Harry Styles Sketch and One Direction. Which is your favourite?
The 13 year old has finished her work and allowed me to photograph the final output. Which is your favourite image? Please vote and forward this on.
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The Devil in the Marshalsea
I rarely read the saturday review section of The Times. Today for a first for many reasons including an excellent book review of a book due out March 27th by Antonia Hodgson ” The Devil in the Marshalsea”. Amazon was visited and by 9.29 am the book had been ordered. What fascinated me was the topic of the book which is a story around a debtors prison in London in 1727. London then was ( and still is) a cruel place with institutions such as Newgate Jail and Bedlam operating at full capacity to lock those up whom we might treat today with some tolerance or pity even. These places were real then. The cruelty, the fraud, the back room conspiracies and the backhanders. Much of this sounds like what we might read in our papers in the news sections today. Not a lot has changed really.
There are a whole series of books based on “faction” that cover the history of the middle ages and later, C J Sansome is an example writing about Matthew Shardlake. Clearly there is an admixture of fact, learning,speculation and fiction, but broadly these books bring to live how life must have been for those in trouble in the 18th century and before.
Lets wait for March 27th and see if my impulsive purchase was a good option or not. I expect it is
Harry Styles – A Sketch
The 13 year old “artist-in-waiting” delayed completing her homework until 11pm tonight as was working on this sketch of the One Direction idol, Harry Styles. Although apparently not quite finished lets have a look at how it is shaping up. Enjoy and Share please.
London City Airport on balance is not too shabby but food is Uber expensive
Travelling regularly I now often try to use City airport rather than Heathrow. It is a small airport on the Docklands Light Railway and when full is a little uncomfortable. However travel times through the airport seem quicker, although fog can cause more chaos than at larger airports. The one aspect I do not like though are the incredible prices for food. This is an airport not a gourmet restaurant. Meals are effectively eaten in the corridors. Despite this main courses rise to £30 for quite mediocre type dishes. Not reasonable, not fair, not worth it.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Lives Here
The Stieg Larsson trilogy are some of the best books ever written. The main female character Liz Salander manages to become endearing and likeable despite some dubious personality traits. Recently in Stockholm I asked where she lived in the fictional story. These photos were taken in the general area and give some idea of the locality. Next time for me it will be one of the tours of all the places in the book. Strange but true.
Imber Court home to Met Police FC is a posh place
Even the linesman salutes when a goal is scored and a poor Cray Wanderers fan is escaping over the wall as his team loses 7-1
Met Police 7 Cray Wanderers 1
A rather one-sided Ryman premier game where the home side were 5-0 up at half time and the second half became damage limitation from Cray.
Football at Met Police Football Ground East Molesey
Met Police play their football in the Ryman Premier league and since their promotion from Ryman south a few seasons ago have been solid performers and have sometimes even threatened to reach the play-offs. Crowds are not massive and generally around 100-150. The ground however is one of the best in the Ryman League. You can see a whole series of photos on my website http://www.footballgroundz.co.uk but for those unfamiliar here are a few shots from yesterday.
What made me laugh a little was the guy who looks like he is trying to escape from the ground! Maybe he was a Cray fan as they lost 7-1
A Great Place
The rants and warblings of an active and some would say disturbed mind. A Brentford Fc supporter and a psychiatrist and photographer. Welcome to my musings and rants.
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