A Weekend Diary

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01 Jul 2013

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A visit to the Royal Free…

A power cut in Hampstead High Street this afternoon…

Founded in 1828 evidently…and when taking this a security guard advised me photography wasn’t allowed in the Hospital 😉

The front entrance to The Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London NW3

A great piece of modern sculpture outside the hospital, with Pond Street beyond…

The Roebuck pub, in Pond Street, opposite the hospital…

Rosslyn Hill, NW3, off which Pond Street lies…

On the way back to Hampstead Tube station, this is the southern end of Hampstead High Street…

Flask Walk, off Hampstead High Street…

Inside The Flask pub, a welcome pint of Guinness ;)…

Ballards Lane, North Finchley, and the Pitman’s here, is where, in one of its previous incarnations, I met my partner some ten years ago ;)…

Posted in London and tagged contre-jour, Flask Walk, Hampstead High Street, Rosslyn Hill, The Flask, The Roebuck, The Royal Free Hospital

03 Jun 2013

Mostly Gosport…

I’m not really into cars…but occasionally one catches my eye…like this one in North Finchley High Road last Saturday morning…

A figurine and keying…Southsea yesterday

A friendly horse in Cartwright Drive, Titchfield, at lunchtime today…

Looking towards Gosport High Street, contre-jour, early evening today…

In a Gosport flowerbed, by the waterfront…

Gosport waterfront, with Portsmouth beyond…

Another view, with the Gosport Ferry, ‘Queen of Portsmouth’ crossing the water…

By Haslar Marina, Gosport, with a very relaxed fisherman ;)…

HMS Haslar, in Haslar Marina

Touching tribute… on a waterfront bench near Haslar Marina

‘The Gosport Queen’…after 6.30 pm, only one ferry is used for the crossing to Portsmouth, four trips an hour. During the day, it’s two ferries, and eight trips an hour…

Daedalus…near Gosport waterfront…

Posted in Gosport, Hampshire, Southsea and tagged Cartwright Drive, contre-jour, Daedalus, Gosport waterfront, Haslar Marina, HMS Haslar, horse, macro flower, North Finchley High Road, silhouette, Spinnaker Tower | Leave a comment

17 Feb 2013

Southsea on a sunny Sunday afternoon…

Approaching Canoe Lake, near Southsea seafront…

[ISO 160, 5mm, f3.4, 1/500, AWB]

Canoe Lake, Southsea, from beneath the shade of a tree

[ISO 160, 16mm, f4.5, 1/1000, AWB]

A swan, one of many on Canoe Lake…

[ISO 160, 21mm, f4.5, 1/1000, AWB]

The Swan

This laboring of ours with all that remains undone,
as if still bound to it,
is like the lumbering gait of the swan.

And then our dying—releasing ourselves
from the very ground on which we stood—
is like the way he hesitantly lowers himself

into the water. It gently receives him,
and, gladly yielding, flows back beneath him,
as wave follows wave,
while he, now wholly serene and sure,
with regal composure,
allows himself to glide.

(translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows)

Rainer Maria Rilke