Before Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Taken from a similar POV as Against Racism Against Poverty Against War
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A vigil will be held in Trafalgar Square (that’s in London, y’all) tonight at 6pm GST, which I think works out to be about 10 or 11am my time (argh, it’s not Eastern Standard Confusing Time here, but it’s something like that). I’ll be there in spirit, and I expect there will be webcams running feeds at various news sites. Oops, gotta go to work. I’ll check in later with more information and maybe some pictures of Trafalgar to aid in visualizing a world without terrorism. Oh, to be in London in August: We Are Not Afraid – Tube Challenge…
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London Pride Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Last night I enjoyed a tasty glass of Fuller’s London Pride, as planned, and then photographed it and uploaded it to Flickr. Then this morning I was listening to a radio essay by Scott Simon on NPR called “The Resilience of London — and Londoners.” It was one of Simon’s best ever, right up there with his dispatches from Sarajevo. The piece ended with an old song by Noel Coward called “London Pride.” It was scratchy sounding and creaky in the joints, but it had something to say about the strength Londoners found to…
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And St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington is treating 10 people, two of which are in a critical condition. Three of St Mary’s patients have been transferred to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s specialist burns unit, bringing the number there to four. A spokeswoman for Chelsea and Westminster said they were being assessed by a team of plastic surgeons. That’s a little disturbing. Paddington was “our” station and St Mary’s was just up the street from the Indian restaurant (Indus Delta) where we had our first dinner in London… when we felt we’d been welcomed by the city, and were totally ready…
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towerbridge-thumb Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Another photo from the 2004 trip to Britain. I have to remember, until I figure out how to get the text to flow properly on photos posted from Flickr, that I need to write enough text to clear the bottom of the image, or the problem posed by having a floated image within a floated center column will keep screwing things up. I keep fiddling with the customized CSS at Flickr; images blogged from Flickr look great over at the Blogspot photoblog, but they’re are handled differently there (no CSS drop shadow) and the layout…
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We’re all Londoners today. I’m taking my London Underground mug to work today just to remember the marvel that is the Tube, and to be in solidarity with the people of London. I asked my husband David if he was going to wear his beloved “Mind the Gap” T-shirt to work, but he thought that would be too flippant. I imagine things at work are going to be somewhat hairy until we figure out if we have many travelers in London – I just ran a report of all the international records we currently have yesterday, and from what I…
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When we were on our recent trip to Washington state (or as I used to call it, “the Pacific Northwet,”) I noticed all the “tsunami escape route” signs, which are similar to the ones we’ve seen on trips to Hawaii. I wondered then what a devastating wave might do to some of the coastal communities we were in, and it seemed like they were pretty well up on the tidal wave preparedness angle. After yesterdays’ 7.0 undersea quake, which was supposed to automatically trigger a general evacuation once it was confirmed, it turns out that for many Pacific coast communities,…
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I’ve added some more images from last week’s trip to my gallery and now that takes us up through the end of the festival weekend. The actual festive activities start with this photo; I took a bunch of pictures of the mostly-inactive revamped fountain before there were actually people at the site. This time I tried to take more images of people and interesting things rather than just pictures of static performances. Take a one man band, a bunch of guys in Utilikilts, some dancing girls, some singing groups, and an incredible array of fascinating characters and long-lost friends, and…
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Well, here are a few hints. First: And another one: And finally: And there are hundreds more where that came from, plus many pictures of rocks, flowers, trees, people, and emergency services personnel and vehicles. It was an exciting, exhilarating, exhausting trip, and we’re glad to be home. More to follow in the coming days. I’ll be uploading a few gig’s worth of photos and trying to remember whether it was 3 or 4 beers we had that night at McMenamin’s, when every sea-chantey singer and Morris dance musician not actually performing at Folk Life stopped by to play, sing,…
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It’s about frickin’ time I got the last Britain travel journal entry done. Because of the fiddling back-dating I did, the earliest entry is at the bottom, but it’s all in September of 2003. You can definitely see a progression in the way I handled images and blogging – the first 2 or 3 entries were written very early in my distinguished writing career. 🙄 Sorry about the ugly “photo corners” on some images. I stupidly put them on and now I can’t take them off. Lesson learned. Anyway, it’s done. If you start here and keep clicking on the…