I recently mentioned being stopped by the police on Baggot Street in Dublin. It’s happened again.
Repurposed old iron nails from the repaired roof.
Life Long Suffering
Repurposed old iron nails from the repaired roof.
Archives for January 2021
Repurposed old iron nails from the repaired roof.
Cautionary Approaches
One of my school teachers used to tell a cautionary tale about a pedestrian who was killed when caught on a road at the bottom of a hill. He’d stepped between the lights of two oncoming bicycles. We were twelve or thirteen years old and not everyone in the class understood the silly joke.
Paint: One Thought Leads To Another
It’s been time to paint the inside of the house. Linear measures, height by breadth give the area and from that you need to estimate the volume of paint. The realities of inexperience regarding surface absorption rates kicks in. One litre covered four square metres of a garden shed last year. One litre of varnish did two coats of a bench. One litre of undercoat will cover fifteen square metres inside the house.
Noticed on a walk across the South Downs in 2010.
Sleeping Beauty
A sleeping beauty is an article or paper whose recognition is delayed for several years after publication. In science, a sleeping beauty is generally defined as an article whose ‘citation history exhibits a long hibernation period followed by a sudden spike of popularity.’
Collective Responsibility
A fire killed 27 in a nightclub, injuring many more. Yet the death toll was 64. Then a sports newspaper investigated the circumstances of the fire and found government corruption on a mind-numbing scale. How come it was a sports newspaper? How did they have the resources to do it? How did their management approve it?
Coventry Cathedral © Simon Robinson 2019
Fuji X-T3 | Fuji XF18-55 F2.8-4 R LM OIS | 42 mm | 1/6s | f/5.6 | ISO 160 | handheld1
Travel Excuses
Back when we were free to travel, the simplest of reasons might have been sufficient for us to set out. Leinster Rugby off to play in Castres? Let’s visit Albi, the Toulouse Lautrec Museum and see the game in Castres. We’ll make a proper weekend of it. Such was the opportunity we took this date four years ago.
Canon 1D-X | Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM | 175 mm | 1/6400s | f/4 | ISO 320 | handheld