Muse: Postcard from London: Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, May 25, 2012
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3/5 for effort. There are, not there is.
We didn't really need to know about your caramel nuts being burnt either.
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Never mind - you should enjoy my tale of ticket office extortion at Tate Britain today. I fucking didn't.
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While you're still in London, have you visited Senate House - the one made (in)famous by George Orwell?
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Very good, Craig! I can picture all of that, and it both makes me want to be there, and makes me want to run away from anything like the scene you paint.
ETA: Also, thank you for the postcard from Liverpool! It reminded me of a particular cultural experience there that is still blowing my mind a little. Not in a good way. -
Craig Ranapia, in reply to
While you’re still in London, have you visited Senate House – the one made (in)famous by George Orwell?
Rather hard to miss - staggered past on the way to the British Museum if that counts. Please expect months of wailing and gnashing of teeth over everything you couldn't possibly do in four days. It's the question: Do you do a lot of things on the trot. or swallow hard and decide to spend half and full days somewhere?
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Do you do a lot of things on the trot.
Fill your memory banks with colour. Sounds like you got good weather Craig.
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Jos,
Pics or it didn't happen
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Craig - you may already encountered this place, But sir John Soane's house is a treasure trove. Entry free. A host of antiquities (let us not enquire how obtained) and the use of colours from Etruscan tombs - all the rage when he was building.
He was an architect, and he had a thing about mirrors- well worth a couple of hours- -
Geoff Lealand, in reply to
The building that Hitler had earmarked for his London HQ? I had a temporary office on the 4th floor when I was on sabbatical in 2007. Creepy building!
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The last rays of the sun beautifully peep
Round The Eye the South Bank lion ignores stillA Waterloo Sunset? {also triggered because the original 'Lines Composed...' always puts me in mind of the song, and also because its magnificent]
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Bear in mind that the extortionate ticket prices for temporary exhibitions (and the ripoff restaurants etc) at the likes of Tate Modern, Tate Britain, National Gallery, V&A, British Museum etc etc, to a degree subsidise awesome and free permanent collections. You'd have trouble filling four weeks, let alone, four days. This year, I'm ignoring the temps.
And I concur: the Sir John Soane Museum is London's most fabulous hidden treasure. The Hogarth panels especially.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Bear in mind that the extortionate ticket prices for temporary exhibitions (and the ripoff restaurants etc) at the likes of Tate Modern, Tate Britain, National Gallery, V&A, British Museum etc etc, to a degree subsidise awesome and free permanent collections.
Sure - but what I got fucked off about was having a Gift Aid loading put on my ticket without being asked or having it explained to me. I'm going to de-spleen a post as soon as I've had dinner, but if they're pulling this on half the 3 million plus non-UK visitors to the Tate in 2009/10 (the last year figures are available) -- who can't actually benefit from the Gift Aid tax credit.... Well, it's one hell of a scam.
I was ready to rip the clerk a new arsehole until a thought passed my brain-rage barrier: You know, he's probably doing exactly what he was trained to. Gave him the gimlet eye instead, and suggested he look up "donation" on his tea break.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Please expect months of wailing and gnashing of teeth over everything you couldn't possibly do in four days. It's the question: Do you do a lot of things on the trot. or swallow hard and decide to spend half and full days somewhere?
I've heard it's also a bit like that in New York or Tokyo - 4 days is way too short. 4 days in Los Angeles, on the other hand...
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London demands poetry.
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"I’m sure there’s many things more fair:
The smell of burnt caramel nuts drift by
As gaggles of giggling chavs seek their destiny:
This City does, like a sweaty garment, wear."London has so many smells, all trying to break through. It's a cool poem. Well captured.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
4 days in Los Angeles, on the other hand...
Beats an hour in Palmerston North.
And Craig, thanks for the delightful postcard of you and David on a bike.
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As seen here.
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Jeremy Eade, in reply to
That's a picture of you and your dad man. Your Dad smoke and rode. Respect.
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Islander, in reply to
On an old situp&beg woman's step-through with half-chain guard too! Waua!
But - what is the contraption mounted on the front wheel? -
Jeremy Eade, in reply to
I wouldn't insure that guy.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Looks like a Solex motorised bike to me. I used to see them toodling around Christchurch,
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Islander, in reply to
The kid is kind of vulnerable to chain-mangling too-
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Looks like a Solex motorised bike to me. I used to see them toodling around Christchurch,
The one Solex pic I happen to have, from 2009 scooter run. Not made for hills.
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Jeremy Eade, in reply to
The english are crazy.
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Islander, in reply to
Not made for hills.
Nor anywhere else in ANZ except round v. flat ChChCh suburbs...
one of my brothers once made family history by running away to Oamaru (from North Beach!) on one - took him nearly a day & a half...And Jeremy Eade? You are __not__wrong!
It's a kind of crazy which doesnt afflict the dour-but-warm-heartedvengeful&cantankerous lot my Lanchashire forebears were - but sometimes I relish it...
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