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The Colour of Ice Cream

We are having something of a heat wave here in Britain; so hot that the railway lines were melting near London Waterloo the other day.  So I thought that for […]

Skateboarder in Motion

Even if you don’t know much about skateboarding, if you live in London or visit the South Bank entertainment complex, you’ll know this skate park. In fact, a battle between […]

Macabre Toy

The Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, on England’s Kent coast, is currently showing an exhibition entitled “Curiosity”. Many of the shops around the old town are supporting that exhibition by […]

Rows of Red

Incredible begonias in the English Garden in Regents Park, London. . Posted as part of Ruby Tuesday.

Woman Driver

This beautiful mural, made of ceramic tiles painted by Brian James in 2011, marks the former site of  a Bloomsbury petrol station.  The old Ridgmount petrol station dates back to […]

Happy Days

Happy Days! Here I am, outside school in the mid 1970s (that’s me second from right), with a group of friends.  Like the uniform? You’re not seeing the worst of […]

St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral looks particularly striking in this pencil sketch. The sketch is in fact a modified version of this photograph, altered using Picasa.  Here is my original: This post […]

Yellow Flowers in Regents Park

The gardens at Regents Park are spectacular at the moment; as you’ll see with these yellow flowers:   Posted as part of the Sunday Stills Next Challenge: Yellow Flowers.

Corpus Christi Reflections

The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, to use its full name, is the 6th oldest college in Cambridge University, founded in 1352 by townspeople , primarily […]

Urban Design in London

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages.  It is an inter-disciplinary subject that unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, and civil and municipal engineering. In […]

Royal Naval College Mirrored

The Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, was not given its name for nothing. The ceiling is painted in the utmost detail, hard to appreciate with […]