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Stone Lantern

  Hex colourful reference:  #ffcfab A colourful note:  peach is a delicate colour, named after the pale internal flesh of a peach fruit.  The first recorded use of this name as […]
Stone Lantern

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The Bard

Close to the Globe Theatre on the south bank of the Thames, you can now find a bright mural of Shakespeare.   This colorful piece is the work of Australian […]
The Bard

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Up

Over to all of you to join the theme with your own up post, or with a post based on any single word that takes your fancy. And if you haven’t […]
Up

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Flying Beetles

Elytra Filament Pavilion formed part of the 2016 V&A Engineering Season.  This overhead structure was inspired by the shells of flying beetles known as elytra. The result was an undulating expanse of […]
Flying Beetles

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Busy Blackfriars

Blackfriars Bridge was packed on New Year’s Eve with eager viewers of the fireworks.  The lights at a lower level are the railway station on the neighbouring Rail Bridge.   […]
Busy Blackfriars

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Conservation

    Hex colour reference:  #ff5349 A colourful note:  red orange appeared in the Crayola boxes in 1930, an obvious mix of the two named colours.  Many of the shades provided by Crayola […]
Conservation

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Reconstruction

  Hex colour reference:  #bc5d58 A colourful note: chestnut is a reddish shade of brown named after the nut of the chestnut tree.  This colour joined the family of Crayola crayons […]
Reconstruction