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Another 600 pager...Written in 92, this is a bit like a book version of The Wire - though a decade before that series existed. It looks at a lot of the same issues of drugs in US cities and the impact it has on those in the communities. Its very much plot and character driven and looks at the dynamics between drug dealers, the community and the police in a fictional part of New Jersey. A well worked plot and pacy story, bearing in mind the length of it, this is well written stuff and very much recommended.
It has made me very intrigued about the film. I really like a lot of Spike Lee's stuff, but never got round to watching Clockers....a cheap DVD purchase coming up I think. A couple of the actors from Clockers also appeared in The Wire...which should be suitably confusing.
This Mora clock is built into a cabinet. It's kind of strange, if the clock were in a standard case, it would be at least 7 feet tall but here it is at most 6 feet tall and the cabinet has to make room for the pendulum and the weights to fall. This was seen in an antique shop in upstate NY on my recent trip and taken with my Kodak ZI8.
The old Kienzle clock and the Junghans travel clock I got as an engagement present?
With Guarantee!!
from 1967
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Common name: Bengal Clock Vine, Bengal Trumpet Vine, Tumakhlung (Gujarati)
Botanical name: Thunbergia grandiflora
- [ (thun-BER-jee-uh) named after Carl Peter Thunberg, 19th century Swedish botanist; (gran-dih-FLOR-uh) with large flowers ]
Family: Acanthaceae (acanthus or ruellia family)
- [ (ah-kanth-AY-see-ay) from the Greek Ãikantha, meaning thorn, spine, or spike ]
Origin: India
The Blue Skyflower has been called by some "the most beautiful vine in the world". From a distance, this twining, flowering vine looks like a morning glory and even up close the flowers are quite similar. It is a vigorous evergreen vine that comes from northern India.
From the rope-like stems, that can reach to the top of large structure or even cover a good sized tree, emerge the dark green leaves that are leathery and have a distinctive elongated heart shape, 4-5 inches long and often have a slightly toothed margin. The beautiful 3 inch wide pale blue flowers are cup-like with pale yellow to cream blue striped centers.
This plant can be in bloom at nearly any time of year but will sulk during cold months. Plant in full sun or in a shaded location (this vine will find the sun!) The rampant growth of this vine can be somewhat controlled by giving or withholding irrigation - once established it needs only be watered occasionally.
World clocks at our hotel in Delhi. Note that it is 10:27 in Delhi and 1:07 in New York. We arrived home at about 1am which was 24 hours later. Our travel from Delhi to Jaipur door to door with a 2 hour layover in London took 24 hours. It took me a week to recover from the jet lag. One mystery of our trip was why is India on the half hour from the rest of the world. You may also note that the clocks are a little off.
Yorkies will recognize this clock near the City Screen on Coney Street in York. The face was broken a few years ago...and stayed broken until relatively recently.
14 ” x 29 ” x 7 ”
2-year warranty
8 days on one wind
Hand-carved pines, grape leaves, vines, brambles, roots, oak leaves, cuckoo bird
Animated, hand-painted, life-sized cuckoo bird
Metal cage
Made in Germany
Wooden hands, numbers, and bird
Shut-off switch
Official Black Forest clock certified by the VDS
A Romba Original!
This clock is an example of the finest carving available. The clock hangs on an intricately carved backboard full of trees and brambles. The clock itself has a Bahnhäusle design on a backboard with a metal cage housing a life-sized, hand-carved and hand-painted bird.
The bird flaps its wings and moves its beak to the cuckoo call. The clock-on-backboard design allows for incredible depth and dimension in the carving. The three-dimensional pine trees come to a delicate point above, and there is even real moss at the base of the trees!
The bird is finely painted to show even more depth and lifelike realism.
This grand piece is by Rombach und Haas and is exclusively available through North Coast Imports. It is an Official Black Forest Clock, certified by the VDS. This clock was also the winner of the VDS Best Black Forest Clock of the Year Award for 2003.
If you are interested in this clock please Email us at: clocks@NorthCoastImports.net – please be sure to include your postal or zip code so we can direct you to a dealer in your area.
The Clock Mill
Taken during London Open House 2018
Clock tower of 1753; mill adjoining to the east of 1817. Mill brown brick with slate pitched roof to eaves. Four and a half storeys. Eight bays wide with segmental headed sash windows, sixteen paned with sashes renewed. Weatherboarded gabled hoist housing to left hand side of south facade. To the right two three storey drying kilns with conical slated roofs (cowls recently added). In front of these, at corner, clock tower, yellow brick of two square stages, one octagonal, surmounted by two stage wooden octagonal clock tower with cupola and clock. Pointed windows with Gothic glazing bars to lower stages. Three tidal water wheels and driving gear to ground floor of mill range.
[Historic England]
The area known as Three Mills Island is a stretch of land surrounded by three channels of the ancient River Lea. There have been mills in this area for many centuries – according to the Domesday Survey, there were at least eight mills here at that point in time. Over time, wind power was used to drive mills with the addition of windmills. But, this area remains, perhaps, best known for its tidal mills. It was to become the home of the biggest tidal mill in the world.
The mills on this site were historically able to take advantage of the tidal flow of the river up to the Thames Estuary and the local Bow Creek. During its heyday, the mills here could work for up to eight hours in each tide, allowing them to become major producers in London.
In medieval times, Three Mills was the main producer of flour for local bakers who baked bread for the city. The mills here also had other uses, however, and at least one was a gunpowder mill. The site was largely developed in the 1720s when it was purchased by a group of local residents, including Peter Lefevre, a Huguenot refugee from France.
In the 1770s, the owners built the current House Mill building. Its name was derived from its location between two houses for staff who worked on the site as millers. The second of the mills, the Clock Mill, was constructed in 1817 and the third was a windmill. This site was a thriving concern in the 18th century. As well as the mills that worked on site, the owners also ran a distillery and piggery and employed many local people.
The House Mill was damaged by a fire in 1802 and needed to be partly rebuilt. Bombing during the Second World War effectively closed the site down in terms of milling production. The last of the mills to be in operation was the House Mill itself, which was ultimately shut down in 1941. This building now has a Grade I listing.
[EastLondonHistory website]
Visit to mum's ... the timer in the kitchen was the one I used in my darkroom before I moved out at 18 yrs old, 36 yrs ago.