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Mr O'Neil is a survivor of another era; he practically lives above the shop, that is his veterinary surgery and during his spare time he plays the piano upstairs.
he is reputed to have attended to the good health of Winston Churchill's dogs and his surgery is right next door's to John Sandoe's
john Sandoe's Bookshop is a survivor of a kind which traditionally nurtured links with authors. Its founder had his obituary in The Times.
NOTE:
O'Neil is now closed down...
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
Davy Jones and Will Turner gashapons flank a piece of early Harry Potter merchandise, a musical snowglobe. I sure miss the Warner Brothers store.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Complete Paintings
Hardcover Coffee Table Book
DIMENSIONS
11.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 13.5ʺH
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
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This is #myLibrary
After my trip in Syria, I decided to get down to the stuff and publish a book. sounds great with friends and made for a good present for Christmas. so here is!
I was really impressed by the quality of the final result. Some may say it'd better for the price, but I was definitely happy for my buck, or... euro.
If you want to have a peek at the 15 first pages, you can do so here: www.blurb.com/books/478399
I am not super happy with the begining of the book, as I think it gets better as it goes. But heck, after weeks and weeks working on it and showing it to people, I don't have a very objective point of view anymore. However, you are more than welcome to buy a copy! :)
Thanks again to all those who come and look, comment or just browse around my pix, it's good to have you around ;)!
take care all
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
One way to lose friends is to say something which is not fashionable about somebody like Boris Johnson: it is so much easier not to think for oneself and to regurgitate what the tabloids say. I noticed it the other day at a drinks party in south London (yes I do have friends south of the river!):
it struck me as plain lazy if not outright silly to repeat like a parrot headlines splashed on the news stand billboards... and caused me not to think much of the person whom I considered until then moderately intelligent before he gave 'his' opinion...
Why not see for myself, judge for myself, rather than recycle cliches?
Boris Johnson's kind of books , although inexpensively sold in paperback (some even in WH Smith at Victoria station - a bad omen) I would not normally read - it is not my thing! However, out of curiosity I decided to order several at my local Waterstone's bookshop (whose native salesmen do not even know how to spell such authors as Glendinning or Ondaatje...):when I put in the order I was looked at with a mixture of incredulity, amusement, suspicion and superiority by the young temp - thankfully I was not going to face him for much longer - these people do not stick for long in such places)...
Back to the story of my Saturday "drinks spotty" (sic) what my friend reproached Boris, among others, was that he appeared to be dressed casually at the Beijing Olympics ceremony, compared with the Chinese official who gave him the flag... I asked myself, where have I seen a British politician doing the same before? was it perhaps at the Cenotaph , the died-in-the wool "old Labour" Michael Foot?
Oh, but you see, Foot had plenty of excuses which would not apply to Boris in a society redolent with the resentment of class war typical of the best Stalinist practices, a society stuck in the mould of political correctness and global lukewarming.
Back to Johnson's books I finished his biography which i found amusing and informative giving a more rounded view of Boris and making him more humane than he otherwise appears, spontaneous, refreshing, cultivated, intelligent, predictable in his unpredictability....
"Cultivated" you say? but this is a cardinal sin which is looked at with greatest suspicion! Come on, who wants to be cultivated?
The other books I decided to read at intervals, a short story at a time and more of it later, For now all I can say from an incomplete trawl is that i would strongly recommend that you make up your own mind (unless it is too arduous or painful) and read for yourself.
Princess Marthe Bibesco: "Le Perroquet Vert"
My Library of Intentions
Franco-Romanian complicities
See also: "Blouse Roumaine - An Anthology of Romanian Women"
Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great
Book by F. S. Naiden
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
this book is a facsimile of the first edition published in l946. It has a lot of really good information about the old days of Route 66 in it.
my sketchbook, it's all done in fountain pen, and i've removed some of the ones that make me look excessively crazy.
my sketchbook, it's all done in fountain pen, and i've removed some of the ones that make me look excessively crazy.
