The Gardens of Delargo Towers - November.

Here we are again me dears at the end of a blustery but mild November.

The cosmos have held on have eventually flowered.

While the petunias' really are over and will be turned out and replaced with winter violas'.

The cosmos in the back garden are flowering despite it all too.

One would expect the geraniums to battling on and indeed they are.

Fuchsias' too

As well as the lovely asarina and osteospermum.

and the unstoppable nasturtiums.

So far so good on the cuttings.

'Doncaster Donny' is impatient for us to get on with sorting things out for Winter and to start preparing for the Spring.

With Spring bulbs and bare rooted wallflowers on the way and a good old sort out it should be all change next month.

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Random - Tiaras

Just because.

Yes I do know that this one of them is a coronet , not a tiara but hey !

I would be happy with any of them, though I do have a couple of favourites

 

Hope you have enjoyed looking as much as I have.


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Random statues of London # 1 of a series

During a wander around the City of London the other day with Alistair we stumbled across a statue I had never seen before. Now, the Parliamentary reformer John Wilkes has always been a hero of mine - and there in Fetter Lane is his statue.

This put me in mind of this project. I had started it a while ago, but as we lost so many pics when our last pcs' hard drive broke it was put on a bit of a back-burner. Without pics of my own to post I will kick off with some random ones from the interweb. As always, I assume them to be in the public domain but will of course remove them if asked. So here we go, me dears, with a random selection of statues I either love, hate or have been surprised by.

How many do you know, answers on a postcard please (or you could just leave a comment).

# 2 - interesting

# 3 interesting

# 4 - loved

# 5 - hated

# 6 - interesting

# 7 - loved

# 8 - loved

# 9 - loved

# 10 - loved

# 11 - interesting

# 12 - loved

# 13 - loved

# 14 - loved

# 15 - love and moved by.

# 16 - loved

# 17 - loved

# 18 - hated

# 19 - interesting

# 20 - hated

# 21 - loved

# 22 - interesting

# 23 - loved

# 24 - loved

# 25 - The jury is still out on this one ! Love the bust hate the coffin.

 Well there tiz me dears.

I am sure you know most, if not all. 

Answers below  and

There are also links to more info on Wiki if you want to read more.

#1 =  John Wilkes (Fetter Lane) 
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#2 = Hodge ( Gough Square ) - He was one of Samuel Johnson's cats.
more info -

#3 = Samuel Johnson ( close to St Clement Dane's church )
more info -

#4 = Jeté by Enzo Plazzotta 1921–1981 ( Millbank )
more info -

#5 = Charlie Chaplin ( Leicester Square ). As far as I can tell no one admits to doing this and it seems to have been removed.

#6 = Beau Brummell ( Jermyn Street )
more info -

#7 =  The angel of peace by Adrian Jones ( Wellington Arch )
 more info -

#8 = The Albert Memorial ( Kensington Gardens,)
more info -

#9 = Southwark War Memorial by Philip Lindsey Clark 1889-1977  ( Borough High Street SE1 )
more info - 

#10 = Boy And Dolphin by David Wynne  ( Cheyne Walk SW10 )
more info - 

#11 = Imperial Camel Corps London memorial ( Embankment Gardens )
more info -

#12 = the Greek god Anteros aka Eros ( Piccadilly Circus )
more info -

#13 = Great Western Railway War Memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger ( Paddington )
more info - 

#14 = The Red Lion, aka the South Bank Lion by William F. Woodington ( Westminster Bridge )
more info

##15 = Daedalus  by James Butler, Fleet Air Arm Memorial ( Victoria Embankment Gardens )
more info -

#16 = Achilles by Sir Richard Westmacott, RA 1775 – 1856 ( Hyde Park )
more info - 

#17 = Sir John Betjeman  by Martin Jennings (  St Pancras )
more info -

#18 = The Meeting Place by Paul Day (  St Pancras )
more info -

#19 = Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun  by  Sir Bertram Mackennal ( Australia House, Aldwych )
more info -

#20 = Sherlock Holmes by  John Doubleday (  Baker Street tube station )
more info -

#21 = The Boy David by Francis Derwent Wood 1871-1926 ( Hyde Park Corner )
more info -

#22 = The Golden Boy of Pye Corner ( Smithfield )
more info - 

#23 = Still Water by Nic Fiddian-Green ( Marble Arch )
more info - 

#24 = Memorial to Edith Cavell by Sir George Frampton ( St Martin's Place )
more info -

#25 = Conversation with Oscar Wilde by Maggi Hambling ( Adelaide Street )
more info -

 Let me know what you think 

and make suggestions for the next set if you like.

Next time with me own photos

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