I have many time on visits to London wandered past the Café de Paris, once hopeful to perhaps visit but this did not come to pass.
Category: England
As One Must
Without material joy but with a glowing heart onto Hatchards (as one must – it’s a bookstore) and to Fortnum and Masons for a fine tin of Florentines…
The Plight of a Bumblebee
Colourful, large and fuzzy…their work is considerably important to all humanity. They are of the kind…the pollinators…without them there would be no crops, no wildflowers. Honeybees too are important, but bumbles can fly in cooler temperatures and operate with lower light levels. Honeybees and associated beekeeping was declared a war essential and beeswax was used to replace petroleum products to waterproof ammunition and as a replacement for sugar, which was rationed.
Never say goodbye
Alone and discarded among other former memories. Spine broken – fitted with an assortment of mending tape. Once read…many times read, the life passed from its pages..now reborn by a caring hand that knew another story it could tell.
…and now we have been
Thread Fourteen: The landscapes of France and Flanders…London…have offered of themselves…their connections to us. We have rediscovered, found, observed and, above all, we have become connected. In finding the threads between the thimbles and needles we have bore witness the fabric of history…perhaps patchwork…but ours for all time.
Sound, light, colour…history
Thread 13: From Buckingham Palace Road we turn onto Birdcage Walk, bypassing the tourists who have lined up along the gates to view the Guards. Instead of joining the onlookers we choose instead to visit the Guards Chapel and more.
The Dust of Each Conflict
Thread 12: I conduct a reconnaissance of the gift shops anticipating a volume or two to rest amongst others in a tall stack of reading to do. Though centenary titles continue to abound, we are starting to see interest in the immediate aftermath of this conflict that gave birth to the world as we know it today.
When the World Stands Before Us
Thread Eleven: A chance to pause within the history of the Victoria and Albert Museum. This day I have come here especially for the building’s ornamentations in situ, not within exhibition cases but part of the built structure itself.
Paddington: A soldier and a bear
Thread Ten: The soldier statue stands on Platform 1 alongside a wall within Paddington Station, with a letter in his hands. He is reading. Please look after this soldier.
Thimble, Threads and Needle
Thread One: The heat is upon us as loose threads, from many previous investigations, are brought together in a single expedition across London.