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AEF
Yesterday I walked across Vauxhall Bridge. It’s been a while since I have done this, which is why I only yesterday discovered that just opposite the MI6 building there is a frenzy of excavation...
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Black and white Mini (with a black and white Union Jack)
I say “Mini”. One of the signs of getting old is that you find yourself putting sneer quotes around things that younger people think are real but which you think are fake: That’s not a Mini. The Minis...
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An advertising agency in Pimlico
A handful of years ago now, Samizdata’s Perry de Havilland and his lady used to live in Chelsea, and that caused me quite often to be walking along the north bank of the River, between, one way or the...
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Scott Adams: Am I the only person who thinks Epstein’s death makes it MORE likely we will find out the extent of his crimes? He wasn’t going to talk, but he might have kept others from doing so while...
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The Helter Skelter that never was
I don’t often often get close up with the Big Things of the City of London. Mostly I just admire the changing scene they have made for London over the last two decades, but from a distance. But in...
View ArticleRock and roll is here to stay
But a lot of rock and rollers are about to leave the stage for ever. Ed Driscoll: Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art...
View ArticleMichael McIntyre speaks for me
And for many others, I’m very sure: I found this here. I am Old, but I have made enough friends among the Young for me to be able to twist Young arms and mostly get them to do all this for me. The...
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Vapour trails
I photoed this vapour trail in December 2005. I’m pretty sure I have others, but this was the first vapour trail I found in the archives: And I think that it is indeed a vapour trail. But now take a...
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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...
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Tardigrades on the moon?
Definitely the best “other creature” in the news during the last few days: It looks like a space monster in a movie, from the far off time before special effects became perfect and boring, and...
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Jason Crawford: Someone asked me recently what’s a boring topic that I’m excited/fascinated by. That’s easy: … Anton Howes liked this, which is how I encountered it. (Off topic, but: Howes actually...
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...
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Quota T-shirts (XL)
A favourite recent photo, featuring one of Homer Simpson’s funnier pronouncements: The result of my weird habit of photoing stuff in tourist crap shops. Except that this wasn’t crap. I don’t think so,...
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4-4-0
This evening I happened upon episode 1 of Trains That Changed The World on Yesterday TV, the show which has Steve Davies in it. This was the episode I missed the first time around, so I am very happy...
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How London is moving downstream
What do you suppose this is?: Okay, no silly games, this is Disneyland London. They have in mind to construct this during the next few years, out east, on the south bank, on that bit of land that...
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Ancient cars in LA
Indeed: That was photoed by this blog’s setter-up Michael Jennings, last month, in Los Angeles. Presumably these cars were for some sort of movie or TV show. Whenever you see cars being carried about...
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I continue to read The Square and the Tower, and very good it is too, just like it says inside the front cover and on the back cover. In the chapter about the Russian Revolution, appropriately entitled...
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Here: The most interesting thing about Apsley House, former home of the Duke of Wellington, is that there’s a massive naked statue of Napoleon at the bottom of the stairs. It’s huge apparently, over...
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Broadway in black and white
Yesterday afternoon, on my way to St James’s Tube, I once again passed, and photoed, the ever changing scene that is The Broadway (or something similar), as it takes shape. It’s going to be a cluster...
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