fortnum and mason windows on a less windy night than last time (ii)

it seemed worth going back, with a less shaky tripod to try to get those textures, but you really need studio lights and no plate glass

crikey ! they've cleaned up saint pancras !

sir john betjeman at saint pancras

obsessive compulsive photographers' disorder

i got up early again on my day off and took some more night pictures in the courtyard of the royal academy

there was less wind and i remembered to tighten up the tripod parts as well, so these pictures may have gained a little clarity

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/sculpture-in-the-annenberg-courtyard/

http://www.zhanghuan.com/ShowWork.asp?id=63&iParentID=2

the huguenot cemetery ... stranded between two streams of traffic on the south circular

i imagine that huguenot mansions was a speculative development and not a ghetto

st john's therapy centre, battersea ... provides many services that used to be had a mile away at the bolingbroke hospital

general wolfe at westerham village green

any old irons ? the yard at the royal academy needs a tidy

the loved one has just gone shopping ...

sez she: is there anything you'd like me to bring you, dear ?

sez he: a different coloured armani suit for every day of the week would be nice !

fortnum and mason's ... twelve drummers drumming, 'leven pipers piping

it is my weekend off but i got up at the usual time and took a fourteen bus from the green man to piccadilly so there'd be no distractions while i photographed the christmas window display at fortnum and mason

fortnum and mason's ... ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing

fortnum and mason's ... eight maids a milking, seven swans a swimming

fortnum and mason's ... six geese a laying, five gold rings

fortnum and mason's ... four calling birds, three french hens

fortnum and mason's ... two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree

... and there woz light

window shopping in jermyn street ( i )

window shopping in jermyn street (ii)

http://www.florislondon.com/FlorisSite/pages/cms/cms.asp?sCCPage=History

... and then they diversified in to motels

http://www.bates-hats.co.uk/formal.html

two new verbs in the wiltshire gazette ... i quote ...

He and the Dyson family is listed in 59th place in this year's Sunday Times Rich List, with a £1.08 billion fortune and assets including a £3 million French chateau.

The company is headquartered in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, where it employs more than 1,200 staff.

The firm manufactures all products in Malaysia since a decision in 2002 to offshore the operation, a move which caused outcry, with 500 UK jobs axed under the switch abroad.