holiday reading material

 

all the new bits of the sagrada familia are moulded concrete

whatever shapes the current builders design, closely following gaudi's original scheme of things, their brilliantly clever modern concrete moulding techniques can never look good against his traditional workers' original hand-carved stonework

this project could have kept an army of catalan masons in work for another century or more

it vexes me almost as much as real madrid's selling claude makelele to chelsea, or tony blair privatising the hospital oxygen supply

from the giddy staircases of the sagrada familia to that perplexingly late intrusion, torre agbar

 

on your right, ladies & gentleman ...

montserrat ... la rambla ... torre agbar ... the mediterranean !
 

there's a big tree at the end of the drive ...

 

on the way to the wonderful bailiff's court hotel ... "oi ! mind my new roof !"

 

one of hove's lovely old lamposts

 

powis square, brighton ... i used to live at number four

 

taxi driver

if anyone ever decides to film a remake of taxi driver, haywards heath would make a fine location ... sorry about the fuzzy picture, i was on the move

 

lunchtime at the bluebell railway

it is lucky for me that my current round takes me past the bluebell railway as i go from ockenden manor to ashdown park

i took my half-hour break at horsted keynes station, paying this feller a whole pound for my platform ticket

money well spent !

i was just in time to see the arrival and departure of two lovely old steam trains

loose change at horsted keynes

 

good advice

 

Sssssss !

 

the train now arriving at platform two ...

 

i suppose its some kind of pump thingy

 

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quietly hauling her train up the hill from horsted station

if she isn't an old templecombe stalwart, i'll eat my anorak !

 

southern region coffin carrier

 

horsted keynes hospitality ... a tempting coal fire but it was time to get back to work

 

red enough for two

 

battersea power station

on my way home i stopped to take a picture of the power station from queenstown road just below chelsea bridge

then i decided to cycle up to hyde park ....