• The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    Too Close To “Home”

    And St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington is treating 10 people, two of which are in a critical condition. Three of St Mary’s patients have been transferred to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s specialist burns unit, bringing the number there to four. A spokeswoman for Chelsea and Westminster said they were being assessed by a team of plastic surgeons. That’s a little disturbing. Paddington was “our” station and St Mary’s was just up the street from the Indian restaurant (Indus Delta) where we had our first dinner in London… when we felt we’d been welcomed by the city, and were totally ready…

  • Photos and Shutterblogs - The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    Tower Bridge

    towerbridge-thumb Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Another photo from the 2004 trip to Britain. I have to remember, until I figure out how to get the text to flow properly on photos posted from Flickr, that I need to write enough text to clear the bottom of the image, or the problem posed by having a floated image within a floated center column will keep screwing things up. I keep fiddling with the customized CSS at Flickr; images blogged from Flickr look great over at the Blogspot photoblog, but they’re are handled differently there (no CSS drop shadow) and the layout…

  • Make Poverty History

    St Paul’s

    So thanks then, terrorists. You’ve just succeeded in bringing the families of millions of Londoners that bit closer together, giving them an increased love of their city and an enhanced appreciation of their way of life. You might have destroyed the lives of several hundred people, but – and this is stating the bloody obvious you fuckwits – you’ve achieved nothing. My train goes through Kings Cross and my office is less than half a mile from three of the bombs, and how did it affect me and thousands like me? I had a longer walk to the station on…

  • Photos and Shutterblogs

    Union Jack raised at State Department, Washington DC

    Union Jack raised at State Department, Washington DC Originally uploaded by Antarctic Lemur. I may have to email this to Debbie in Washington. I don’t know if the Union Jack is being raised in place of the Stars and Stripes, or if it’s going up on a “guest of honor” type of flagpole. But if it’s the former, the alternate reality folks will get a kick out of it. I approve of the sentiment and hope these guys don’t catch any flak.