Patrick and I talk about Enoch Powell
The latest Patrick Crozier/Brian Micklethwait recorded conversation is now up and listenable-to. We talk about Enoch Powell, of whom Patrick writes: Enoch Powell was a prominent politician in the 1960s...
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A view from The Rooftop
Dined last night at this place. I photoed lots of photos, the four below showing the view that I later zoomed in on: The day was warm, what with it being cloudless. But the evening got cold, ditto....
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Invisible Oscar
Oscar, the cat of GodDaughter2’s parental home down in the South of France, is a favourite object of photographic devotion here, and on the right there, the latest Oscar photo, from GD2D, showing him...
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Death matters and so does Surrey doing well
Earlier today I had a really serious phone conversation with my Designated Best Friend about palliative care, being kept alive with scary electric shock machines (which my DBF said actually work very...
View ArticleMonkey plays pong just by thinking about it
Earlier today I talked with my friend Bruno, who told me about an unusual monkey. Unusual to me, anyway. This monkey had electrodes inserted into his brain, and then they got him to play a favourite...
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I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
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Michael Jennings tells me more about mobile phone photography
Today Michael Jennings, the creator and still technical curator of this blog, who was in my area for the first time in quite a while, called round and we went out and had drinks. In a Pimlico pub....
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Views from and of the Blue Fin Building
GodDaughter2 has been doing a job in the Blue Fin Building, which is just behind Tate Modern. About three quarters of the way up this building there is a roof area you can walk about in and sit at...
View ArticleToday Patrick and I had another conversation about World War One
We had already decided that our chat today would be about what kicked off World War One. However, as part of my homework for this, I listened again to this earlier conversation we recorded about World...
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Castelnou
Castelnou is a small and impossibly picturesque hill town in the lower reaches of the Pyrenees, in the far south of France. GodDaughter2’s parents and I went by car, just over five years ago now, in...
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BMNB quote of the day: If you feel something is missing …
Here we go: It’s been a quiet day here at BMNB, which is not surprising given how wonderful the weather has been. Just the right amount of warm. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect. Who, on a day like...
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Today I ate ice cream with a knife and fork
More socialising today. Returned home exhausted and had a sleep. With luck, fuller report with photos follows, although nothing promised. For now, this ice cream photo must suff-ice: This was in...
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Duck & Waffle views yesterday
Yesterday’s Duck & Waffle socialising was with, get this, GodDaughter1 and GodDaughter2, These two favourite people of mine had, until yesterday, only met very fleetingly during parties or events...
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Some surprises at the Royal Marsden today
Now that the weather is good and Lockdown seems to be easing, I am doing a lot more getting out, but am in a physical state where properly thoughtful blogging is hard to do on a day when I will be...
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Another Golden Gate photo
Big and brand new bridges are pretty rare these days, after a burst of them (or such is my recollection) around two decades ago. So, here is a photo of an Oldie But Goldie, which I encountered on...
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22 dwarfs 42 (again)
Regular BMNB commenter Alastair James, noting my growing liking for 22 Bishopsgate, just sent me this photo, taken by him from Finsbury Circus: That’s 22 Bishopsgate looming up behind Tower 42, the...
View ArticleThe latest conversation with Patrick Crozier is now up
I only started deciding what to put here today quite late on. What should I say here today? Then, to rescue me, incoming from Patrick Crozier, telling me that our latest recorded conversation is now...
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Adding Wembley to the big model of London
i’ve always liked that big model of London at the Building Centre in Store Street. Well, it’s not there any more. But, relax. It’s moved, to King’s Cross. And, there’s now more of it than there used to...
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Perry de Havilland on those Covid demonstrations
Well, I managed to do a posting that I had merely hoped to do for Samizdata, about the Covid demo in London the weekend before last, linking back here to all the photos of it that I stuck up here....
View ArticlePatrick and I talk sport
Yes, the latest recorded conversation between me and Patrick Crozier is up. It’s about sport. My pet theory, that the rise of professional sport and the ending (for now (fingers crossed)) of great wars...
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