Category: london
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Pota park-to-park!
This time I was able to set up my station, enjoy sandwich (Ham! Coleslaw! Wholemeal bread!) sitting at a park bench. Better day today! Lots of activity, but lots of QSB. A lot of loud, clear stations running beams, 100W. 20M conditions were good, but signals fading a lot again. Stations from Germany (DL4VER field…
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The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as Belgian Refugees Memorial, is a war memorial on Victoria Embankment in London, opposite Cleopatra’s Needle. It was a gift from Belgium, as a mark of thanks for assistance given by the UK during the First World War, and in particular for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees who fled from…
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Spring is here!
“Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.Life is skittles and life is beer.I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.I do, don’t you? ‘course you do.”
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Yes minister at 40
You’d have gotten a kick out of this, Dad. Tonight the BFI had a special event for the 40th birthday of Yes Minister. They of had a screening of Yes Minister episode “Party Games” – in which Jim Hacker decides to run for leader of the party and makes a European issue part of his…
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London City Airport (test)
This is a test of the workflow: – take photo – upload it to Flickr via the mobile app – share the photo from the Flickr app to the WordPress app …to have it published on RunningWithBulls.com
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Ray of light
After a tumultuous week of political shenanigans, the sky provided some rays of light.
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The Eagle, Farringdon Road
If I won the lottery, and had £3 Million quid, I’d buy the Eagle, not change a thing, reserve a table for myself every night and eat a bife Ana sandwich every day. God bless them.
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Vote Democrobot
The first political party run by artificial intelligence. I suppose it can’t be any worse than what’s there now.
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Spring is here, A-suh-puh-ring is here
… “Life is skittles and life is beer I think the loveliest time Of the year is the spring I do, don’t you? ‘Course you do” … (Dave Lehrer, ‘Poisoning pigeons in the park’)
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Is that a Hockney?
Sitting in St. Pancras Station, waiting for the Eurostar. Drinking a hot chocolate (lumps of cocoa dropped into hot milk). Woman walks passed as I dreedle the last chocolate into the milk. “Very nice, is that a Hockney”, she says.
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. The photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945 — excerpt from Wikipedia page
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Ice Ice Bernard
This ice was formed on the surface of the canal during freezing weather.
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