Strange Bird

Yesterday I came across this strange little bird on the wall of an underground car park at a city supermarket.

I wonder who created him and why?

Monochrome days

We are stuck in a seemingly endless period of dark, rainy, cold weather. 

Thanks goodness for evergreens.

They provide the only hint of colour on these drab days of grey skies, grey buildings and bare branches.

The quayside in winter.

It is cold, deserted and wet, along quayside in Looe, but I find it attractive.

The holiday is over for some ...........

............... and it's hard going back to work..

In the eye of the beholder.

 In the UK, a "Listed Building" is one which has been placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special  Architectural or Historic Interest. 

Such buildings cannot be demolished, extended or altered without permission of local and national planning authorities.

Each of these is such a listed building.

You can probably see which one most local people would like to see demolished, and the site redeveloped.

The River Plym (2)

Near Shaugh Bridge

   

Merry Christmas

Seasonal Greetings from Plymouth

The River Plym (1)

The Plym is not a mighty river, it is no more than twenty miles from its source on Dartmoor down to the sea at Plymouth. But it has many, very attractive stretches which are easily accessible from the wonderful Plym Valley Cycle/Walking Trail, which starts in the city and  runs for ten miles along the river bank.

Shaugh Bridge is beautiful at any time of year, even this week between the wintry showers.

Low Winter Sun (4)

If you can keep out of the wind there is still a little warmth left in the sunshine.

I recognise one but .....

......... who are these two characters?

They certainly seemed to scare the younger children.

Wherever I hang my hat ..........

........ that's my home.

Band's eye view.

A really good band playing to an audience of one.

Where is the apostrophe man when you need him?

Meet Roger and his team, he is the 3rd person to speak.

Christmas Kaleidoscope

A window at the rear of the House of Fraser Department store, facing New George Street. 

"We are all in it together" David Cameron

.............
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold
                                        The winter trees
                                         William Carlos Williams

Two Sheds

It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see.
                                                                                                              Henry David Thoreau

A Scary Park Bench

A wonderful creature in West Hoe Park.

The Minerva Inn

As gales lash the coast and torrential rain has taken any joy out of Christmas shopping what better place to be than the city's oldest pub. Along with the open fire and WiFi, the Minerva is believed to have GHOSTS, including a screaming man, an Elizabethan lady, five prostitutes and a young girl in Victorian dress.  What more could you want? For details of the results of a PARANORMAL Investigation carried out in 2006 Click Here

Low Winter Sun (3)

You are never alone with your phone.

Low Winter Sun (2)

I see no ships 

Low Winter Sun (1)

Early morning sunshine along the quayside in Sutton Harbour, on Friday. 

Antiques?

One of the many "antique" shops, tucked away in an almost hidden courtyard, in the Elizabethan, Barbican area of the city.


Just the place to get that last minute present for the person who has everything.

Free Range.

A notice in the window of the Barbican Fish Bar.

Buy one get two free.

Reflections of the statue outside Drake's Circus Shopping Mall.

Christmas in the Mall

If you were dropped blindfold, into almost any shopping mall in the UK, when the mask was lifted you would have precious few clues as to where you are, because they are all virtually the same.

For the record this one is the Dake's Circus Shopping Mall, in Plymouth

Christmas Market

I think there must be an EU Directive which requires that at least 50% of the merchandise is identical in all Christmas Markets, throughout Europe.

Sunday in the City

The Fun Fair at the Christmas Market, or as it is now called, The Winter Festival.

Geometry (3)

The Red Wedge House - 

Wedge - A polyhedral solid defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces.

Ford Park Cemetery

Two small splashes of colour at Ford Park Cemetery.

This cemetery is less than a mile from the public air raid shelter, now underneath the University campus, which featured on yesterday's post. Inevitably some of the people killed on that night in 1941 are buried here and there is a memorial to them, along with all the other 1,200 civilians killed in the city during the raids, more than a quarter of whom are buried here.

John Cornelius, 83 years old, a retired aviation consultant living in Connecticut, was a 13 year old school boy in 1941, who lost both parents in the direct hit on the shelter. He and his brother were staying that night just outside the town, at his grandmother's house. John is significant contributor to the costs of the memorial and has made arrangements for his ashes to be laid to rest here in the family grave.