Look what I saw today
The East End is interesting.
(And yes, that's West Ham United football stadium in the background).
Thursday, April 06, 2006
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A potted history
- Kathryn
- Aussie ex-pat, recently in London, currently in Texas. Have developed a goal of living on every continent before I turn 40.
Making me happy
- friends and friendship
- ordering groceries instead of trekking back with them packed into suitcases
- clean clothes
- seeing Anita and the boys so often
- candles
- my lovely David :)
- taking photos
Making me weary
- constant tiredness
- being ill for weeks on end
- gearing up to leave beautiful London :(
- being treated like a criminal by the US government
- separation!
- time differences
- not getting enough sleep
Things to see
- Tintagel
- a film... any film...
- Sherborne and Templecombe
- Notting Hill (with Sharon)
- Hampton Court
- Guildhall Art Gallery
London and UK Links
Other Interesting Links
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5 comments:
It's a Victorian hearse. I've read about them but never seen one before - the horses with their black plumes and blinkers etc. Do you think it had been used for a real funeral?
It was about to be used - it was waiting outside a funeral home. There was another attendant - a woman - standing in front of the horses and keeping them calm; I couldn't fit her in the photo. Later on that afternoon I saw it processing solemnly up Green Street with the coffin in it... it's the second time I've seen one, just like that; the first one was covered in wreaths and flowers including one spelling out 'MUM' in yellow 'mums; it was just like in books :D
...except for the crowd of black clad mourners following the hearse with measured steps and eyes downcast led by the grieving widower or widow who would be wearing a black veil and jet jewellery and a locket with a curl of the deceased's hair within...
well, yeah; except for that ;)
Oh you mean they were there for a purpose, other than being horses and being good to look at?
...never thought of that...
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