Dead; not my corner of the internet – this is just pining for the fjords, but my poor walking boots. A couple of thousand miles. Five countries. Three-and-a-bit years. Three mountain ranges. Two continents. One dead pair of walking boots. Spending the Royal Wedding bank holiday wandering around the Scottish Highlands including Ben Nevis finally …
Category Archives: London
London Wetland Centre
At a visit to the LWC today, I saw a heron stalk, catch and eat a mouse-thing. Luckily I had the camera. The Stalking. The Catch. The Payoff. And swallow.
The rarely seen.
After a long relaxing weekend in Germany, it’s best to ease yourself back into work gently. What better way to do this than to take advantage of contacts and go on a guided tour of the Royal London Hospital museum and medical school samples collection? The tour had been arranged just over two months ago, …
Fire
No pictures from the archives this week, mainly because I’ve misplaced the box full of photographs. Instead, here is a rather poor shot of the fire in Stratford earlier today. As seen from about two miles away at Mile End about an hour after it started.
Nutters on the tube
The paragon of comfort and convenience that is the London Underground plays host to a fair number of oddballs, weirdoes and downright nut-cases. These mainly inhabit the central portions of the network. Unfortunately, living as I do, out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy out …