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Pyramid at the Louvre, Paris
January 28, 2012 – 12:17 pm
A picture from a couple of years ago, very late one night on the way back from dinner. The Louvre is swamped with tourists during the day, which doesn’t make for good photos. Come back late, though, and it’s deserted, as everyone has headed off in search of dinner and nightlife. You have the place [...]
Tollesbury, Essex
January 20, 2012 – 1:29 pm
Down by the water there’s an open air bathing pool, deserted at this time of year…
Blackout
January 18, 2012 – 2:40 pm
In case you were wondering why Wikipedia and a host of other sites are blacked out today… you owe it to yourself to watch this short video.
Lay back and think of Germany…
January 13, 2012 – 9:03 am
This is from the Telegraph: A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year…. Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced [...]
Glass silos at Autostadt
January 8, 2012 – 3:25 pm
Autostadt is a park surrounding the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. We went there just before Christmas. These two glass silos may be technical, architecturally impressive bling, but they are more or a proper business tool than the attractions that surround them. From Wikipedia: There are two 60 meter/200 ft tall glass silos used as [...]
Happy secular festival
December 24, 2011 – 11:47 am
The Christmas branch is up and adorned. The presents are wrapped. 40 pieces of shortbread, baked and ready to give to the neighbours. Just about the only thing I’ve not been able to do is buy a religious Christmas card. I only need one; the rest of my cards were stencilled stars and winter scenes, [...]
On Europe, Britain and saving the euro
December 11, 2011 – 9:55 pm
From Andrew Rawnsley in The Guardian: Even Eurosceptics will soon find that there is nothing splendid about isolation. Our capacity to shape the future of the world’s wealthiest economic bloc, which is also our most important export market, has just been dramatically diminished. This will have consequences not just for Britain’s influence in Europe, but [...]