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Despotism and Contagion

August 8, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

Saturday was another busy day in our ongoing limited isolation.

Breakfast was depressing. Our granola and coffee were excellent and the eating of them a luxury afforded more by ongoing luck than planning.

It was the continuing bad news of the devastation and the absence of leadership in Beirut that was upsetting. It was like watching a rerun of the clean-up after Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana. That was another disaster accompanied by excellent meals for remote observers. Unless I’m wrong to believe that many of us consume our news at meal times.

Reading bench (after Lutyens).
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: beirut, booklink, david walliams, lutyens, pandemic, paolo giordano, photos, sahel, walking

India and Illness

March 12, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

12 March 2020 – 07:11 GMT – 3°C Mostly Sunny – Co. Dublin, Ireland

I found a travel book on the beside table in a friend’s house. We were visiting Offaly where another guest had left it behind, judging from the stamped but unsent postcard bookmark. I read the first chapter and was hooked. How could you not become fascinated by the rescue of a gay leper? Or want to know more about an immortal Yogi? And my architectural hero Lutyens features in the story when in Delhi.

A great birthday card from the grandkids
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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, cancer, india, lutyens, manchán magan, walking

Architecture

March 4, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

4 Mar 2020 – noon GMT – 7°C Partly Cloudy – Co. Dublin, Ireland

I started looking for places that we might visit that had been designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens. There are a few candidates, the most likely being war memorials. Thiepval may be possible from Péronne on the Somme itself where we’ll be taking a day off after 34 days on the road.

I was lucky to have had many opportunities to visit and stay in the home of a family friend, a home designed by Edwin Lutyens. Through those experiences, I came to appreciate the benefit of absolute control in design. Architect designed bannisters, door handles and chairs are not just accessories, their presence transcend the generations, preserving the original ideas for a very long time.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: cenotaph, hugh lane gallery, lutyens, thiepval, war memorial, ww1

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