockdown chat with Patrick
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...
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New River walk with GodDaughter1 from Bounds Green to Enfield
On April 2nd 2016, GodDaughter1 and I went on a photo-expedition along the New River. It was most enjoyable, and I prepared another of those big photo-clutches that I could seldom bother to do on the...
View ArticleMaintenance issues should now be sorted
Any person who have had anything to do with IT (aka everybody) knows, when IT work is being done (even something as humble as doing some rearranging of a little blog like this one), that the word...
View ArticleToday I did Something (and saw five e-scooters (which are cool))
Typically, for the last few months, I have days and days of doing nothing other than whatever I feel inclined to do. On such days, doing two, three or even four blog postings here is doable. But give...
View ArticleWhen podcasting clashes with the cricket
Monday before last, on July 20th, Patrick Crozier and I were fixed to do another of our recorded conversations, about France’s military activities and ordeals during the two world wars, and especially...
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Two fearless cats
First, a cat I met during Lockdown in June, enjoying the almost empty road, and strolling across it like he owned it: If Lockdown ever ends, the urban animal tendency is going to be mysteriously...
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Tower Bridge at night
Lots of postings yesterday, but today, after one, other things to do. So, to make it two today, here’s a quota photo that I like: This is another of Michael J’s, photoed, presumaably, on one of his...
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Towers and flowers
I spent this afternoon with Alastair, who often comments here. Great day. We walked from Greenwich to the Dome, with pauses for drink. So, am now knackered. Which means that just one photo will have to...
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Still Thames water at the beginning of Lockdown
I think that, on balance, this was the best photo I got yesterday: But I didn’t photo it yesterday. I couldn’t have. This was taken on April 5th, by Alastair. He showed it to me on his phone, and I...
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about French military disappointments (and so does...
These disappointments happened in 1870, 1914, 1917, 1940, 1944(?) and 1954. We don’t talk about them in chronological order, because we started with 1914, which was the failed French Ardennes...
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The view from The Point
I’ve already done several photo-postings about that walk Alastair and I did, from Blackheath to the Dome. There was that posting that rhymed. There was a cat. There was that amazing photo of the River...
View ArticleRemembering a happy birthday choral music experience
I’m now concocting a posting based on some photos I took in the South of France while visiting GodDaughter2’s family. This visit was in January of this year (which now feels like about five years ago),...
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Woodcat and Oscar
Am I becoming a cat lady in my old age? Probably. Although it may be more that, as I get older, I become less bothered about pretending not to be a cat lady, having always been one. That’s Oscar, and a...
View ArticleRobot car thoughts
I get emails from Google telling me what the internet has been saying about robot cars, and the most recent such email concerned a Forbes piece, entitled Full Self-Driving Cars Are Still A Long Way Off...
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My homework for tomorrow
Tomorrow, Patrick Crozier and I will, all being well, recording a conversation about the Industrial Revolution, aka The Kink. Too busy re-remembering what they said to be able to write about that now.
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A bike and a back ache
Today I photoed this guy and his bike, with his permission: But not his face, although he didn’t seem to mind about that. I went to the Pedal Me website, but am still none the wiser about the exact...
View ArticleA rearrangement
Around three days ago, GodDaughter2 and I fixed to meet up, face to face, for the first time since Lockdown began, and before she disappears to the South of France for a month. We agreed on: Royal...
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E-scooters on a train
Today, GodDaughter2 and I finally met up with each other. The timing changed again, from yesterday afternoon to this afternoon, but the location was as previously rearranged, Acton Central railway...
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