Friday 18 April 2014

Easter Wishes - Love and Peace




Happy Easter. 
Flowers and eggs, love and peace.

Let's try for peace.  
If every ordinary person wanted peace, the governments couldn't warmonger.








Monday 7 April 2014

Books and Life: Books on Billboards

Amazing and clever.



Books and Life: Books on Billboards: I thought the authors featured at Look 4 Books would like to see how their book covers would look on a billboard. Here are a few I ...

Thursday 3 April 2014

Saharan dust ‘very high’ air pollution warning in London

What a difference a day makes. 
 "Saharan dust prompts ‘very high’ air pollution warning." Or London in Victorian times.


St. Paul's Cathedral April 3, 2014

A Magnificent View of London from The Shard

I had a FAB time in London yesterday. My friend Valerie is full of surprises. "Let's go somewhere nice for lunch to celebrate out birthdays," she said. (Mine was last week and Val's is next week.) "Let's go to the Oblix." Fine by me, I thought, I didn't know it, but Val knows some nice places, so... Nice? When we arrived at London Bridge and she pointed to The Shard I almost fainted. The Oblix restaurant is on the 32nd Floor and has the most spectacular views over my favourite city. The wine was lovely, the food was delicious, and waiters were good looking. Ooops! I meant the service was very good. And when we finished eating a young waiter filled our glasses and suggested we might like to drink our wine at a table by the window. We'd already quaffed our wine.  What he had given us, while we relaxed and took in the view, was complimentary.

The Shard


Here are some of the views from the oblix restaurant on level 32.

Tower Bridge


St. Paul's Cathedral 


The Mobile and The Gherkin


A working barge on the Thames. PO Tower in the distance 
- and a view across London all the way to Primrose Hill


Me sitting in the bar looking at the view of



Parliament and Big Ben in the distance