A new Church view is revealed and Red 13

Christ the Saviour is revealed 

Oddly I was slightly excited to walk through Dickens Yard Ealing development and see that a new view to Christ the Saviour (church) had been revealed - it's quite a revelation and I'm optimistic to how the new area will feel as the apartments become more inhabited

It's quite staggering how the work has brought such results.

A building site some time ago.

Bond Street Pop Up

In a couple of weeks or so I'll be in the Bond Street Ealing Pop Up shop in a collaboration/exhibition  with successful artist Helen Trevisiol-Duff  - at the moment I'm getting together the work I'll show and find out how I might arrange my photographs.

working on a layout.

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And here's a work by Helen that show's her passion for colour - here Red.

Our shared interest in Colour will be revealed 

Delivery and fulfilment along with Red 14

In the 'developed' world one of the major changes over the last 5 years or so has been  the ease with which we can explore the 'long tail' of pretty much everything from media (like music and movies) to consumer items.

Headphones but mic too

As the market tends towards the mythical economic 'perfect' one, price becomes uniform and  a differentiatior  becomes the satisfactory delivery and fulfilment of the order - I've recently had several orders that have come incredibly quickly but sadly amongst them have been two where the orders have had errors (a shortage with one and an error with the other).

The problem with errors is that they require further 'to-ing' and 'fro-ing' and trips to post office (or equivalent)

What we can expect in the future is better (and free?)  delivery (or arrangements where we can collect) - perhaps those drones and driver-less cars.

We might as well of course have  the possibility of constructing locally various items ourselves via 3-D printing too.

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Rather poignant little shoe at front of Cóte Ealing

A Red bootee in a planter just by a local restaurant 

Back in the Ealing Gazette and Red 15

As shown in paper and ...

Seems like quite a break on an appearance for one of my photographs in the local paper both in terms of  having a picture there and the time between submission and publication (I'm not sure if there's a guideline working here that stops the picture being 'News' as it would have been when submitted and a general readers' picture which it could be now).


The picture was of local artist and co-BEAT participant John Kaye -nice to see it, but it reminded me of why I prefer to show my own photographs' as I'm not a fan of the way it was cropped.

A more complete illustration of John

[they changed my words too -these were mine

The Ealing ART Trail (BEAT)  weekends this month  had a great range of Arts and Artists.

One of busiest venues was The Orchard Cafe and the big hit there was John Kaye (94) with his Modernist Sculptures, John's already planning his exhibition for 2017 ]

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This is another flavour of Red from local shopping centre

A Red Tent with a rather odd window detail

EU debate continues - Determinism versus Free Will and Red 16

So the Brexiteers and their supporters appear to be finding themselves increasingly rattled -reading Mathew Parris  on  his  party colleague Michael Gove is seems that Gove has been  able to blame his opponents for their negativity in causing the events to confirm the Remainers view on the folly of leaving the EU - wouldn't it be great if we'd had a cooling off period and people could change their minds as they reflected on the outcome and effect of exit?

An absolute lie on NHS funding from Boris & Mike?

Were  the battles over the EU within the Tory leadership anything beyond internal bad blood and thwarted ambitions?

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Determinism versus Free Will

I really found Alain de Botton's piece (within the School of Life)  on what governs our lives Free will or Determinism useful, intellectually I'm not too sure that it's either  and the idea of it being a blend of the two seems to work better  - of course the mind set we use to get us through the day to day is what is important - if we err with an attitude too far towards self will we will (generally) blame ourselves for things that we would in reality  have practically no control over.


Those who believe that all they achieve is by fierce determination in battling the odds - beating Cancer, winning despite their opponent having had a better start in life will ultimately be defeated by the onset of time.

One on every High Street?

Similarly irritating  are those who give up at the first set-back, 'I'm unlucky' or it's God's will are unlikely to be able to take credit for a good result from the effort they expended.


So in fact we should enjoy luck and victory but recognise that things might have gone differently - if we do not feel there's a greater power at work we can at least celebrate the accident that has given us the chance to 'take the ride'

It's an interesting exercise too to investigate the far edges of our memories - things we only just recall - perhaps then looking at it with someone else who shared the event.

One of  the ideas of human memory is that recalling actually tampers with the 'stored;' version when we go back again the  recall is slightly altered -does it mean (if the event is only recalled via memories) that we've changed history?

The idea that 'truth ' is less than intrinsic is a complex issue but my conviction on a past experience can I think be wrong (but remain true to me).

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16 Chard and what do you get?

Chard- A plant full of Red goodness