Monday lunch and gelato
We went to lunch at the noodle restaurant again and I tried unsuccessfully to take
a picture of the chef making noodles by hand. Note the ducks hanging by his side.
If you check the link, you will discover that these wonderful pictures are from the
New York Times
Gelato for our anniversary on May 29th
Chocolate and Strawberry
Tuesday visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum
Tuesday walking across the Kensington Gardens.
One lucky little girl on the carousel
Victoria and Albert Museum
We entered the museum from the Exhibition Road door and almost immediately walked into
a room with a lot of Rodin sculptures.
The one behind me is the first major work that he did with only part of a human figure
Getty image of Rodin's John the Baptist peaching
The nursing mother reminded me so much of the pink clay woman in the Rodin Museum
in Paris, but she is not one of his works.
at. There is a reason that I go around taking pictures of information about art that we see.
These screens reminded me so much of ones that you see in Middle Eastern structures. All I
remember is being surprised that they were from Europe somewhere.
Basin that would be filled continually with clean water for washing before entering the mosque
Samson slaying the Philistine with the jaw bone of an ass
Getty photo of choir screen
There were several effigies from tombs taken from Italy on display.
All I remember is that these saints actually come from an English church.
The large wooden facade behind me is from Paul Pindar's business in London.
The Professor would have to stoop to get through this ancient British door.
This room is filled with casts used in creating works of art.
A very thin Henry VIII with a not so thin Elaine/blogger.
One of the several triptychs
This piece of crystal is lighted from the bottom in the museum. The vase glows.
Althought it is in the glass collection it is not glass but rock crystal.
The inner court at the Victoria and Albert Museum. I suspect that we actually only looked at exhibits in one wing of this massive building.
Lunch at a Polish Restaurant
Lunch at a Polish restaurant.
Churchill in the photograph above me.
Eating brown Polish bread.
We had the set lunch. It had two courses. The first was a really delicious tomato soup
with tiny noodles.
The menu listed the main course as being breaded pork with mashed potatoes.
We were a bit surprised when we were served the Polish version of Wienersnitzel.
Daquise began life back in World War II as a gathering place for exiled Polish soldiers.
Today the employees are still from Poland. The menu lists 1947 as its founding date.
Kensington High Street
My understanding is that TKmaxx is actually TJmaxx. However, in the UK there is well-known firm that is TJ something so the decision was made to alter the name for the corporation in the UK
The only picture that I took in TKmaxx. A wall of sunglasses on the left with a long display counter of them on the right. It is a mystery to me why they carry so many. This store has three floors.
On the ground floor are luggage as well as women's handbags and other accessories. It also carries all of the cosmetics and skin and hair products that you can but at a store in the U.S. The first floor carries men's clothing and accessories. The basement is both women's and children's clothing and shoes.
Across from TKmaxx was another Aubaine restaurant.
From Kensington High Street, I turned onto Kensington Church Street.
St Mary Abbots Parish Church, Kensington - Home
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An alley way behind an iron fence.
Ordinary houses along Kensington Church Street.
Lace curtains have not gone out of style in London. They still are an excellent way to let in
sunshine while providing privacy.
Just a few interesting houses along the way.
The Churchill Arms
Something tells me this is no longer a timber merchant.
And I do not remember even taking this picture so I cannot tell you its significance.
Back in our Neighborhood
A motorcycle policeman stopped all of the people on the sidewalk so that
this convoy of cars to turn into a private street leading to Kensington Palace.
I have decided that two architects who could not agree with each other designed this house
on the corner of Palace Court and Bayswater.
The buildings across the street from where we live.
Our building. We live on the third floor where there is a metal railing and the window is open. Our other window on the left has the concrete balcony. However, there is no door leading out onto the balcony. The other half of the BYU Centre is to the left with the rounded window on the second floor.
This is the house on the corner of Moscow Road and Palace Court. It looked exactly the
same two years ago. It is the house that will never be completely renovated. There is still
scaffolding on the front of the building as well as the green wall that surrounds it.
The house that will never be finiished.
Because new scaffolding was being constructed on the side of the house, there was a temporaty gap in the fence.Mjuch to my dissappointement the interior doesn't look finished either.
Interesting apartment building at the end of our street.
Greek Orthodox church on Moscow Road
Some day I am going to check to see if it is possible to go inside this church to see
what it is like.
A Christian presence in every community
As I have looked at web pages online, I have noticed that some sites say the church is Church of England. Others list it as Anglican (familiar to Canadians by this name) or Evangelical.
St Matthew's Church, Bayswater
www.stmatthewsbayswater.org.uk/
Welcome to St Matthew's Church, Bayswater. We are an Anglican church in west London, just north of Kensington Gardens. Our congregation is made up of ...
St Matthews is a friendly and traditional parish church which welcomes people from all traditions – or none. Our services are distinctive within the local area for the use of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) at most services. We find it has a beauty of language that is hard to match and it helps us to engage with the beauty and holiness of God.
St Matthew's Church John Johnson (d. 1920), Designed 1880; built 1881-82. Bargate rag-stone with Box-ground and Bath-stone dressings; interior, Corsham stone. St Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, London W.2.
St Matthew's Church stands out in its narrow road because of its spire, which Osbert Lancaster once described as "lofty and uncompromisingly Evangelical" (41). At 240' or 73 metres high, the spire is, in fact, one of the tallest in West London. John Johnson had a knack of making his buildings prominent. He was also good at suiting style to purpose: the other noticeable feature of the church, which replaced an earlier Italianate chapel on this spot, is its unusually wide clerestoried nave. Intended to accommodate the expanding congregation, and to provide an unobstructed view of the altar, this is fifty feet or over 15 metres wide — making it even wider than Westminster Abbey's (all figures from "The Parish Church of St Matthew"). Since the side aisles are in the buttresses, and the transepts are shallow, almost all the width can be used for the main seating area. By one estimate, the church was able to seat over 1,500 people (Elrington).
This looks like a single family dwelling just down from St Matthew's Church on the corner
of St Petersburgh and Moscow Road
St Matthew's spire above the roofs of buildings on Palace Court
Three rows of parking on Palace Court. Both sides of the road and one parking area down the center/centre of the road.
27 Palace Court
29 Palace Court, City of Westminster, London
The BYU Centre
We enter the house at the door of 27 but we actually live on the third floor of #29.
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