We prepared this as a stand-by post....our household is in a bit of turmoil at present with one thing and another, and F had given me so many London postcards that I chopped them into a number of posts that we might use to fill gaps in the creative processes. Today it is blowing a 'hooley' outside but at least the sun is shining. F and Mr B are both afflicted with some kind of lingering lurgy (F well into her 5th week and getting really fed up with it all). A bloke has arrived to do painting on the joinery that I supervised last week. There will be a big 'reveal' next week I expect. Rail strikes are threatening to disrupt routine again from this week and the general mood around here is a bit glum. I have decided that my 'motorhome' conversion (Mark IV) is a good place to sleep in the sun while the humans sort themselves out.
Postcards:
Half a century or more ago London was known for its 'Peasoupers' - smog so dense you couldn't find your way home on a footpath. Coal fires contributed to the nasty combination of smoke and fog that so befuddled and endangered the lives of London's residents.
There are no coal fires today and fog, when it does manifest, tends to follow the River Thames. The photos below are taken along a street 1 block south of the Thames on a rare foggy/sunny morning. The first building you see stands sentry on the southern approach to Blackfriars Bridge.
Buildings with exo-skeletons are all the fashion it seems...
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| Heads in the clouds |
A juxtaposition of old and new.... One of our commenters mentioned something about the 'big smoke' in a comment a while back and our response got lost in our own SPAM folder, only resurfacing about 6 weeks later. Big smokes are really just a lot of small smokes close together. Remarkable though it might seem all these places are 'neighbourhoods' for the people who live there.
Oh - and THAT building again.
Hope everyone starts to feel better soon, Mr T.
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Keep an ey on them, Mr T, and make sure they get enough rest. Sounds like a miserable lurgy.
ReplyDeletethat foggy building at top and bottom is just AMAZING! i love it!!!! Yam says she has linger lurgy, hope all of you feel better soon.. Tigger, i to wondered if there were handlers who would abuse their dogs, but the first ones were way way back in time and despite what people say of better times, they were not. people were really mean, abuse of animals and women were not even a crime. makes me mad just tying this. you look so comfy and sweet in your sunshine box
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ReplyDeleteOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH Tigger mate... I am almost embarassed to admit how much these photos of fog and symmetry made me drool!!! That penultimate shot in pawtikular is lush, I tells ya, lush! (Photographically speaking.)
Oh I hadn't realised that F and Mr B also had a lurgy upon them. If it is deflating them of all sensible air such as the one I have, I admire them for operating at any level at all. You be sure to continue your medical snoopervision, 'kay? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
We hope that F and Mr B are feeling fully better soon, and meanwhile Gail always enjoys a virtual trip to the city she left nearly quarter of a century ago.
ReplyDeleteTigger, might be an idea to suggest to F that she takes a break from the bloggy world (just for a little time) so she recovers and gives Mr B lots of gentle hugs to ease his pain. We’ll be here when she returns fighting fit and fully recovered.
ReplyDeleteI hope your all feeling much better soon.
ReplyDeleteI hear your weather has gone back into winter mode so staying inside keeping warm is a good idea
Hugs to you all
Looks like a good spot looking out the window from his warm box. Hope you guys get better, plenty of rest and hibernation is needed.
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