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Debbie Smyth

Very British

This very British-looking dragon looks as though it should be in London but there’s a little clue to its real location at the top of the picture. It is, in […]

Work in Progress

Stevenson Square in Manchester’s Northern Quarter underwent its 3-monthly changeover of mural art a couple of weeks ago. Mancunian Wave reported that the walls were white just as arrived in […]
Work in Progress

Mistress of the Unexpected

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (1890 – 1976) was an incredibly prolific English writer, known best, of course, for her crime novels (66 in all).  She also wrote short stories and plays, plus six romances under the […]

Tower Reflection

The weather here in England is freezing, but we are still getting plenty of sun, surprisingly for late November.  Witness this almost perfect reflection of Tower Bridge taken late afternoon […]

Hay’s Galleria

Hay’s Galleria is a popular shopping and eating venue on London’s South Bank. Originally a warehouse and associated wharf (Hay’s Wharf) for the port of London, it was redeveloped as a […]

Spiky Leaves of the Joshua Tree

As its latin name, Yucca brevifolia, shows, the Joshua Tree is really a Yucca plant, but its tree-like stature gives it its common names of Joshua tree, yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree […]