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New robot ship
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...
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Progress and the personal touch
The two photos below, taken at Chateau Michael Jennings, remind me yet again how valuable personal face-to-face contact is in an age of radically progressing technology. The irony being that a lot of...
View ArticleA sound file with sound advice about photography
Testing testing: https://www.brianmicklethwaitsnewblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2006-08-01-bruce-and-brian.mp3 Wow, that worked! First time. A long line with progress on display, just like the...
View ArticleI just googled “casedemic”
A significant slice of my most recent traffic has been coming to these two postings, both of them involving that word. Casedemic. So, I’m giving the public what it wants and doing another such posting....
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Taxi-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...
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London from the air – in 2005 and in 2020
I’ve written here a few times about London City Island, and how a sort of mini-Manhattan of unspectacular but decent looking apartment tower blocks have been built on it. Well, here are a couple of...
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Window pane sucker
Today I did the longest walk I’ve done in a month. I could show you a photo from that, but honestly, it would be quite the effort, after all my earlier efforts. So this, when I got home, was a very...
View ArticleTrue – necessary – kind
I get emails from Christian Michel about the virtual meetings he is still organising. Here is a snippet from the latest such email: A good friend sticks to this rule – any statement you are making...
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Charles Dance in Goswell Road
Back in 2016, a friend was regularly working in the Angel area, and I would often meet up with her at the Angel Tube, there to repair to a local coffee and cakes parlour. When we parted, I would often...
View ArticleThe public opinion graphs about The Plague are now crossing
A fortnight or so ago, GodDaughter2 and I discussed The Plague, and what a pain all the measures being taken against it were. Neither she nor any of her friends thought that The Plague itself was any...
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How London is protecting itself against the threatened Second Wave of The Plague
A friend (the one whom I refer to here as GD2S) iPhone-photoed this photo to nights ago, in Soho, London: The Plague is now over. The only thing London is now scared of is the damn “Temporary...
View ArticleTelephone pollsters can take a hike!
Bloomberg: A new online study finds that Republicans and independents are twice as likely as Democrats to say they would not give their true opinion in a telephone poll question about their preference...
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Learning how to photo my Last Friday of the Month meetings
Here’s a photo photoed years ago during one of my Last Friday of the Month meetings, at my home. It took me quite a while, as in many years, to get that photo. What I wanted was what my meetings were...
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Oscar yawns
My favourite cat, Oscar, is the cat housed and maintained by GodDaughter2’s family, down in the south of France. Search for Oscar on the left there, and you’ll encounter several other postings...
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Shard rising
Allow me once again to flee the horrors of the casedemic that is now laying waste to my country, despite my earlier optimism about how sanity might prevail around now. Allow me instead to celebrate the...
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Shard earlier today
Photo taken by a friend earlier today, of the Shard from downstream: Photoed with an iPhone 11. Pointed straight at the early afternoon sun. I’m impressed that the iPhone software managed to make so...
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Looking towards Vauxhall
I really like this photo, with its excellent detail in unpromising light, with its only occasional bits of colour and its big grunge boat in the foreground, by which I mean forewater: St Thomas’s...
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Vauxhall station signs and Big Things
Two photos I took within moments of each other at Vauxhall Station, in January 2011: I show you that one because I really like it. The Three-Eyed Elephant-and-Castle Tower looked particularly good when...
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Photos by Jim Turney of the Libertarian International World Convention of 1984
In 1984, I was one of many who helped organise a big Libertarian Conference at Royal Holloway College. US libertarian Jim Turney was one of those who attended, and he took these photos, which he has...
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More sport thoughts
Sport has filled the gap in society left by major wars between great powers. In general, as the world gets more peaceful, so too does it get more sports mad. Earlier this year, a fascinating sporting...
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