Last Saturday we went wandering around London’s West End theatre districts photographing a number of the theatres dressed up for their current shows. We were armed with the theatreland map, in case of memory lapses, but we didn’t plan a meticulous route to take in as many as possible. We arrived by bus from Liverpool […]
Negative Interest Rates The following news snippet about negative interest rates made me sit up and think: A curious auction of German bonds this morning saw investors agree to negative interest rates, but more than half the debt was left unsold. The Bundesbank sold €1.17bn of 12-month bonds at a yield of -0.0184% (which means […]
There’s a Jade Horse figure at the British Museum, somewhere.. I went to The British Museum on Monday, which happened to be the first working day of the London 2012 Olympics, having first checked their website at http://www.britishmuseum.org/ , to make sure the North American Landscape Garden was still there. It was. We saw it. I […]
I live almost exactly 2 miles away from the London 2012 Olympic Games main stadium at Stratford, East London. So far, the main effect on my life has been to have watched the building of the iconic structures on the skyline. The Main Stadium, The Aquatic Centre and The Orbit Tower. I don’t have a car […]
The London Cable Car Crossing Opens According to “The Orbit Tower – London Cable Car” and other sources, a single fare across the Thames on the new London Cable Car opening on June 18th will cost £3.20 if you pay by Oystercard Pay-as-you-go. But they also have a special offer return trip non-stop bargain price of only […]
A steam train ran along the Gospel Oak to Barking branch of the London Overground today June 16th pulling vintage passenger coaches. I’m trying to find out more about it, as I’ve seen or heard this before. The sighting was near Woodgrange Park station heading West so it may have destined to switch tracks onto […]
Gloriana Royal Barge Updated The Royal Barge Gloriana was also used spectacularly in 2012 on the day of the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games, carrying the Olympic flame downstream along the Thames towards the Tower of London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19009236 The £1m royal barge Gloriana, which led the river pageant during the Diamond Jubilee in June, […]
We need to keep better tracking records for the various types of ongoing experiments that are constantly getting set up as part of daily online life. That’s a problem I’m trying to solve, and the aim may be to have an action logging app that covers this kind of documentation eventually, in order to manage […]
If your video camera operator (thanks to Linda) has turned their apparatus sideways, the resulting portrait styled video works better uploaded to facebook and embedded than it does on youTube As discovered over on http://andyroberts.me/havering-folk-club/the-rowan-tree-song-at-haverfolk-for-cloudstreet-guest-night
Seeing pictures of young Socialist Party supporters celebrating their Presidential Election victory in Paris at the Bastille, reminded me of the few occasions I visited the Bastille myself. Paul Beuscher la librairie musicale de Paris When I lived in Paris the only time I ever came out of the Metro at Bastille would have been […]