London Life

Saturday Snapshots #115

November 6, 2010

 Bonfire Night – 5 November 2010   "Tell me, did you fall for a shooting starOne without a permanent scarAnd did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there"                                                             Train – Drops of Jupiter   This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #106

September 4, 2010

Thames sunset, June 2008   This is part of a series of non-food photographs that will be published every Saturday on CookSister – all previously featured  photographs can be viewed on the Saturday Snapshots compendium page.  All photos featured in Saturday Snapshots are available to buy as high-quality greeting cards or prints in my RedBubble store. They make gifts, for friends [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #104

August 21, 2010

Facade - Greenwich Peninsula, August 2010 Last week we were in Maritime Greenwich, this week we are on the Greenwich Peninsula, a tongue of land to the south of the River Thames that extends north, just east of the Isle of Dogs.  It was here the the Millennium Dome was opened on 1 January 2000 to house the Millennium Experience exhbition for one [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #103

Thumbnail image for Saturday Snapshots #103 August 14, 2010

Greenwich colonnade, London – August 2008 The Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich in the south-east of London was designed by Sir Christopher Wren (who also designed St Pauls Cathedral and a myriad of other churches in London) and was completed in 1694 as a hospital for “the relief of seamen and their dependents”.  By 1869, [...]

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The Spice Girls do London – and Cooksister does DMBLGiT August 2010

August 11, 2010

(photo – courtesy of Mowie) [Are you here for Does My Blog Look Good in This August '10?  Simply scroll to the bottom of the post!] So what do you say when you have to go and pick up two people from the airport that you have only met once before, and whom you have now [...]

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Crispy duck breasts with a wild cherry balsamic reduction

August 3, 2010

I expected a lot of things when I came to live in England. I expected the weather to be depressing – tick.  I expected to be a little homesick – tick.  I expected to see lots of shows and concerts – tick.  I expected to develop unnatural cravings for biltong, Peppermint Crisp and NikNaks – [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #99

July 17, 2010

Making a splash – Henley Royal Regatta, July 2010 The Henley Royal Regatta has taken place at Henley-on-Thames every summer since 1839, when the racing took place on a single afternoon.  The Regatta proved so popular with oarsmen that the racing lasted for two days from 1840. In 1886 the Regatta was extended to three days and to four [...]

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