Daily Archive for August 16th, 2007

Orange

One of my tomato plants has been working hard since the late Spring to produce this single (and I hope tasty) pleasantly coloured tomato (Jubilee variety, I think):

orange tomato

I’ve no idea why just the one (is the unbelievable dryness a factor?), but I’m grateful all the same. I’m trying to not compute the average price per vegetable for this year’s Continue reading ‘Orange’

Newton in Bronze

newton by Eduardo PaolozziI’m writing from the courtyard of a particularly fine and (to my mind) vitally important institution, using their (surprisingly) free wireless (which runs at a charmingly-then-frustratingly glacial speed) to pop up these images of a huge statue, entitled “Newton”.

It is by the sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi.

Any idea where I am?

newton by Eduardo Paolozzi

(Of course, I’ve given you enough information to find out by using Google… but maybe Continue reading ‘Newton in Bronze’