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The ups and downs of Oscar
If you type “Oscar” into the bit under where it says “SEARCH” on the left, you will find your way to lots of good photos of Oscar, the cat of GodDaughter2’s family who live in the South of France....
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Waves reflected on the side of a boat in Belle Isle
Having the previous day taken off from London City Airport, I am in Belle Isle, off the coast of Brittany. It is the summer of 2014. The light is especially strong. I notice some reflections: If I had...
View ArticleSteve Stewart-Williams on the evolution of the Breton fishing boat
I finished reading The Ape That Understood The Universe about a week ago now, but there is one further bit from this book that I want to scan into this blog, because I think it is my absolute...
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The Airbus A390 “Clickbait”– etc.
Indeed: I encountered this glorious airplane on Twitter, but just now Twitter is refusing to load onto my computer, for some idiot reason to do with me refusing to update or generally do as commanded,...
View ArticleOn how the English revolutionary ideology of improvement took its time
During a recent conversation that Patrick Crozier and I recorded (although as always Patrick did all the button-pushing and editing), about how the Industrial Revolution came about, Patrick asked a...
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Oscar on roof patrol
Friday being my day for non-human creatures, Good Friday is a good day for a good non-human creature. So here, again, is Oscar: Master of all he surveys, in a small town in the South of France, at the...
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Invisible Oscar
Oscar, the cat of GodDaughter2’s parental home down in the South of France, is a favourite object of photographic devotion here, and on the right there, the latest Oscar photo, from GD2D, showing him...
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“587 tall buildings in the pipeline in London …”
This fake photo appears at the top of a piece about new building in London, this being how Nine Elms is about to look: If you regularly travel by helicopter anyway. Also adorning the same piece is this...
View ArticleToday Patrick and I had another conversation about World War One
We had already decided that our chat today would be about what kicked off World War One. However, as part of my homework for this, I listened again to this earlier conversation we recorded about World...
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Castelnou
Castelnou is a small and impossibly picturesque hill town in the lower reaches of the Pyrenees, in the far south of France. GodDaughter2’s parents and I went by car, just over five years ago now, in...
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