Weekend 237.0 (Son of a Florist)
Spent Saturday at Greenwich Park and snapped this little ditty in the Rose Garden. The park (and the area around it) is fantastic and after a little sleep I will Continue Reading →
Category Archives: England
London Calling
Starting with a quote… “Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.” — Calvin I was drafting a post loosely titled, “5 Things I Believe Emphatically” and Continue Reading →
Weekend 218.0 (Monuments out of moments)
(1) Espousing the Marriage to Slowness (WSJ) This rhythm ricochets through “Collected Poems,” the complete sentence yielding to a sequence of fragments. The grammar impedes the action, performing the “marriage Continue Reading →
Weekend 217.0
(1) Orchidelirium: Blooming on everything from fabric to fine china, orchids are the season’s most intoxicating flowers (WSJ) (2) Is it worth buying British bikes? (3) The Man Behind the Continue Reading →
Weekend 216.0
(1) How To Be Creative (WSJ) (2) The London Oratory (2a) @LondonOrat – “We must pray incessantly for the gift of perseverance.” (3) The Story of The Famous Poster – Continue Reading →
Weekend 214.0 (Almost)
(1) The scan is from The Art of the The Secret World of Arrietty. I can’t scan the entire book BUT will add the abandoned gazebo (not tea house) in Continue Reading →
Weekend 213.4 (Made in England)
I was in NYC on Saturday to demo and purchase a Brompton from NYCeWheels. I spent half the demo trying to fold and unfold the bike and probably looked like Continue Reading →
Weekend 211.1 (Man is the measure…)
“But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable Continue Reading →
Weekend 206.0
(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: Continue Reading →
Weekend 204.0 (“Better Brits Than Brussels”)
(1) 2021: The New Europe (WSJ) (1a) The Culture War Over Europe’s Money (WSJ) (1b) A sense of surrealism (Economist) (1c) A Point of View: The euro’s strange stories (BBC) Continue Reading →