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Both Sides Now
Posted on November 24, 2021
A clever way of getting an all-round view of this elaborately decorative pendant, on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum (‘The V&A’) in London.
‘This Is The Place’
Posted on November 11, 2021
The Fun Foto theme for this week is a particularly interesting one: ‘future nostalgic’. For this, we are invited to select an image from our archives that we knew when we captured it we would enjoy looking at again in the future.
So here is the very first time we laid eyes on the house where we have now lived for over nine years. This was back in October 2004. We followed the agent (pictured on the right) in our own car and turned the little corner off the ‘main’ road through the hamlet that we call Tranquility Base.
Madame ‘got it’ straight away. I just saw a tumbledown money pit. It turned out we were both right, but now neither of us would want to live anywhere else.
Welcome To Chiswick
Posted on November 3, 2021
By all means enjoy a walk along the dirt path that runs next to the Thames in Chiswick, west London. But don’t even think about firing up your barbecue.
Am I the only one who finds that egregious apostrophe really irritating? The BBQ’s what?
The Lizard
Posted on October 19, 2021
I discovered this tiny and very squiggly lizard when I was covering up our garden furniture for the winter. There are lizards everywhere around here but they are typically no more than three inches long and find homes in the stonework of walls and so on. They pose no threat – indeed, they feed on insects that would otherwise attack our plants, so they’re actually quite a boon.
This particular specimen, no more than an inch and a half long, was especially colourful.
Even The Clouds Are Straight
Posted on October 13, 2021
A particularly dramatic sky early one recent morning. You expect the chemtrails from overflying aeroplanes to be straight, of course, but on this occasion the clouds seemed to be as well.
Arches Of Chartres Cathedral
Posted on October 7, 2021
The three great main doors of Chartres Cathedral are each framed in a whole series of carved gothic arches.
Shooting A drive-By
Posted on September 29, 2021
Even in the depths of the countryside (i.e just up the road in Asnieres-sur-Blour), where few tourists ever venture, the locals sometimes can’t resist dressing up in ‘archetypal’ clothes – beret and red neckerchief – and parading up and down the street in their lovingly cared-for old tractors.
Polygonal
Posted on September 22, 2021
There are more polygons than you could count in this image of the roof of one of the galleries of Dubai Mall.
The Unbreakable Bond
Posted on September 15, 2021
As Madame says, the umbilical cord is never really cut.
Our daughter and one of her twin boys (my, how they’ve grown).
(waist)coat of many colours
Posted on September 8, 2021
….although you might call it a vest.
This is part of the front of a waistcoat that I picked up in Spitalfields market in London more years ago than I care to think of.
I wear it when I’m feeling particularly rebellious. So hardly ever.
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