We upgraded our network from a Linksys to this new Airport Extreme (802.11n) and have never looked back. We also connected this 250Gb Western Digital MyBook USB drive which we snagged for $79 at Circuit City. Now every computer on our network has access to this file storage and we use Apple's Backup software to regularly backup our computer data. Check out that spaghetti of wires. We really need to clean that up.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
Robert Whipple amassed a large collection of the works of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), including some extremely rare editions. There are around 140 items, covering all aspects of Boyle�s published work, including the books on theology and natural history displayed in the Reserve Gallery alongside his better-known chemical work, The Sceptical Chymist (1661). Whipple took particular care over this important collection, as evidenced by the careful annotations in his copies of the bibliography and handlist of Boyle�s works, which include the prices paid by him for the books, written in an alphabetical code.
Filio 2007 Edition of Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker picked up for £7 at The Cottage Bookshop in Penn on my last visit.
One of my favourite books: History of Old Szentendre Artists' Colony.
Cover: 1935. Miklós Bánovszky: Double portrait. Two Szentendre artists: Jenő Paizs-Goebel and Jenő Barcsay.
A great book, one that I had lost amongst my many books, but found and just finished reading, The Sensational Alex Harvey by John Neil Munro covers the life of one of our lost music legends, the late great Alex Harvey, much underated artist who left us with some fantastic music. Feb5th 1935 -Feb4th 1982.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are non fiction, history,biographies and autobiography’s of people and historical events I found to be interesting.
International Women's Day: 8 March 2012
Nawal El Saadawi's memoir, Walking through Fire, is a courageous and somewhat disturbing account of her life after qualifying as a doctor in Egypt. She is probably the most famous feminist - indeed a firebrand Egyptian activist! - of the Middle East, and totally unafraid to raise her voice against oppression of both women and men.
I first read her in my late teens, starting with The Hidden Face of Eve and Memoirs from a Women's Prison. I strongly recommend that you read her!
Of her own decision to write and highlight these difficult issues in a male-dominant and female-prejudicial society in her own stridant fashion she says:
Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous
than truth in a world that lies.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
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I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852–22 May 1932), née Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Anglo-Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and others, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. She also produced a number of books of retellings of stories from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced in these writings, was emblematic of many of the changes to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.
However, Lady Gregory is mainly remembered for her driving force of the Irish Literary Revival. Her home at Coole Park, County Galway served as an important meeting place for the leading Revival figures and her early work as a member of the board of the Abbey was at least as important for the theatre's development as her creative writings were. Her motto, taken from Aristotle, was "To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people."
source: wikipedia
The local ABC radio station, 666, was talking about the esoteric origins of Walter Burley Griffins design for Canberra the other day. Not sure if they mentioned this book, as I dashed for the bookshelf for the book!
He was a member of the Anthroposophical Society, a break away group from the Theosophists!
www.smh.com.au/comment/canberra-deserves-planning-to-be-p...
Canberra deserves planning to be put ahead of politics
Date
August 12, 2014
Rosemarie Willett
Tremendous deficiencies in the planning of the future of Canberra have been pointed out by Jack Waterford, most recently in an article in the Sunday Canberra Times.
He writes that "our leaders are not up to protecting the look, feel and sense of a prime part of the national capital". Many in the community are extremely disappointed in what is being offered to us in development proposals and I heartily endorse his criticisms. Government planning has become political instead of professional.
Canberra has the basic design structure upon which to develop one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is a landscaped city mindful of the natural landscape. But what is happening to our community and where are good leaders? Are complacency, conservatism, and idolisation of market forces taking over our society? What a pity when we don't rejoice more in quality, intelligence, beauty, community, collaboration, discussion, and long-term vision for our nation and our cities. Canberra as the national capital should be leading the way.
In unified Berlin, Unter den Linden, Pariser Platz, the Brandenburg Gate and the Tiergarten provide a sequential experience of the history and identity of the German national capital. They connect with Museum Island and the Bundestag. These are all people places where the union of community spirit and planning control lays the magical groundwork for busy street life. The metro beneath Unter den Linden is being extended from Friedrichstrasse- and no question the trees will be replaced. The scale of Unter den Linden is set by the trees and the private sector buildings, which are not permitted to exceed eight storeys, including the characteristic attic roof space. It is very satisfying when the building heights drop to five storeys after the reconstructed Hotel Adlon at Pariser Platz - so the impact of the sculpture above the Brandenburg Gate will not be diminished.
