On Friday night last week I headed for the O2 arena in North Greenwich. For once I wasn’t there to ride the cable car! Fleetwood Mac were playing a show at the O2 and a firm my company does business with offered to take me and some others on hospitality. I’m going to confess now …
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Dorset with D800E, D600 and E-P5
I was lucky enough to spend last week in sunny (at least last week) Dorset, in Studland on the Isle (though not an Island, “just” a penisula) of Purbeck. It’s a very beautiful location, particularly in great weather. I’ve always enjoyed visiting, partly because of family holidays in the area but also because of a …
It all looks different from up here…
Today I was lucky enough to visit Coq D’Argent, a restaurant in the city on the roof garden of 1 Poultry in the City. 1 Poultry is perhaps one of the last buildings of the postmodernist architectural movement/style to be completed. It’s certainly striking, with its pink and yellow alternating limestone cladding. It has …
Venice Simplon Orient Express
A very nice trip on the Venice Simplon Orient Express for lunch. A bit silly, who takes a train that goes back to its original destination (don’t answer, all those who, like me, have got half way to the North West on a Virgin train only to return to London)…? This was a ride on …
Gigs
It’s that time of year again when blue flags come out and vast numbers of performers try their luck with the Mayor of London’s “Gigs” big busk competition.The Gigs busking competition has been running since 2009. Gigs takes place every year and is open to all Londoners aged 11 – 25, whatever musical style from …
Shoreditch Street Art with my X-Pro1 and Xf27mm
So it has been a funny old week in my new office, not a million miles away from Liverpool Street. We’ve had a dead mouse in a desk, builders playing a girder and spanner symphony across the road and a seemingly endless walk to the kitchen. It is however a considerable improvement on a building …
Bentley Speed 8 with my X100S
I came across this being displayed near where I work. It’s the Bentley that participated in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in the early noughties (though not the one that won in 2003, this is the one that came second). It’s a amazing looking car in the flesh. Taken with my Fujifilm X100S
Poppy Line and Sheringham: D800E and 28mm/50mm F1.8
The North Norfolk Railway which is also known as the “Poppy Line” – is a heritage (tourist) steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between Sheringham and Holt. It passes through the countryside to the east of Weybourne with views of its windmill. Each time we’ve been to Norfolk we’ve taken a ride on it. The …
Music In The Walled Garden
This Sunday I went to Forty Hall in Enfield, near where I live, to a musical event organised to raise funds for the planting of bee friendly plants and shrubs in the Walled Garden. We got there early, mindful that parking might be interesting later on… Forty Hall is a 17th century manor house and …
Overstrand with many cameras…
This post was to be christened “Overstrand and Poppyland”, but I realised as I was writing it that I had no decent photos of Poppys from our trip to Norfolk! This week I was on holidays in Overstrand. Overstrand is a village on the North Norfolk coast, between Cromer and Mundesley. It was once (or a …
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