Other Honours

Other Honours I noticed included:

Professor Rosemary Jean Cramp
Emma Freud (For charitable services through Comic Relief)
Professor Mona Siddiqui
Sam Taylor-Wood
Gillian Wearing
Julia Donaldson
Stephen Taylor (for services to School Chess! How cool is that!)

Need to get out more

Sigh.

I find I've started annotating cryptic crossword clues - like chess moves with a ! or ? or multiples of the same. I think I give most praise to wit and brevity.

I need to get out more.

Corner of Fenwick Road

I was rather taken by this fine tree on the corner of Fenwick Road, when I realised that down on the ground there was something just as interesting.

These bollards (rusty hunks of metal) signify, I think, the entrance to the Bellenden Rd regeneration area. The four different designs of bollard all appear here on the corner. All vaguely phallic, all rather annoying. They seem like the left over pieces of a giant, discarded modernist chess set. Really quite unattractive.

If they were going to commission some street furniture - bollards - for the scheme, they surely could have done better?