Skip to content

-London

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 […]

-France

Cryptozoology and the Libraffe

The Oxford Dictionary defines cryptozoology as “the search for and study of animals whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the Loch Ness monster and the yeti”. […]

Challenges

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 […]

-London

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 […]

-London

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.

-East Midlands

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 […]

-London

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 […]

-London

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 […]