James Arnold

Ooh nice, not been there yet. Will have to visit there sometime. I do like to take a look round a cathedral when I can.

Aha! It's great isn't it. Amazing patterns.

Photo showing the 14th century stone vault ceiling of Exeter Cathedral.

Exeter Cathedral

For me I loved visiting the neighbourhoods. Getting about on the 'L' and listening to The Adventures of Augie March on an audiobook.

A hot air balloon floating by in the evening sky.

Floating by

Hahaha and a packet of ten too.

A duck with it's ducklings swimming on a river by a bridge

Ducklings on the River Test

I did enjoy one they had for the Forbidden City in Beijing narrated by Roger Moore. "Look at the ceiling, isn't it magnificent!".

Love the look of this, will check this out. Thanks for posting.

But on a gondola.

It's incredible isn't it.

It's such a great read.

Eddie said he was exhausted by the unremitting nursing duties, all the non-stop mollycoddling ('She was drinking and taking pills and passing out. She was constantly passing out') and for his sanity would have to leave in the morning. Taylor said, 'You're leaving in the morning? I'm leaving right now,' and swallowed a handful of Seconal. Eddie felt he couldn't do right for doing wrong: 'I was the one who had tried to stop her from killing herself, and that had made her so angry she had tried to kill herself.' He decided to go into hospital to have his appendix taken out – for no reason except being in hospital gave him reprieve from Taylor for a few days. The ruse only irritated her. She didn't like having to get up in the morning to pay Eddie a visit.

Reading Erotic Vagrancy by Roger Lewis and am blown away by what Elizabeth Taylor's then husband Eddie Fisher is going through to look after her.

Grey tabby cat taking an enormous yawn.

Yaawwn!

By water home, and so walk upon the leads, and in the dark there played upon my flageolette, it being a fine still evening, and so to supper and to bed.

Like the drummer of a 1970s prog rock band reunited at the bassist's funeral.

Visiting Salisbury?

Black and white photo of a man standing next to a model of a mushroom cloud.

The commandant of the Civil Defence Technical Training Centre in Quebec demonstrates the effect of an atomic bomb exploding over a city, Canada, 28th April 1952.

Hah yes, perhaps they repurposed Ringo from somebody else.

Black and white photo of a woman placing a wig on the wax figure of Ringo Starr of The Beatles. Wax figures of George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are next to them.

Madame Tussauds waxwork models of The Beatles, 24th April 1967.

I know I'll have to be careful when mowing the lawn now!

This is great - it comes back with such confidence.

A photo of Pope Francis stuck to the window of a Skoda Roomster.

Remembering the time I saw the Pope in the back of a Skoda in Alton station carpark.

Self serving

Transdimensionally at the libraremony.

Black and white photo of a man wearing a striped cardigan with what looks like a tea towel draped over his head.

Explorer Theodore Illion, demonstrating the headgear that he considers will best protect him during his expedition to Central Asia, in London on 16th April 1934. He claimed to have visited Tibet and discovered an underground city there. Though there are doubts that he ever went anywhere near Tibet.

This is a great listen. I had to go back and find the album, the inside sleeve has John's defaced army recruitment advert.