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 →
Category Archives: England
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 →
Weekend 203.0
(1) How Lord British Inspired Anorak (2) England, My England (Never Having Been There) (WSJ) (2a) Do you know WHO went to London? Toast!
Weekend 193.0 (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
(1) Window of the World (2) FIAT Drive In (3) Ryōmō Line (3a) East Japan Railway Company (3b) Iwafune Station (3c) Tribute to Makoto Shinkai (Part III) (4) Tony Parsons Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.0
Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Continue Reading →