#121: Camembert
‘Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.’ – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
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#120: Illumination
‘Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.’ – Thomas Aquinas
#119: Musée du Louvre
‘We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).’ – Alain de Botton Another old photo from 2012 and another trip to Paris. Damn, it’s a photogenic… Continue reading #119: Musée du Louvre
#118: Magic wands
‘Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.’ – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Today in 2014, I went on the Harry Potter studio tour. Although I’ve always been a bigger fan of the… Continue reading #118: Magic wands
#117: Badge of honour
‘Heroes don’t always have capes, badges or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.’ Andrea Randall Thank you to the consultants and other members of the MDT who have supported our strike and kept our patients safe. I am proud to be a junior doctor, more so than ever, and I hope that I can… Continue reading #117: Badge of honour
#111: New egg
‘”These eggs are broken. Cracked.” “Yes, ma’am. That happens sometimes.” “Does it?” “Yes, it’s the unfortunate part of being an egg.”‘ – Peter Hedges, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
#107: Snail
‘I am the Angel of Death to any kind of plant.’ – Sara Sheridan I do suspect that this quote is more appropriate for my gardening skills than the snail but never mind…
#101: Welcome to my beautiful garden
‘A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.’ – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Passed this garden when out for a walk in North London and thought that it was pretty fantastic… …so I took two photos of it!
#97: Notre Dame de Paris
‘Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century…define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumeral chimneys.’ – Victor… Continue reading #97: Notre Dame de Paris
#96: Winchester Cathedral
‘Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on.’ – Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons Another old photo from roughly this time last year…