Window within a window

Today

The cover of Southernmost Point Guest House poetry book has a picture of the window of the Geranium shop for the Blind in Walm Lane. As of today, a couple of copies were donated and you can see one of them in the window above. Hence "window in a window".

This kind of day

Today

2 pm

Yesterday 4 pm

Kensal Green station

Looking east

Chiltern line

Looking west northwest

Near Sudbury Hill

Red lantern Christmas decorations in Chinatown

Wardour Street

Another cash machine raid on the same block

Forensics at work

Shopfront completely smashed

Cash machine broken into

Today we find New Light Computer Sales and Services shop in Greenford Road near Sudbury Hill tube has been raided and the cash machine broken into. It is only three or four doors from the Post Office that was raided and smashed up in the same way for a cash machine as we reported here last month. A team of police including forensic investigation staff were on the scene when these pictures were taken today.

Capital City Academy multi-exposure

Sphagnum

Irish Film Festival London 2014

See IrishFilmFestivalLondon.com for programme, venues etc. Venues include the Tricycle Kilburn, the ICA, Clapham Picturehouse, Hackney Picturehouse and Europe House.

Three squibs

The Road Not Taken

On seeing two signposts pointing opposite ways to Edenderry,
one that said 8 miles and one that said 10


She bid me take her hither,
I bid her take me yon
But I being young would dither
And now she's taking John.

Down by Edenderry
Our rendezvous was set
But I went by the long road
And now she's with that get.

So listen all you geezers
On Erin's craggy coast
Always take the short cut
Or else your arse is toast.

.

Nearly Man

Ah me and Carmel Kavanagh from Navan
In a caravan in Cavan
Almost consummated our mirage.
Then a one night couldn't stand
With Anna from Knockananna
In Banna sur la Plage.
I nearly humped Dymphna from Crumlin though,
On a drumlin near Drumshanbo
But never knowingly akimbo,
She dumped me at Crimbo,
Which ruined my image
In Kimmage.

.

He wishes for the green and silver bits

After WBY

Had I the heavens’ embroidered circuitboards,
Enwrought with silver of solder and flux
The boolean half charge of decision scores,
Resistors and matrices of maybes and mux,
I’d encrypt there the tales of Arabia for you.
But I being poor have only my wee jests;
Tread softly because you tread on my jesticles.

.

-- Stephen Moran

John Lewis Christmas advert

This is really lovely. A lot better than the one last year. Full marks to JLP for carrying on this tradition of theirs and for being a workers' co-operative, of course, and a great shop. And a John Lennon song to go with it.

Sudbury Hill Harrow

Harrow Cricket Club fireworks 2014

Waiting for the show to start

Snaps can't do justice to the spectacular display.

Harrow Cricket Club.

The fireworks were good but I didn't think much of the crappy music. And while we were waiting, the hundreds of kids and toddlers rushing around having great fun were bombarded with horrible lyrics in some songs, one of which I found particularly annoying with such lines as "I'm your lover, I'm not your fucking mother." I suppose kids have to get used to that sort of thing now, but really tacky DJ-ing, to say the very least, given the audience.

Ossian

Saturday walk

Grove Farm nature reserve

Grove Farm (2)

Grove Farm (3)

Grove Farm (4)

Grove Farm (5) dry rill

Grove Farm (6) with Kellogg tower in the distance, mid-left

Wood End Lane (1)

Wood End Lane (2)

Wood End Gardens (1)

Wood End Gardens (2)

Wood End Gardens (3)

Wood End Road

About Grove Farm nature reserve (Wikipedia)

Proceedings of the Commitee for Hopeless Love

Shall we take the previous minutes as read?
And the hours when morning brightened
To a day in the heart, out of mind, hot
With reckless words and shared heartbeats.

Our secretary sends his apologies, he's
Incapacitated by remorse and melancholia
After that joke that fell flat in the pub.
The first order of business is chemistry,

And Doctor Lezard has supplied the pills.
It's blue for warm and white for cool.
(Do let us know how you get on.)
Plans for the next event are already in hand.

And don't forget your longings and regrets,
Because you'll have the nights all to yourself.

--
Stephen Moran

Funfair poster

In Roundwood Park 25th October to 5th November 2014

Book exchange, Sudbury Hill station

Take one, leave one.

"Every morning Monday to Friday 6:30 to 10:30"

Bestco

322-324 Kilburn High Road, NW6 2QN

Uchida/Mozart

Shaman Uchida summons the genius, conducts not just the orchestra but acts as a lightning conductor bringing the sounds to earth.

When she plays the piano, every note is made to count, even the very rapid twinkling notes that abound. There is never any definition lost.

I love the way at the end when she comes back for her curtain call, the orchestra refuses to stand up as she pleads with them to share the applause, leaving it all for her and she bows to them. Then after she has received a bouquet, she asks them again and they stand up.

Cures all

Mozart: Concerto for flute and harp, K.299 - Coles, Yoshino, Menuhin

Witchy window

Flower Nest florists, 149 Greenford Road, HA1 3QN. Amsterdam has its...never mind. http://www.flowernest.com/

This is where all the messages come from

They are sent from underground, by whom we do not know.

The season of dark evenings

Fireworks display 2014 - 1st November

 

Open to the public. Tickets: adult £4, child £3. Full details link. And here is a video they made last year, which makes it look good fun.

Telegraph pole - Wood End Gardens

4 x 3 with contrail cross above

16 x 9 (1) same pole

16 x 9 (2)