The use of sandstone as the building material of choice in Oxford makes it highly suitable for the Hollywood blockbuster look that is flavour of the month – ‘teal and orange’ – this is my special localised version called ‘teal and Oxford. I’m considering marketing special filtered sunglasses with a built in vignette to all the American tourists here to make them feel right at home.
Good grief, now Facebook is upset with me for going somewhere other than ‘my computer’ whatever that may mean. Perhaps it would be better if I never left the house at all – I wouldn’t like to fall out with Facebook would I?
it’s raining here in Oxford so I’ve turned this building into Lego to make it more interesting.
So what’s the difference between a prison and a hotel? In a hotel you get a room key…So here’s an amusing idea, take a former prison and turn it into a hotel. Plus points: the room security is going to be good. minus points? not many, maybe sitting tennants…of course the main problem is finding any empty prisons – penal reform is not particularly high on the political agenda last time I checked – if anything we want to build […]
No it’s not St Patrick’s day again it’s organic Stonhenge bitter called ‘sign of spring’ and it tastes like fairy washing up liquid…. well, not really.
For a brief period a few years back Nokia must have believed they had hit on the best thing since SMS. Namely the concept of the phone with changeable covers – or as I like to imagine it – clothes for phones.
Back in the old days when we use to shoot photos on that archaic media called film you had to get it developed before you could see what a mess you’d made of your composition.
There’s something weird going on down when the tide goes out… something luminescent and alive. There’s a whole crawling, creeping ecosytem just below your feet at the river bank and it’s climbing steadily upwards…Look out..