Photography
At first sight this is another huge high-rise development in former docklands to the east of London. But there’s more to the architecture of London City Island than that. The island location (known locally as “Bog Island”) is in the deep part of one of the curves of the River Lea just before Leamouth, the confluence with the River Thames at East India Docks. The geographical location fundamentally softens the architecture which is indeed otherwise relentlessly rectilinear and very vertical, reaching far higher than power lines in Canning Town on the far side of the River Lea.
Dignity in death: lobsters are a formidable survivor species with ancestors back to at least the Cretaceous, 140 million years ago. This individual came from Canada, claimed farmed sustainably.
Terry’s cooking of Langoustines flambés in Pastis de Marseille with seared lettuce, at home in Preston Park, Brighton; we enjoyed our meal with a bottle of 2020 Macon Villages and a typically colourful Brighton & Hove sunset.
Thanks Terry.
“It could be you” - a young man contemplates the war memorial (1923) in Northernhay Gardens, Exeter.
