More green spherical objects....this time horse chestnuts. Not quite ready to fall.
Sunday 29 August 2010
More green spherical objects....this time horse chestnuts. Not quite ready to fall.
Friday 27 August 2010
She is well over 40 years old. A strange papermache type ornament that I have always loved.
Thursday 26 August 2010
The roof on Liverpool Street station. Thousands of people pass through here each day, if they looked up they would see the beauty of this amazing Victorian cast iron structure, renovated with reasonable sympathy about 30 years ago.
Monday 23 August 2010
Wherever I have lived I have always had a loft. A loft is a special place where you can put 'stuff'. Stuff that you no longer need but cannot bear to be parted from. I have always managed to fill lofts to the maximum! Even had a wardrobe in one!
Sunday 22 August 2010
Our store of logs for the winter, one of the best things about winter is our log burner.
Saturday 21 August 2010
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Today I went to Regents Park Open Air Theatre, a special piece of the British Summer where you have a picnic, champagne and then watch a play or a musical all in the open air with the added excitement of being rained upon at any minute. This year it was Stephen Sondheims 'Into the Woods'. It was an excellent production. The picture, taken in the theatre, is my daughter Heather and her fiancee Rob who came with me. I was going to show a picture of the set but was persuaded otherwise!
Friday 20 August 2010
Fishmongers in Borough Market. They hang plastic bags full of water over the fish. I have wondered for years why? They must get so many people ask, they have hung up a sign 'What are the bags for?' Answer: to keep the flies off. Now I never knew that!
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Well I did a sunrise, so this is a sunset.....having a Topol moment. Taken from my kitchen window.
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Sunrise, picture taken at 5.40 a.m. We do get better sunrises than this but this was the first one worth taking a picture of since I started this blog and I must admit it was the first one I was awake for.
Monday 16 August 2010
I am very attached to my fairy windchime. I bought her in Australia in 2007, I daresay she was made in China but I loved that part of the holiday so much and she reminds me of those three special days at O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park.
Sunday 15 August 2010
I had in mind to take a different picture but Holly came to help, look at the fur coat and tail. There is a very small cat in there somewhere.
Saturday 14 August 2010
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Little Bromley, now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The Church dates back to Norman times but this window is dated 1649 and asks us to remember Charles Stuart, King & Martyr.
Friday 13 (ouch!) August 2010
Rained most of today, everything looks so dull except the pebbles in our driveway, they look wonderful in the rain.
Thursday 12 August 2010
A real treat today, a 120 mile round trip to our nearest Ikea. I love Ikea, I love the concept, the design, the ideas, the things you didn't know you wanted until you saw them, the way you can be in there for hours and not realise, the reasonable prices so you never feel robbed, the foodhall and the hotdogs!
Wednesday 11 August 2010
We planted this tree in our garden last winter. This is its best side...it was pot grown (quite a large pot) and over the years had grown quite twisted. It is the sort of tree only a mother would love. Hopefully over the next few years it will repay us giving it freedom with stunning spring and autumn colour.
Tuesday 10 August 2010
The Thames, taken facing west from London Bridge. St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the murky distance. The two towers are Canon Street station. Tide in, rain hammering down.
Saturday 7 August 2010
Proof that rabbits are eating my garden. About this I am NOT happy! (If this photo is too offensive I have got another one for this day)
Friday 6 August 2010
The Globe again, this time I was a 'groundling'. Thankfully the rain held off. Henry VIII a rarely performed play, excellent!
Wednesday 4 August 2010
Gillian -
The Oikos (pronounced eekos) Project. The idea is to build a theatre from 'found materials' (they mean recycled or donated - mainly palletts and large water bottles) At the end of the summer the Jellyfish Theatre are going to put on two productions inside this.
Tuesday 3 August 2010
This area of London just south of the Thames is called Bankside. The Bankside authority do a lot to make the area a nice place to be. One of the things they do are these baskets of flowers on hundreds of lamp posts. The baskets are always yellow and pink. This time of year they are magnificent.
Monday 2 August 2010
Things I hate....roadworks right outside my office window on a Monday morning. They only dug this up a few months ago!
Sunday 1 August 2010
This lovely thistle is growing in the part of the garden where we leave the grass to grow long.
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