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Golden Morning

A colourful note: use of the word gold is sometimes replaced with golden, to help distinguish from metallic gold.  The first recorded use of golden as a colour name in English was […]

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A Fuchsia Night in London

 a A colourful note: fuchsia is a purplish-pink colour named after the plant of the same name.  The plant was discovered in the late 17th century and was named in honour of […]

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Night Sky over Horatio

Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is commemorated by Nelson’s Column that towers over London’s Trafalgar Square.  It was constructed between 1840 and 1843 at […]

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Isaac Newton: Bigger than Life

This is an imposing depiction of Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726), an English physicist and mathematician whose achievements are many and varied.  He shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of […]

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A Balanced Alien

I have featured this massive upside-down alien previously.  He landed on his head in a London garden in early 2013, and was a feature that I would make a detour […]

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Speeding through London

  A colourful note: The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890, obviously named after the fruit.  I don’t know when electric […]

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Misty Walk Along the Thames

This week I’m going to take you along the Thames from Blackfriars Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge on a misty January day. At this point I had run out of time and […]

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Kew Beckons in February

For colour, variety and beautiful scenery, Kew Gardens never disappoint. These wonderful purples are from the 2014 occurrence of the annual Orchid Festival.  This year, the orchids are starring in the Carnival […]