Sooty The Fish

Stuff. Travel Pix (Places, Musicians, Critters, Art, Food, Buildings, Folk etc). Sometimes Straighforward, Sometimes a little Skewed. Occasional Verbage. All Original (or Sooty's Nearest and Dearest's) unless otherwise Stated. Very little Reblogging . . . . . . . . Mostly Harmless.

Permalink Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, England Canals in the heart of Brum. Surprisingly picturesque.
Permalink Queen’s House, Greenwich, England [arch. Inigo Jones] Looking moody.
Permalink Honiton, Devon, England Where I lived when I was three.
Permalink Black Pudding & Beans on Toast, St John’s Hotel, London A most fortifying breakfast
Permalink Coventry Cathedral, England [arch. Basil Spence] & Horse [sculptor Simon Evans] I think they’ve moved the horse now.
Permalink Temple of the Four Winds, Castle Howard, Yorkshire [arch. John Vanbrugh] Nothing completes a small garden like a little folly.
Permalink south coast of Cornwall, England Sun, scenery and exercise. Now time for a pint.
Permalink Wells Cathedral, England An owl-eyed strainer arch. Yes it is.
Permalink Gas Street Basin, Birmingham, England My grandmother used to tell me there were more canals in Brum than Venice. Which may have been true but in Venice you didn’t have to traverse concrete underpasses to get to them. But it seems to have improved.
Permalink Statue of Horatio Nelson, Greenwich, England Looks like he’d rather be inside the adjacent pub with a pint.
Permalink Rice and Flesh, at Dinner By Heston, London To be more precise, rice and calf tail (with red wine and saffron). Delicious, much much better than any other English rice dish I’ve had (notwithstanding that would be canned rice pudding). And from 1390 it seems http://www.dinnerbyheston.com/menus
Permalink Selfridges, Birmingham, UK [arch. Future Systems] Through door and into a fine piece of blobitecture.
Permalink Merry-go-round, Christmas Market, Victoria Square, Birmingham, England Lots of colour, light and movement in the gloom.
Permalink Lloyd’s Building, London [arch. Richard Rogers] The Joy of Ducts.
Permalink Sometime in the 80s, Greenwich, England. Extended backpacking seems to make you more colourful. And Thatcher’s England needed a bit of brightening up.