Welcome to Brian Micklethwait’s New Blog
Yes, welcome. I’ve already shovelled quite a few postings from the old blog to here (see below), and I now intend that many more will follow (so that if I refer back to an old posting, you won’t have...
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One thing here every day? – Probably Yes (and cranes)
Yes. At the Old Blog, I followed the rule of One Item Here Every Day, pretty much for as long as I can remember, and it worked. Not in the sense that every item was of stellar interest and quality. Far...
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Beside the Thames at Laleham
Laleham is a place beside the River Thames, just south of Staines. I grew up a bit beyond Egham, which is the next station on the Reading Line from Staines. But I don’t recall ever going to Laleham....
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Horizontalising a toy train photo
My excuse for inviting myself to visit Rob and his family last Sunday was to check out the toy trains I’d given to them. For years, I had been keeping this stash of toy trains. So, when I heard that...
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Gallery means that you decide
One of the many things I love about this new WordPress blog of mine is that I can now do things like this …: … a lot more quickly. Thank you “Gallery”. All of the above photos were taken within a few...
View ArticleA slight interruption
Earlier this evening, at around 7pm London time, there was a brief interruption of service here, lasting around ten to fifteen minutes. This happened during the process of updating the security...
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Paris photographique
At the old blog, it was quota photos. Now it’s quota galleries, because they’re so easy to do (at least compared to how hard they used to be to do). And just as I didn’t expect you to expend any more...
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Some housekeeping
Yes, following on from yesterday’s cricket dramas, the mundane matter of how photos look, here, on this blog. You will recall that last week, GodDaughter2’s Sister and I were wandering about in London....
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Hot
The weather forecast for London at 9am today: Don’t be surprised if there is no more here today. In fact, be rather surprised if there is.
View ArticleDrones replacing sheepdogs (and some embedded video about this)
This is the first time I’ve tried embedding a bit of video in this blog. Let’s see how this works: Seems to have worked. Another major improvement of this blog over the old one, especially important...
View ArticleThe soul of this blog will be transmigrating this evening
Yes. Some new sort of payment system means that this blog needs to go to a different server, or something. This shouldn’t affect all of you, but it will mean that this evening I will at some point be...
View ArticlePause over
I am happy to report that the transmigration referred to earlier has now, it would seem, happened. Because, I am now allowed to put stuff up here again. The pause lasted longer (longer enough to break...
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Tasting the sunshine out east last August
Yes, last summer I went on several exeditions to such places as the Dome, and beyond. Here is a clutch of photos I photoed in the beyond category. On August 11th, I journeyed to the Dome, then took the...
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Tardy tardigrade posting
Friday is my day for Other creatures postings, and you could hardly get more othery than this: So, I did a posting about this very othery creature, which is called a “tardigrade”, and I thought I had...
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Photo-uploading problems
For some mysterious reason, I am having problems uploading photos. Have I reached some sort of limit? One of the photos I tried to upload was a photo of a famous painting. Did WordPress recognise the...
View ArticleMisery me
I don’t have many engagements, but I had a couple lined up for tomorrow, and I just cancelled both. Flu, I think. Worse, that particular sort of flu that means that when I cough, the whole of my head...
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Churchill War Rooms gallery
One of the nice things about people coming to stay is that you often find yourself visiting touristy but interesting things that you’d never quite get around to seeing on your own. Later, maybe, but...
View ArticlePossible interruptions of service
For the next week or so I will enthusiastically be doing something else, which means that there may be interruptions to blogging here. The something-each-day rule may be set aside. It may not be. But,...
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I have been in France
I have indeed. Been in France. I didn’t tell you, my readers, because I did not wish London’s criminal community to be aware that, if they wished to plunder my home, the last week would have been the...
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