Books Do Furnish A Room: Skyshape and Bristol fashion

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Monday, 16 July 2007

Skyshape and Bristol fashion

Last week, in my first post about walking around London, I shared a picture of the sky reflected in the glass wall of a modern office building. There were one or two kind comments, so I make so bold as to offer you a similar picture from Bristol, which I visited last week.

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As you are travelling with your camera, (and I know where you're going this week), here's a challenge: take a picture, if you have the opportunity to do so, of a boat bound for my homeland!

Posted by: Karen | Monday, 16 July 2007 at 08:10 PM

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Quotidian

Nothing is of greater consolation to the author of a novel than the disovery of readings he had not conceived but which are then prompted by his readers. (Umberto Eco, Reflections on The Name of the Rose)
... relatively few persons in London ... can afford the luxury of one or more servants. No fewer than 3,700,000 have no servants at all, and of the half million that have servants 227,000 have only one. (The Times, 6 June 1895)
Standing among savage scenery, the hotel offers stupendous revelations. There is a French widow in every bedroom, affording delightful prospects. (Tyrolean inn brochure, according to Gerard Hoffnung)
(A doctor is at an elderly relative's deathbed) "The old sawbones, eh?" he bellowed ... "Just in the nick, perhaps. Haul the old girl back by the short hairs, if you ask me. Devilish smart at his work ... Always take a fence with more confidence when I know he's out with us."
Too often, when a man of Monty Godkin's mental powers is plunged in thought, nothing happens at all. The machinery just whirs for a while, and that is the end of it. (P G Wodehouse, Heavy Weather)
...the breed that take their pleasures as Saint Laurence took his grid (Kipling, The Five nations)