This week’s photo is just a silly diptych I made from a couple of boring shots taken in a restaurant earlier in the week.
Beginning & Ending
London; August 2014
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Beginning & Ending
London; August 2014
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Beginning & Ending
London; August 2014
Weekly Photograph
This week’s photo was taken a few years ago at Avebury Stone Circle. This is just one of the stones and the two girls give you some idea of their size, although not all the stones are as enormous as this.
Waiting for the Fairies
Avebury; August 2006
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The City of Westminster seems to have gone mad this year with their hanging baskets. Or maybe they are just especially splendid due to the warm, and slightly damp, summer. Whichever they are magnificent. This one was in Mount Street, Mayfair, but all are the same extravagant display.
Hanging
Mayfair, August 2014
Photograph of the Week
This week another from the archives. This young lady was wandering into Hammersmith Hospital one hot August day a couple of years ago.
Young Lady
Hammersmith Hospital; August 2012
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This week’s photograph is one for posterity. Before it disappears into the wide blue yonder, here’s a picture of Boris’s Cock in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Boris’s Cock
London; June 2014
Buggered Britain #22
Another in my occasional series documenting some of the underbelly of Britain. Britain which we wouldn’t like visitors to see and which we wish wasn’t there. The trash, abused, decaying, destitute and otherwise buggered parts of our environment. Those parts which symbolise the current economic malaise; parts which, were the country flourishing, wouldn’t be there, would be better cared for, or made less inconvenient.
These two decrepit looking semis were spotted somewhere in Stanmore, NW London.
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Here’s a nice summery shot for this week. Taken in our front garden.
Holly Blue Butterfly on Hebe
Greenford; July 2011
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This week another from the archives. I spotted this enormous cup and saucer last summer in the window of Alice’s Shop, in St Aldate’s, Oxford. And yes, that is a normal sized cake stand next to it!
Mega Cup
Oxford; August 2013
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This week another from the archives. This is a montage of individual shots of the ten Queen’s Beasts statues outside the Palm House at Kew Gardens. They’re magnificent statues some 6 feet tall.
In fact these are replicas in Portland stone (commissioned in 1958 by Sir Henry Ross, then Chairman of the Distillers Company) of the original plaster versions. The originals were commissioned by the British Ministry of Works from sculptor James Woodford to stand in front of the temporary western annexe to Westminster Abbey for the Queen’s coronation in 1953. The originals are now in Canada.
Queen’s Beasts at Kew
May 2010; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The ten heraldic beasts represent the genealogy of Queen Elizabeth II. They are (from L to R):
- White Greyhound of Richmond
- Yale of Beaufort
- Red Dragon of Wales
- White Horse of Hanover
- Lion of England
- White Lion of Mortimer
- Unicorn of Scotland
- Griffin of Edward III
- Black Bull of Clarence
- Falcon of the Plantagenet
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I spotted this young lady in The Light, Leeds when we were there a few weeks ago.
Blue 2
Leeds; June 2014