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Back in March I showed the Toilet Gallery and mentioned the art exhibition around the theme of the famous HMV Records "dog listening to gramophone logo" which features the faithful Nipper.
It took some time and a small amount of effort, but at last I have discovered the site of Nipper's grave. It's down inside there - through the entrance archway between the shops. Tomorrow I'll show you. Meanwhile, enjoy a photo of a street of shops in Kingston upon Thames. Jilly in Menton loves dogs and wanted to see a photo of his grave. Keep looking, Jilly!
A clear sign of a healthy River Thames at Kingston. The proud fisherman displays his catch for a photograph before returning it to the river. The fish fought hard, and an excited crowd gathered to watch the show.
What can one do? At 10.30 the photographer sets off under brilliant, clear blue skies with one or two small, pure white clouds and bright sunshine, intending to get some "Kingston beside the Thames in the sunshine". By 13.20 this is what you have. A cool, in fact slightly too cool, wind and a sky like a tub of molten lead. There are in fact about three layers of cloud, from low down stretching to high, all guaranteed to make it really grey!! By the way, that's Queen Victoria up front of the market hall - no doubt thinking that this is an Indian monsoon developing.
Down there, at Shannon Corner, underneath the A3 Kingston Bypass lurks a piece of Americana. The Bar Fly ventured out alone at a lateish hour on a wet grey mid-summer English evening to survey the character of Shannon Corner at night and specifically to sample Krispy Kreme. He got a free doughnut added to his order so came away delighted, heavilly fortified by a massive sugar-rush and caffeine-high.
The doughnut style of the central light fitting pleased him, as did the excellent "daylight balanced" lighting which suited the camera and produced a nice fondant effect for a sugary photo.
The tree at the bottom of my garden.
I couldn't resist posting this image of Ham House, taken yesterday. It's a view captured by hundreds of visitors, but this one is remarkable for the lighting. It's high noon. The June sun is high behind the house above the white flag pole. This is the front which looks due North. A massive bank of thick battleship grey cloud has driven across the whole sky, blocking and filtering the strong sunlight to produce a remarkable lighting effect which the camera has managed to capture. Shortly after, the cloud moved away, the sun re-appeared, and the scene became ordinary.
The effect is quite powerful. (And.......looking at this I still can't believe it was built 400 years ago in 1610.)
