Thursday, December 21, 2006

part of the view from the south bank

a curious incident

an usher came out of the queen elizabeth hall to insist that "tripods are not allowed !"

yet there is no sign forbidding them

he threatened to call security because i was unwilling to comply

can anyone explain ?


portsmouth skyline from porchester


Saturday, December 16, 2006

wadworth's northgate brewery at devizes

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ellen rose forward ...

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... waiting for a train

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nice old lettering at bradford-on-avon

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bradford-on-avon pigeons holding a meeting

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a steeple in trowbridge

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corsham steeple

to my eye, the weathercock has a chinese dragon sort of style about it

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a bit of corsham court

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the folly next to corsham court

this was the backdrop for scene one in a short play called "hamlet, an every-day story of countryfolk", wot i wrote

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resident doves at the folly in corsham

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two very important dogs in their malmesbury pied-a-terre

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i lived in the right hand cottage at 35 horsefair in malmesbury from about 1950 to 1955

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my brother dave has taken the principle of neighbourhood watch to his heart

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david forward and his sculptures

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a garden fence in gastons road in malmesbury

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a nice old cast-iron sign in malmesbury

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a segment of the porch of malmesbury abbey

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a waterspout on the porch of malmesbury abbey

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an ancient coffin in malmesbury churchyard ... just my size !

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a sign board in the athelstan museum ... i remember mister saunders

as a boy he'd served in the army in india before the first world war

after the first world war he sold tea from a van in the cotswolds and the severn valley and was frost-bitten

he knew how to break horses

in the nineteen fifties and early sixties, his little grocery shop in saint john's street was still without electricity and lit by tilley lamps

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