Picture the scene. It’s a grey, murky day. You have a seven-year-old child to entertain and your sister, who isn’t overly familiar with London, is making a rare visit to the UK from her home in the United States.
I took this image of the River Thames while walking across London Bridge a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t expect the image to work out, but I was very happy with the end result.
As half-term neared its end, we paid a family visit to Tower Bridge in London on Friday. Being something of an engineering geek, I was very keen to learn about the bridge’s construction and how it works.
I stumbled across a website the other day that got me reminiscing about my childhood. Rather amusingly, the article made reference to knitted dollies sitting on lavatory rolls. Apparently Northerners are more likely to remember these dolls but I clearly recall such an item at my grandmother’s house in the Home Counties. I think it’s
