This morning, I am not sure if I have been hit with a cold or the cold: forehead ache, badly behaving nose… It may clear when the house gets above 4 degrees, if it does. Whatever it does, I am working backwards this morning, starting with yesterday’s progress report from Harland and Wolff. It may not look like much is happening, but the main deck is coming together, and other sections are ready to add when the time comes, so before long, I reckon, we’re going to have a major breakthrough, and I don’t mean through the hull by ice.
While working backwards, here was the scene at Scena on Saturday night…
And here is an illustration of Smithfield market, London, in the 19th century for no reason other than it happened to be in the wrong folder at the right time. (It’s vague research for the next book).
Heading backwards while coming forwards from the 1800s, here’s a shot of part of a new exhibition concerning Athens and the Acropolis which you can catch between flights when waiting at Athens airport. It still tickles me that Athens is the only airport I know of that has a permanent exhibition space. Not a huge one, granted, but still…
Before witnessing this brief exhibit, I witnessed the Alps from the middle seat at 30,000 feet, so not a great image, and difficult to achieve without the woman beside me thinking I was trying to snatch a shot of her upper deck. The wing doesn’t help either, only in terms of keeping us at 30,000 feet, which is, after all, rather more important than yet another photo from an aeroplane window.
On which note, I shall go and blow my nose again and sniff my way to work at the kitchen table where I have just opened a new roll of kitchen paper.
