Tuesday, 16 December 2008




Just O'Meara Street in Southwark - no associations. Worcester Street in 1872, part of Mr. Rush's Vinegar yard in 1747.

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Vauxhall sky and All Saints



Good sky coming west out of Waterloo yesterday afternoon. No photo, but scribbled it down in oils this morning. Bad day for photography - All Saints, Margaret Street is the only half-decent one. Nairn again:

" Here is the force of Wuthering Heights translated into dusky red and black bricks, put down in a mundane Marylebone street to rivet you, pluck you into the courtyard with its harsh welcoming wings and quivering steeple."

Monday, 1 December 2008

Five tense, shallow arches leap the Thames


Nairn: "it is effortless, making its small slam without a qualm... Six no trumps; it just misses the seventh because it is too self-absorbed"