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A working environment
Posted on November 29, 2019
Back to a previous life this week for Cee’s Black $ White Photo Challenge with the topic of Doors and Drawers.
This was my office on the twenty-third floor of the headquarters of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, where I spent the last – and best – ten years of my working life. That’s the door on the right and obviously those are drawers underneath the desktop.
What I can’t get over is how tidy it was. My desk at home is an absolute tip.
On the tiles
Posted on November 22, 2019
It’s a few years ago now, but our builders asked if, as a temporary measure, they could leave a pallet stacked with old rooftiles outside our barn.
‘Of course not’, we said. ‘Just collect them when you’re ready’, we said.
They’re not ready.
L is for Logs
Posted on November 15, 2019
If you have a wood-burning stove, then it’s getting to that time of year:
The Old Stone Bridge at Sainte Radegonde
Posted on November 8, 2019
The River Vienne is comparatively narrow as it flows between the villages of Sainte Radegonde and St-Germain-de-Confolens and it’s crossed by a very old stone bridge. Look over the side and you’ll see that the roadway is supported on a number of pontoons, such as this one.
We’re talking telephone numbers here…
Posted on November 1, 2019
This abandoned shop in the Scottish town of Haddington was once the go-to place for those new-fangled satellite dishes
The kitchen of the castle
Posted on October 25, 2019
This surprisingly modest old kitchen is on display at a Chateau in the Dordogne departement of France.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things found in a kitchen
Floored Genius
Posted on October 18, 2019
Cee’s theme for hew Black & White Challenge this week is ‘Walkways, Hallways and Elevators’. This may be stretching a point, but this complex geometric pattern of wood inlay is on the floor of what could be described as a hallway in the Chateau at Azay-Le-Ferron. It’s impressive enough in real life but is even more striking in monochrome.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Walkways, Hallways and Elevators
Formal Gardens at Chateau Azay-le-Ferron
Posted on October 11, 2019
Not drinking water
Posted on October 4, 2019
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week could be said to require some lateral thinking, as she is setting the theme of ‘side of things’.
In the medieval centre of the town of Cahors there is a hexagonal water fountain, with each of the six sides featuring a carving of a different dog’s head. This image shows two of them.
The weight of tradition
Posted on September 27, 2019
Go to any brocante or vide-grenier around these parts and you’ll find plenty of old farming utensils which would nowadays probably be classed as – and only useful for – ‘design pieces’. Almost inevitably,somewhere in the jumble will be an old set of weights – like these:
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