We are still having extremely mild autumn weather – temperatures up to 18 degrees or 65 in old money, sunny and little wind.
But in the past few days, the leaves have finally started to turn. Nothing like New England, but pleasant for us.
The view across our back garden is over the distressed wall of some garages, which we think is a tiny reflection of the distressed walls in some of the great Japanese gardens. Well, it’s nicer than painted stark white ….
Yeah, well that’s eighteen degrees warmer than it is here, then. Whereabouts in London is this? (Roughly.) I’d guess…Richmond.
No, the other side, near Blackheath, but south of the river still. Many years ago a prissy news editor I worked for commented, when I told him I was moving from Finchley to Putney:
“Not south of the river, old boy?”
Reply (in best Aussie accent): “Yeah, why not?”
“No-one goes south of the river, old boy, except to the Old Vic.”
Very pretty, delicate, English colours.
Yes, but a splash of your fiery maples would be nice, too.
“Not south of the river, old boy?”
Of course it was that kind of prejudice that made it still possible to buy lovely places many years later than in N. London. When I was a student in the mid seventies our rent for a ground floor flat in Putney was £4 a week. I think Blackheath was always pretty expensive, though.
AJP Kroner: That’s an interesting £ sign you came up with, I wonder why. Was it upper case 3 ?
My upper-case 3 is #. No, the days of the pound sign being on an international keyboard have gone, I suspect. I took it from (on a mac) edit>special characters>symbols>currency symbols.
Do you keep the little flag of the international keyboard in the upper right of your menu near the date? I’m sure you know you can select which international keyboard configurations you want handy? When I suddenly need a pound sign I just nip up there and switch to the UK flag (I normally keep my keyboard set to the rather disliked Spanish flag ISO – it conforms to the characters actually printed on the keys). & I know that the pound sign is shift+3 £. I believe it is coming out in whatever typeface I’m typing in. I’ll know when it appears, I guess… [I would’ve thought Special Characters would insert in the selected font…but I was actually trying to be a smarty-pants and use the shift symbol {⇪} but it comes out too small and light. So maybe not?]
Oh, how clever you are. I’d forgotten about the little flag — Norwegian, in my case — I’ll try fiddling with that.
£££@@!!$$%%^^&&**(())__||\\||:;{[[[{{[[<<,,~~““}}
Yes and I was SUCH a smarty pants I even picked the caps-lock symbol instead of the shift one. Duh. Or is it “Doh”. I never can detect the difference. Sorry.
And then you can forget to switch it back (I swear it is MALICIOUS and fails to STAY switched back) and type a lot of miscellaneous accents and punctuation you weren’t intending.
Really, Mr Crown. Such language.
Oh dear. What did I start ?
This little flag thingy, are you talking about Macs here ?
Yes, I’m afraid we are talking about Macs. Sorry to drag your topic off sideways. Your delicate autumn trees and lovely distressed wall are beautiful.
Thanks AJP. I don’t mind topic-dragging, happens all ove and you usually learn something new …