Dunno. Maybe they just liked variety. Here's another memorable Venetian Gothicky Victorian building, the University Museum at Oxford. They're not anal about the numerical basis of their little window… (View Post)

Quite right - not a continuous carved frieze, sorry, brain fart. Memory is one of the carved capitals from which the arches of the blind arcading, or the ceiling timbers, spring, but I can't lay my p… (View Post)

That's so nice, and especially resonant for me - I spent too much of the night of the Great Storm of 1987 in a train in the train shed. though I have to echo your feelings about the diversion of the … (View Post)

Not to criticise your skill and judgement, but it is clearly far beyond my limited comprehension. Surely what you propose is punishing everyone *but* the miscreant? (View Post)

And, like Philippa Whitfield for instance, she's actually worked in a real job - in their cases the NHS. (View Post)