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Went to Hampstead Heath at the weekend. Near Kite Hill and Parliament Hill sits The Writer, a sculpture by Italian artist Giancarlo Neri. It's basically just a big table and chair. It's certainly rather startling....

One of Henry VIII's warships, the Mary Rose lies at the bottom of the Solent, of Portsmouth. Last week, I noticed a salvage ship there, Terschelling, and later looked up this news article...
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The Pindar yacht in Portsmouth
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I was sailing on the Solent, off Portsmouth and Gosport last week, on board a 39ft yacht, with friends. As we made our way from Cowes on the Isle of Wight to Gosport, I couldn't believe the amount of ship traffic - rush hour on a Sunday afternoon! Decommissioned warships, car ferries, racing yachts - you name it.

Grave of George Wombell, 'Menagarist'
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I visited Highgate Cemetery in London last weekend - was dismayed at first by the restrictions on photography, but was able to take quite a few images while I was. I was hindered by a lack of light, but made the most of it. The whole post-gothic Victorian necropolis is under siege by nature - when entering the Circle of Lebanon (a huge neo-Egyptian mausoleum complex) we even saw a fox. The tour was lead by a stout elderly gentlemen with a walking stick, who puffed and panted his way through the tour. I wondered if he himself would expire before the downhill section started. On a poignant note, it seems that his wife is buried in the cemetery...