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Kenning

February 18, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We went to see The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover in The Landmark Theatre in Greenway Plaza in Houston. That was in 1989 and the Greenway Plaza was then the home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets. The cinema was more arthouse than mainstream which explains how we saw a Greenaway movie in a Greenway cinema in a place then better known for basketball. Romantic crime drama with cannibalism – just the thing for a brief respite from parenting when we parked our kids with the 5Es for a few hours (a great family with five kids whose names started with E).

The tower, the bathers, the isle and the freighter.
Yesterday, James Joyce’s Martello Tower, the Forty Foot bathers, the Muglins and passing freighter.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: houston rockets, new zealand, photo, poetry, seamus heaney, texas, travel, wellington

Sloane Square Breakfast

February 3, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

If you visited with us over a weekend while we lived in London, it’s likely that you joined us for breakfast in Colbert. It’s a restaurant that we often visited for breakfast but never went at any other meal times.

Peace descending on the Quadriga of War
atop Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner
Fuji X-T3 | MTO-11CA | 1600 mm | 1/4000s | f/10 | ISO 6400 | handheld (pano of 9 frames)
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: colbert, geology, street photography, walking, wellington

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