Tuesday, January 22, 2008

a walk along the embankment, starting from aldwych and walking towards westminster

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sir joseph bazalgette

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w.s.gilbert

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sir walter besant

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Monday, January 21, 2008

trickle-down theory vindicated ... at last !

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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/reaganomics_finally_trickles_down
Sunday, January 20, 2008

i was surprised to learn that ... when they built the first iron bridge across the river severn ...

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... that they built the frame first ...

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... and then they built the abutments

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

look in to my eyes and obey me ... you will go to the dulwich picture gallery !

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interrred on this spot ... the founders of the dulwich picture gallery

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the new coen brothers' film no country for old men ...

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( picture of mccarthy and the coens reproduced without permission from time magazine ) you couldn't ask for better evocations of the w...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

bought flowers

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

cast iron at the V&A ... the worshipful company of salters

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a relic of the salters' guild ... i think their motto translates as "salt flavours everything" http://www.heraldicmedia.com/si...

after another visit to the v&a ... the re-write of pride and prejudice can wait no longer ...

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the original plot seems a little lacking in proper drama ... maybe i can re-introduce the menage a trois scene, deleted by austen's publ...

a slow read

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I’m slowly finding my way towards the end of a book of essays by Susan Sontag, which I bought more than two years ago. The title is “Where t...
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legal tender

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= 0.99 US dollars at today's exchange rate, or one old Bank Of England ten-bob note down Memory Lane
Saturday, January 12, 2008

good king arthur ... ruling the civilized world at eccles road

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the grand, just opposite clapham junction

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

estrella morente

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takes me to another place ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Gq1Ut2MgA
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

just trying out a wide-angle low-perspective of a familiar subject

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