robinray's PhotoBlog

Curiosity

2009-10-05T22:12:29Z

Ealing Studios Under Snow

2009-09-22T01:59:10Z

Last winter. That night...

Henry Moore-alike

2009-09-19T00:20:05Z

Paradis sauvages it says on Alex's teacup.

Ironic

2009-07-04T15:06:42Z

Ealing Studios being upgraded into the 20th century via the Iron Age...

At last! Proof cats levitate!

2009-06-16T14:39:47Z

Well, not levitate exactly. But walk up walls. Or fences at any rate. Either that or the Prince of Darkness is out and about.

Three months... what a difference

2009-05-18T16:10:47Z

The Witty Divorcee

2008-10-02T11:44:57Z

According to the law firm Pannone, the rate of inquiries by wives into husbands’ assets has risen threefold during the credit crunch, and no doubt some wives want to quit while they’re ahead. Here's one who already did it...

The Travis Buckle of the Feathered World

2008-09-30T18:24:39Z

The Millennium Seed Bank is worth a visit; Kew Gardens on steroids. And here are two of its quite unalarmed, even positively aggressive, inhabitants. The talking pheasant had Robert de Niro off to a T, and the duck kindly posed by a sign saying 'Humpty Dumpty' as if it was trying to convey a message. Sorry the photo isn't clear enough to read it...

When IS Caturday?

2008-08-08T15:38:38Z

So few fine days this year; enough to make a cat cross. As you see. But horses evidently like children, and my missus and youngest offspring clearly like the Dudwell stream that runs through, and annually floods, Rudyard Kipling's Lower River Field at his gorgeous house Bateman's in East Sussex. The field features in the poet's 'The Land': When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him Hobdenius - a Briton of the Clay, Saying: "What about that River-piece for layin' in to hay?" The rest is, IMHO, worth spending a few moments reading for the sheer English history of it, even though it's by Kipling. Do you like Kipling? I don't know, I've never kippled. The old ones are the old ones eh what? Not up to RoberttheBob, mind you.

Train across Europe

2008-05-25T04:15:53Z

From the rich green of a nice wet English summer across Europe to Berlin and back again. Ah... that night train from Paris, full of mysterious Greta Garbo women in furs sans knickers, probably, with long cigarette holders - just the holders, they couldn't smoke except in 5 sq yards of the bar - and the Oz lady with her 20 year old niece in the next compartment... huh!... that was their cover. Doubtless spies for somewhere or other. Then Berlin, city of the grim and the sans souci, Amsterdam, Venice of the North sans gondolas, The Grand Place Brussels at night avec moules et frites and back to Paris and that amazing Train Bleu restaurant... highlight of 2007 (floats away in state of ecstacy)...