Pitzhanger

Sometimes it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive, my experience on Saturday morning. Eight stops to Ealing Broadway with Maigret to distract me; a destination I had hitherto not visited. Not worth a detour, as Michelin doesn’t say.

Easter Monday in Pictures

I am getting used to the horrid tower outside the bathroom window. That doesn’t mean I like it. The few scrawny, unhappy trees perched on the upper three terraces are pathetic.You can’t even see them in my picture.

Crab Apple

I lodged next door for a year in 1976 but I cannot remember if it was there. It was certainly there when I bought this house in 1984, 41 years ago.

Unroofed

In the 19th century when Barmeath was crenelated and castellated for ornamentation, a wing was added with rooms for servants, a kitchen, chapel, store rooms etc. There were cellars below. When I was a child it was called The Old Nurseries so I suppose children lived there too.

At Jacquemart-André

As you know, Charles Garnier won a competition to design the Opéra de Paris, rightly known today as the Palais Garnier. Henri Parent came second.