Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Night Running

Nightwalks by Charles Dickens

Some years ago, a temporary inability to sleep ... caused me to walk about the streets all night, for a series of several nights... The month was March, and the weather damp, cloudy, and cold... the river had an awful look, the buildings on the banks were muffled in black shrouds, and the reflected lights seemed to originate deep in the water, as if the spectres of suicides were holding them to show where they went down. The wild moon and clouds were as restless as an evil conscience in a tumbled bed, and the very shadow of the immensity of London seemed to lie oppressively upon the river.

[Source: Nightwalks (2010) from Penguin


Vauxhaul Bridge - January 2013 - Routemaster

Albert Bridge - October 2012 - Taxi and jogger

Putney  - October 2012 - View of Craven Cottage football ground


Chelsea - November 2012 - Royal Barge

Putney - October 2012 - Rowers training

Greenwich Peninsula - December 2012 - O2



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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Rotherhithe Snowstorm

The Conversation of Old Men by Thom Gunn

He feels a breeze rise from
the Thames, as far off
as Rotherhithe, in
intimate contact with
water, slimy hulls,
dark wood greenish
at waterline - touching
then leaving what it
lightly touches; he
goes on talking, and this is
the life of wind on water.

[Source: Collected Poems (1993) from Faber & Faber]

Comment: Thom Gunn was born by the river in Gravesend.


Rotherhithe - January 2013 - Foreshore east

Rotherhithe - January 2013 - Looking west


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