A dog drinking fountain in Kensington Gardens, London, November 2022 This bronze sculpture by Silvia Gilley was erected in 1961 in memory of Esmé Saville Percy (1887–1957), an English actor, manager […]
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, September 2022 Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of us openly break the numeric […]
Achilles in Hyde Park, London “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” Copyright Debbie Smyth, 23 March 2022 Posted as part of Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge …
John Donne outside St Paul’s Cathedral, London, May 2021 This statue of Donne was erected in 2012. He clearly turns towards the East, away from St Paul’s and towards his […]
Dancing with ribbons on Oxford Street, London, March 2021 Bourne & Hollingsworth was a large department store in an 1894 building on Oxford Street. It was remodelled in the late 1920s in […]
Picnics are extremely popular in England at the moment, despite the changeable weather – relaxing of lockdown means that picnics are now allowed. And this couple were making the most […]
This statue was maliciously decapitated in 2016 by some not-so-merry locals, who felt that wrestling with a Victorian statue made good nighttime entertainment. The next morning, the head and shoulders […]
Angel of the North, Gateshead, August 2020 – Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge with your own body post.To join the challenge, please […]