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Pariser Platz is a square of elegant beauty. Our planners of city hill should soak it in. Frank Gehry, of Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao fame, was invited to design the DZ Bank administration office and had to toe the line set to achieve the design integrity of Pariser Platz. Gehry's design is between the translucent fully glazed Academy of Arts building and theUS embassy, all forming the south side of Pariser Platz. Each building is markedly individual. Design integrity is achieved by height control, rhythm, proportion and a sympathetic application of materials as diverse as glass and stone, with articulation of form confined to architectural detail.
Gehry's foyer carries the classical proportions of the exterior and its elegance into the interior, but in the atrium space overlooked by the bank's offices he indulges his penchant for free sculptural form. All the buildings of Pariser Platz, each building by a different architect, are treated with great design skill. It is a remarkable creative achievement that embraces the community spirit and planning controls of Berlin. By comparison, City Hill, the last node of our National Triangle to be developed, is hurtling towards oblivion in a tangled mass of "six pack" building fabric which stretches from Russell to West Basin.
The National Triangle gives visible meaning to Canberra as the national capital. Being the national capital has allowed Canberra to grow with complexity and cultural sophistication beyond that achievable in any other inland city of Australia. This was deliberately encouraged by Walter Burley Griffin in the way he planned the city.
It would be a great mistake to underestimate the importance of the National Triangle to Canberra.
In Canberra we are still building our city whereas Berliners are rebuilding theirs; and at an amazing pace. What is so remarkable in Berlin is the application of intelligence, culture and community spirit to achieve high standards, indeed high quality in city planning and architecture. Why can't we do this in Canberra?
The stultifying weight imposed on the community by the "austerity measures" being applied by the federal government has to be acknowledged. More alarming are the political efforts to shake this off with a dangerously short-sighted shake-up of those planning institutions and regulations through which we hope to safeguard the special qualities we love in our city.
In Berlin they know how to "make place" something not evident in the "six pack" residential and commercial fabric that is appearing all over Canberra. The ACT government has many balls in the air - but there is no sign of a resolved design. Every proposal - "City to the Lake", Northbourne Avenue and light rail, Parkes Way and Constitution Avenue and the deplorable and meaningless Gateway buildings on City Hill - has unanswered questions attached and offers stunted solutions that could very well cripple better ideas in the longer term. We should know about that - we have seen it done to Griffin's plan.
Australia deserves better for its national capital. The Canberra community can do better if politics are put aside and it focuses on enabling fine quality planning.
Rosemarie Willett is an architect who formerly worked for MGT on Parliament House and with the Commonwealth and ACT Heritage. She is writing a book on Canberra and the Griffins and is also a member of the Griffin Society.
Read more: www.smh.com.au/comment/canberra-deserves-planning-to-be-p...
read more here.. www.anthroposophyau.org.au/about-anthroposophy/
Peril
Bob Woodword
Robert Costa
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A briilliant read, Don't Drop the Coffin follows the life of an London undertaker, it also covers past family business and up to date undertaking in London. Very funny in parts and sad in others, a great read. There was also a TV documentery series of the same title.
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
Edited by Bernard Knox
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
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The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
j ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution de mon premier livre"entre santoire et impradine"une collection de ttv à travers les monts du cantal.
aucune fierte, juste le plaisir de realiser un ouvrage
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merci
i am pleased to announce to you the publication of my first book " entre santoire and impradine " a collection of ttv through the mounts of the cantal.
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my sketchbook, it's all done in fountain pen, and i've removed some of the ones that make me look excessively crazy.
Books I read
Famous People
Poetry in Transation
“To me the trying part is being a woman at all. I’ve come to the ultimate conclusion that I’m a misfit of the worst kind, in spite of a superficial femininity — emotion with a foreknowledge of impermanence, a daring mind with only the tongue as an outlet, a greed for experience plus a slavery to convention — what the deuce are you to make of that? — as a woman? As a man, you could go ahead and stir things up fine”.
- See more at: www(dot)romanianstudies(dot)org/content/2015/02/poetry-in-translation-cccxviii-marjorie-lowry-christie-pickthall-1883-1922-englandcanada-marching-men-sodati/#sthash.1mc5t0(dot)dpuf