Monthly Archives: September 2012

The Lightmills of Leadenhall

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I was in Leadenhall Market grabbing my lunch this week and I wandered over to  the market stalls under the cupola. I had seen one particular stall before selling what I thought was glass ornaments. When I looked at them I realised they were Lightmills, otherwise known as a Crookes radiometer, which consists of an …

iPhone 5 vs X-Pro1

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This is an immensely silly post motivated by no more than having some fun. Of course the iPhone will be worse than a camera with an APS-C sensor, it has a sensor about the size of a grain of rice… Nevertheless this is a fun comparison to show people why a real camera is worthwhile …

Drone Wars

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On my way back from a Chiropractic Appointment of all places I came across a protest in front of Tower 42 (which many may know by its old name of the Natwest Tower). These days Natwest are long gone, the building is multi let and I’m led to believe one of the tenants is General …

Christ Church Spitalfields

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Yesterday, inspired by my walk past it the other day, I popped into Christ Church Spitalfields, the magnificent Church next to Spitalfields market. Christ Church was built under the Act of Parliament of 1711 which required the building of fifty new churches to serve the new populations on the fringes of London. The Act established …

Spitalfields Market

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Today at lunchtime I walked through the churchyard of St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate and then on to Spitalfields. Old Spitalfields Market is a covered market in Spitalfields, just outside the City of London. There has been a market on the site since 1638 when Charles I of England gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to …

Jaguar XJS

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It has rained pretty much all day today so all I’ve done is clean and clear junk from our back bedroom. I”ll be honest it didn’t look like a great day for photography. Having assembled a bag full of old books I took it over to the nearest charity book bank in a nearby Sainbury’s …

A walk past Rectory Farm

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So this old, dead farm is coming very firmly back to life. To those who haven’t seen my other posts on this topic, there was a derelict farm not far from where I live in Enfield, North London, which has been planted up as an arable farm and “brought back to life”. Yesterday we went …

St Matthew’s Day at the Guildhall

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This lunchtime I walked down to the London Guildhall to eat my lunch. When I arrived I could see some kind of event was in progress. Judging by the Rolls Royce limousines parked in the corner, the Lord Mayor was talking part. It turned out the event happening was the end of the annual St …

Freedom for Birth

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A post here on behalf of (and in support of) my OH, Louisa, who attended the Freedom for Birth screening in Dalston last night, organised by One World Birth. Louisa took my x-pro1 along and took some really great photos (IMO). It was followed by a discussion with the audience involving a midwife, a doula …