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A Diary Entry

Tuesday, 8th January 2019. 8.15 Have coffee and yogurt listening to the Today programme and checking the stock market. This is a waste of time as I hardly ever buy or sell anything. Send out blog bulk e mail. 10.00 Read more of Stalin’s Englishman. Burgess is now living in exile in Moscow but seeing… Continue reading A Diary Entry

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Dee Time

St Mary the Virgin in Mortlake was built in 1543, replacing a 14th century church closer to the river on the site of what was a 20th century brewery and is 21st century flats.

English Baroque

Butterwick House in Hammersmith was built in the early 1700s by one Edward Ferne who added a wing for his mistress, an actress. 

NFN

Across the road from the site of the Mortlake Tapestry Works is St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake. I finally took a look inside on Monday.

From Alperton to Paddington

How do you first see a city? Arriving at Venice’s Santa Lucia station and stepping out onto broad steps leading down to the Grand Canal is hard to beat. Yesterday I walked to London along the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Cold Snap

The weather has suddenly got colder. It will be 4 C tomorrow and raining. So I’m having the outside of the house painted.

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Castles in the Air

This is the view from the top floor looking north. The futuristic office building on the left is The Ark. To the right, the chocolate and white striped building is a Novotel.

Wash Doctors

Never buy or sell anything on the doorstep. This rule has served me well in the past but rules are made to be broken. Wash Doctors knocked on the door and hooked me.

From Sewage to Senile Treatment

In between Mortlake and Kew by the towpath there is a substantial plant that was used by Thames Water to treat sewage. It’s proper name is a biothane plane but that needn’t concern us as it shut in 2015.

More Tales from the Riverbank

The application (see Wind in the Willows) by developer, St George, to fell the willow tree in front of their flats at Fulham Reach was withdrawn. There was much opposition including a well-reasoned submission by a reader here, who knows more about trees than I do.