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Literature

Wind Your Way to the Sea

“It was a funny little path, winding here and there, dashing off in different directions, and sometimes even tying a knot in itself from sheer joy. (You don’t get tired […]

-London

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 […]

-Kent

Scottish Design in Kent

The Sun Foundry was established in 1858 by George Smith in Glasgow.  It was an important company in the iron industry of the day, expanding quickly and moving to a larger site […]

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Food on the Brain?

Actually, it was brain in the food! This was one of the many, many highlights of the Istanbul at Dawn Workshop that I went on last April.  In fact this […]

-London

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 […]

-London

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 […]

-London

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 […]

-Turkey

Hot Work in a Caravanserai

The caravanserais behind Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar are home to many specialised workmen, including the following friendly metal worker who was slaving over the flames Linked to Hot Copyright Debbie Smyth, 2 February 2016 […]

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Invincible Sun

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer” – Albert Camus Sunny Stockholm, January 2016, linked to Backlit and Vibrant Copyright Debbie Smyth, […]