a.m. on a Sunday morning and I bound out of bed. The sun is shining! Without showering, I dress in layers and head out into the blue, cold and brisk, but nonetheless the sun is shining today. Heading into Hyde Park at the top of my street, I’m alone except for the birds singing. …
he RAC Club has been operating on Pall Mall since 1897. The Club was a quintessentially British establishment; an all male bastion until about twenty years ago. Eddy, a long-time member of the Club is our host this evening. We eat like Kings in the Great Gallery Restaurant, with its golden wall ornamentation, …
have no complaints as I walk home in the London drizzle this afternoon. I’ve long learned not to rely on sunshine alone to seek out things of beauty. (Although tell me that when I’m in the mountains or at the sea with my mind set on some photo opportunity or other in particular!) …
Would u believe I have sunshine in Scotland today? Well, for some of the time. Why am I relating what I see walking the streets of Glasgow today to Rangoon, in Burma where I visited earlier this year? Rangoon, a far-flung outpost of the British Empire, was surprising not only with its 19th century buildings …