Weekend 515.0
Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station by Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) Snow falls in the buffet of Aldersgate station,Soot hangs in the tunnel in clouds of steam.City of Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Poetry
Weekend 513.0 (You, moonlight, you’re my starlight)
“But you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are createdOf every creature’s best.”– William Shakespeare (1) Ward-Prowse nets for England (2) Essential London Sites (2a) Tube, Overground, TfL Rail, Continue Reading →
Weekend 510.1
Beautiful prose from Love in a Valley by John Betjeman: And me to lonely shopping in a brilliant arcade;Firm hand, fond hand, switch the giddy engine!So for us a last Continue Reading →
Weekend 509.0
(1) Sir John Betjeman reads “Norfolk” (1954) – his poem about lost innocence.
Dover via Canterbury
At Dover CliffsScarce hear the surge that has for ages beat,Sure many a lonely wanderer has stood;And whilst the lifted murmur met his ear,And o’er the distant billows the still Continue Reading →
Weekend 467.0
(1) A quote from Brick: A Social History by Carolyne Haynes: “Bricks do not stand alone, they work best with a sticky material to bind them together. So, wound into Continue Reading →
Weekend 456.0
“It is a difficult and rare virtue to mean what we say, to love without dissimulation, to think no evil, to bear no grudge, to be free from selfishness, to Continue Reading →
Weekend 445.0 (Terminus)
(1) A quote from Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami: “In that sense, Seiji Ozawa is simultaneously an unschooled ‘child of nature’ and a fountain of deep, practical wisdom; a Continue Reading →
Weekend 433.0
(1) A cool link between Nolan Bushnell and Retta Scott. The quote is from They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Musical Years (The 1940s – Part Continue Reading →
Bermuda (Devil’s Isle), Part 3 of 3
Day 5 After a proper English breakfast in the clubhouse we departed for the Crystal Caves in Hamilton Parish. The caves were discovered in 1908 by two boys in search Continue Reading →