East India DLR station
Yes, it’s 2017 again, April, and I’m on my way home after a hard afternoon’s photoing out east. I get to that moment when suddenly, snap, my energy is all gone, and I just want home. So I drag myself...
View ArticleA lion with a strange shaped face
Here are a couple of photos of one of my favourite local London Things. It’s the Crimea and Indian Mutiny memorial, outside Westminster Abbey: On the left, I lined it up with the twin towers of the...
View ArticleHow to work with Indians
Michael Jennings: The ability to talk endlessly about cricket is a tremendously useful skill when the prospect of working with Indians comes up. There are more Indian cricket fans in India than there...
View ArticleIndia all out 36
Says Michael J, WFF? My sentiments exactly. What I’m finding interesting is how so many closer observers than I of this drama are saying that it wasn’t bad batting, so much as (like this guy says)...
View ArticleTendulkar and his worshippers
I think this is an amazing photo, and not just because I happen to be obsessed with the phenomenon of mass digital photoing. I think I’d love this photo however my interest, or lack of it, in photoing,...
View ArticleOn cricket and sleep
Last night India beat Australia, in Australia, and I listened to it on the radio. That is to say, I listened to a lot of it. But, I didn’t listen to all of it. I know I didn’t listen to all of it...
View ArticleCricket lag will now be unavoidable
Oh dear. I’ve just discovered that this is happening, on Channel 4 TV: You don’t need a jet to screw up your sleep patterns. Interesting television at 4am will do the job just as well. I was just...
View ArticleThe greatest ever sport weekend
Seriously, I can’t remember a weekend when there’s ever been more sport of the sort that I pay attention to. This particular weekend towards the beginning of February is usually pretty good, but this...
View ArticleStokes, Woakes and Foakes could all be playing in the second test
In January 2019, I noted that an England cricket team took to the field which included all three of Stokes, Woakes and Foakes. But that was a mere warm-up game, against something called the West Indies...
View ArticleSurrey pasted
Ouch: Surrey overnight looked like they could maybe make a fight of it, but by lunch they’d been totally blown away. Following sport has not been so good lately, for me. Various England cricket teams,...
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