Sporty Sunday
The weather outside is again really nice, but it’s wasted on me and my camera. Because, it’s Spurs v Leicester on the internet, England v Windies on the internet, and England v France on the TV....
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New London
Matt Kilkoyne: The growth of London’s Isle of Dogs is beautiful. More please. What I like about this is the way the Big Things in the background are all blue-grey glass, while the little things in the...
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John C. Reilly – Ian Hislop
On the left here, John C. Reilly, shown enacting one of the Sisters Brothers, Eli, in the graphics advertising the movie of that name. On the right, Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, and star of...
View ArticleDeadpan Robert Smith
A little snatch of video. Won’t take you long at all. I encountered it here, and you can too. It made me lol and maybe it will make you lol too. Or maybe just smile a bit. Or not, even if you do quite...
View Article“This world needs more eyesores, more carbuncles …”
Or to put it another way: London’s new Tulip skyscraper is great, but why aren’t more people embedding sharks in their roof? Well, I can think of quite a few answers to that question, but I get the...
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Cricket at Beckenham
Today I journeyed out to Beckenham, to watch the afternoon and evening sessions of Day 3 of Kent v Surrey. Warning: do not follow the above link if you are allergic to pretentious writing. When Daniel...
View ArticleBoris pater mixed metaphor alert
Incoming email with mixed metaphor and Other creatures news: Stanley Johnson, Boris pater, on Sky News this morning re Brexit deal: “We’re barking up the wrong horse …” From GodDaughter2’s pater Tony,...
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Quota gallery – June 3rd 2009
Indeed. I did quite a bit of work on another posting today, about scaffolding and video cameras and suchlike. But it’s not finished yet, and I don’t like to rush what I say about scaffolding. So here...
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A drone at the Oval – and what drones will replace
I took this photo at the Oval (sorry the Kia Oval), on July 23rd 2012, when I and Michael Jennings were watching England lose by an innings to South Africa: All very regrettable. England lost all...
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Herbert Sutcliffe with possum
Asked Cricinfo, a while back: Who has made the most runs in an Ashes Test only to end on the losing side? I love that kind of thing, so of course I went to find out who it was, and I encountered this...
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3D printing nano-tech inspired forms could lead to stronger, lighter buildings
And there’s a great picture at the top of the report: What they did was scale up a 3D printing technique that had been developed at a micro level a quarter of a century ago, for making a really strong...
View ArticleAnother podcast I just listened to that was good
Here. It’s Bryan Caplan (the guy who gave this lecture that I recently attended), talking to Darren Grimes of the IEA. Caplan disagrees with most voters, but in an ingratiating way. As he himself says...
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How London is moving downstream
What do you suppose this is?: Okay, no silly games, this is Disneyland London. They have in mind to construct this during the next few years, out east, on the south bank, on that bit of land that...
View ArticleCummings wins it – Parris misses it
When Boris Johnson appointed Dominic Cummings as his behind the scenes shouter-in-chief, I started to hope that things had taken a turn for the better. I continued to fear the worst, but stopped...
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A selection of 2019 newspaper headlines
I find that newspaper headlines, photoed in such places as shops from which I purchase other goods but not newspapers, can make pleasingly evocative souvenirs, as time goes by. Things that loomed large...
View ArticleI have been named in the New Year Honours list 2020
Or so it says in this headline: Every Londoner named in the New Year Honours list 2020 Let me spell it out for you. This means that every single Londoner has been named on the New Year Honours list....
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Soleimani etc.
In connection with the death of Qasem Soleimani, Mick Hartley posts this picture [photo credit: AFP]: Plenty of Middle Easterners are now, it seems, rejoicing. In another posting, Hartley quotes Gerard...
View ArticleThe voice of the Falklands War
This afternoon, Patrick Crozier and I recorded another of our podcasts. In due course, assuming the machine recording us didn’t misbehave, it should be showing up here. Towards the end, during the...
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They’re about to dig up the road
Another quota photo, because: another busy day. I may have time later to do something for here, but don’t want to have to be bothering about this. So: Again, photoed quite recently. Well, this year....
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about the Falklands War
As earlier noted, Patrick Crozier and I recently recorded a conversation about the Falklands War, involving both what we each remembered about it from when we lived through it (early in 1982), and what...
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