Tag: London

Cable Cars and Eurostars

Cable Cars and Eurostars

Reading Time: 3 minutes For a while, doubtless because Gordon does in one of the Thomas stories, my son has been asking to go to London. Of course the price of travel nowadays kind of precludes this as a random trip but needing to go down to Cambridge for 

Leeds to London

Leeds to London

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been sent down to London for a meeting with DCLG about Deposit Protection Services recently. This is possibly about the most boring subject in the world, but any excuse to go to That London I guess. I met a friend there this time, 

London Grime and Lights

London Grime and Lights

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve been down to London for work again, and as usual managed to blag my travel so I get a fair amount of time later in the day to take a look around. I’ve taken the opportunity again to have more of a wander round 

South Bank, Mostly

South Bank, Mostly

Reading Time: 3 minutes And again, I have got to go play round London. My love of food lead me again to Borough Market, as is typical, and I decided to walk further along the river this time. I’ve focussed a lot on looking up at the rooftops in 

Took a silly lens to London, and shot a few Squiggles

Took a silly lens to London, and shot a few Squiggles

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve just received a quite cool fisheye adapter which screws onto the front of my kit lens. Fisheye lenses tend to be those with a focal length of less than about 14mm (full frame) and come in two types – circular (which create a circular 

Exploring The Docklands

Exploring The Docklands

Reading Time: 4 minutes For this month’s London extravaganxa I decided to go out a bit further afield and take a trek out to Greenwich and the Docklands. A long time ago I went on a scout trip staying on the Lord Amory and remember a night walk including 

Cable Street and Other Riots

Cable Street and Other Riots

Reading Time: 3 minutes Back in London again. Meeting again on St Mary Axe I wandered past the Lloyds Building and Leadenhall Market. I was struck by this mkeshift protest memorial to Ian Tomlinson, the newpaper seller murdered (and I will state my opinion here) by the police recently. 

Mornington Crescent

Mornington Crescent

Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in London again. I recall when I was very young and even more obsessed with the Underground that I am now, making my poor father take me on every line – possibly harder now with more gates and barriers – during the course of 

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs

Reading Time: 2 minutes This months London adventure I went over to the Natural History Museum. This is somewhere I have been as a child (every dinosaur obsessed kids dream), so it was nice to see it again. I am upset that they have replaced the Diplodocus though. My 

That London

That London

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is very exciting. I have been asked to serve on a development user group for some software that we use at work, which is meaning some trips to London over the next year. And very kindly the company has agreed to book my return