Columbia Road Flower Market, London

A month or so back we did a family outing to Columbia Road. On Sundays it has a great flower and plant market, and my lovely step-mother's garden was in need of a little refurb. The plants turned out to have been good quality - they've thrived - and were very cheap compared to shops.








It was raining, so Ellie hitched a ride inside my jacket


The street is now lined with some lovely little shops, which are open during the week - and this Wednesday night, for anyone wanting to do a little last minute Christmas shopping.







I wasn't sure if this was a Banksy, as they claimed, or just an homage - but the area has some interesting Street Art.

Book: The Christian Parthenon

BMCR has a review of a new book about the Christian Parthenon here:

Anthony Kaldellis, The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 252; ills. 26 b/w, 2 maps. ISBN 978-0-521-88228-6. $99.00.

Ellie: the cutest puppy in my world

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Graves on Sydney St, London

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Revolutionary New Dead Sea Scrolls Theory

They had a puppy in the cave ...? Think about it. Scraggy raggled badly dog-eared almost beyond recognition cylinders of paper ... It would explain so much!

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"A Room of One's Own" tea towels ...

... I still can't work out if these are meant to be ironic? Or not? Either way, I suspect that Virginia Woolf would not have been amused.

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