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ROUND THE WORLD54 - POWER OUTAGE, LISBON, PORTUGAL - 4 May 2025During our first full day in Lisbon, Portugal, having just stepped off the tourist ‘Hop On Hop Off’ bus at our final stop on the red route - lots of interest to see, I took a photograph of a neon street sign ‘Optica Brasil’. It was just after midday, 12.30 to be exact and therefore no reason why this sign should have been illuminated. Next I noticed that the traffic lights weren’t working.
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This spring in the south of England, probably elsewhere, the blossom has been better than I have ever seen it.
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ROUND THE WORLD52 - CONCLAVE, ROME 30 April 2025As is well know worldwide, Pope Francis died on the 21st April 2025 followed by his funeral on the 26th April. From our good friend an acclaimed US TV Presenter based in Italy: ‘It has been a very busy period for me covering the funeral with much time spent at or near the Vatican surrounded by hosts of men in colourful robes……….
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ROUND THE WORLD50 - THE FACE, LONDON - 24 April 2025During our hectic short stay in London I visited the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to see the exhibition ‘The Face Magazine: Culture Shift.’ Don’t miss it. It’s fabulous. ‘Heaven’, the club we started, opened its doors in December 1979. ‘The Face’ magazine was launched by Nick Logan in May 1980.
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ROUND THE WORLD 49 - LONDON IMAGES 23 April 2025 The Shard and The Tower of London Tulips and Wallflowers at Buckingham Palace Burlington House, Piccadilly Air Street connecting Piccadilly and Regent Street London Underground Pedestrian Connection Russell Square At Work, The Market Exchange, Macklin Street The Furniture and Arts Building, Kings Road Soho Theatre, Dean Street Camassia in the Mall The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square Soho Square Graphic Rear Facade, Ilona Rose House, Greek...
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ROUND THE WORLD47 The Wilde Family Home, 1 Merrion Square, DUBLINOscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in 1854 at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, now home to the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. He had an older brother William Robert Kingsbury (1852 - 1899) who was to become a poet, a journalist, estranged from Oscar, impoverished and to meet an early death due to complications related to alcoholism.
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ROUND THE WORLD46 - GOLDFINGER - 18 April 2025On the day we left Hong Kong I trapped one of my fingers in a heavy bronze sliding door. It hurt like hell. Silly me. A bruise appeared at the base of the nail which instead of quickly resolving got larger and larger as the nail grew. To date no sign of the bruising coming to an end; hopefully not presaging a lost nail.
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ROUND THE WORLD 45 - IRISH ARTISTS - THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND - 16 April 2025 Claude Chavasse teaching an Irish Class 1911 - Sadbh Trinseach 1891-1918 Launching the Currach 1911 - Paul Henry 1876-1958 The Holy Well 1916 - Sir William Orpen 1878-1931 Dropping Well Pub, Old Bridge, Dublin 1920 - Maurice J MacGonigal 1900-1979 Lady Lavery 1927 - Sir John Lavery 1856-1941 West of Ireland 1928 - Paul Henry 1876-1958 A Composition 1930 - Mainie Jellett 1897-1944 Rosapenna from Breaghy Head...
