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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, November 26, 2022

A is for And so to London - Pleasant Walk Across the River

No, no a toy soldier in sight, but I did purchase a few bits along the way which will be in the final post! After the disappointment of Forbidden Planet, I moseyed-down to - and over - the river at the Golden Jubilee bridge, across Trafalgar Square, skirting Whitehall and shooting a few shots of things which caught my eye.

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
Something going on inn the Vietnamese quarter?
 
Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;

Nigerian (above) and South Korean Embassies (here) flying at half-mast for the late Queen Elizabeth II, the whole of that part of the North bank; Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Victoria Embankment and Northumberland Av' was sealed-off and pedestrianised, which made for a quite and pleasant walk in an area of London usually teeming with angry traffic!

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
London Eye

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
Golden Jubilee Bridge, there's actually two, one each side of the old Hungerford
Bridge, which has always been rail-only, I believe?

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
'The Queue', I avoided it like the plague, and I just don't get it, in the 16-somthing's maybe, but now? After over a hundred years of compulsory education and two World Wars . . . ♫ Britons always-always-always will be slaves! ♫

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
A vista which has changed greatly in my lifetime!

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
The London 'I'!
Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;

Big Ben; Clock Tower; Embankment; Embassies; Golden Jubilee Bridge; Houses Of Parliament; Jubilee Bridge; London; London Embankment; London Events; London Souvenir; Londoners; MI6 Building; Nigeria; Nigerian Flag; Parliament; River Thames; South Korea; South Korean Flag; Thames Embankment; Thames London; The London Eye;
 Trying to shoot aircraft at Clapham Junction!

 And then on to Clapham Junction and home, what I found is in the next and last of this sequence!

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