The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: Jews
Dad’s letters from Palestine – November, December 1946 and January 1947
It’s been a few weeks since I posted the last selection of my father’s letters from Palestine. Here are the latest set. Since then some sort of peace has broken out in Gaza between Hamas and Israel and the more vituperative … Continue reading
Posted in dad's letters, Palestine, paratrooper, politics
Tagged Arabs, balfour declaration, British Mandate, Jews, Palestine
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Upcycling buildings: if only it was as easy with people
Luccia Gray posts some lovely pictures (amongst loads of other great stuff) but the one that caught my imagination recently was on the Mosque in Cordoba. Initially it was the pictures that got me; the quality of the light in … Continue reading
Posted in buildings, London, miscellany
Tagged Brick lane Mosque, East London, Huguenots, Jews, Kray twins, Mosque, Oswald Moseley, Synagogue
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