Jarvo's Landscape Posts
July 16, 2016
One Stop Short of Upney
Barking was once an Essex town, but has long since been incorporated into the Greater London area. "Barking", as in barking mad, is also a slang term for…
June 24, 2016
Notes From A Small Island
I spent all day on Thursday working in a polling station. By the time I got out at some time after 10pm the world had changed. We didn't know it yet, but it…
July 31, 2009
257. Nature Will Always Find A Way
Yesterday in Ruth's Blog [photoblog.com], she expressed concern at how we are killing the planet. This post may give a different side to the story, because it…
May 14, 2009
179. There Is Nothing Like A Dame
The big boat is the cruiser HMS Belfast [en.wikipedia.org] which has been docked in London as a tourist attraction scince 1971. The yacht “Scarlet Oyster”…
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