Images From Finchley

Real & Virtual Worlds

Passenger Pigeon

The Passenger Pigeon succumbed to hunting and the wanton destruction of its natural environment by the white settlers of North America. It was not the…

January 1, 2013

Birds, Flora & Fauna, Football, Transport
Racing Legends – Driven to Destruct?

The BBC is currently running a short series of programmes about British motor racing legends. The first, last night, was about Sir Stirling Moss and…

December 28, 2012

Aircraft, Car, People, Transport
Compliments Of The Season

I don’t care what the Weatherman say’s if the weatherman say’s it’s raining… Which is exactly what the forecast for the Holiday Season is, so…

December 24, 2012

Computer Game, Simulation
Willesden Wonderland

To start this post I guess I should announce to my readers that after years in the wilderness watching / flying aeroplanes, having children (well…

December 23, 2012

Photography, Train, Transport
The History Behind…

…A Schoolboy’s Journey. Much of my story writing on WordPress until last Tuesday has been from direct personal experience with the exception of the occasional…

December 13, 2012

General, History, Story, Train, Transport, True
A Schoolboy’s Journey

Peter kicked disconsolately at a stone that had somehow escaped from the manicured flowerbed and rested on the smooth asphalt of the platform. He had…

December 12, 2012

Fiction, Story, Train, Transport