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Once again, I have found a gap in the Ipernity groups -  a group dedicated to monuments. I have created a new Ipernity group "MONUMENT" https://www.ipernity.com/group/33143 A place for pictures of monuments and memorials of all kinds - plaques, statues, buildings, gravestones, war memorials................... anything put up to remember something publicly. Ein Platz für Abbildungen der Denkmäler und der Denkmäler aller Arten - Plaketten, Statuen, Gebäude, Grabste…

Click on http://theindietribe.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/three-great-indie-books-reviewed/ or http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/436989026 to read a good review of my latest novel, "ROGUE OF ROUXVILLE". Buy the novel on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/ROGUE-OF-ROUXVILLE-ebook/dp/B009B7KEOU/

The London Transport Museum has made a number of wonderful films about London's transport. These films, specially made during the last century between 1910 and 1970, are wonderful records of London as it used to be. Most of them were made by leading film directors. You can see them online at http://www.ltmcollection.org/films/index.html

I also post pictures taken in an istant on INSTAGRAM - visit: www.instagram.com/yameyamey/ and enjoy yourself!

29 FEBRUARY in one hour's time. It will be Rossini's 54th birthday! He was born in 1792! However, Morarji Desai, one time prime minister of India and an advocate of urine therapy, will only be 29.

Views of a ruined church in Northwest London See my album: "STANMORE": https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/54534   The Brick Church 1632-1850   After Saint Mary's Church came the Brick Church dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, which now stands in ruins alongside the present Church .  Sir John Wolstenholme paid for the building, and Mrs Barbara Burnell, Sir Thomas Lake and Mr Robinson, Church Warden, gave the land.  It was consecrated by Wi…

Most of my outdoor pictures have been taken in good, sunny weather, but lately the weather has been quite horrible. I have put some of my pictures taken in bad weather in a new album: https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/57974     And the good news is that, we have had a very brief glimpse of good weather:   See my album: https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/58524

London's Soho, famed for its striptease & sex-shows and its Chinatown, is full of surprises. Read about one of them in my article: yameyamey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/kong-to-cocteau.html

I am gradually building up an album of pictures taken in South Africa or pictures relating to South Africa. See https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/59504

A collection of photographs taken during our trip to Istanbul in October 2008 may be seen at: https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/100133 .

EXCERPTS FROM A NEW REVIEW OF "ROGUE OF ROUXVILLE" By Adam YAMEY on http://squibleysfictionaddiction.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/rogue-of-rouxville-adam-yamey/ "The Rogue of Rouxville” is an atmospheric and beautifully written historical novel which captures the spirit of the time and people remarkably well." "I was impressed at his authentic portrayal of the characters, some of which were painted so vividly and full of color that I felt I had known them all of my life"…

I will be away 17 Oct - 28 Oct. So, I won't be accessing the Internet much, if at all, during that period.

For my pictures of sights in the City of London - ie within the old city walls, please take a look at my album *CITY SIGHTS* - https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/53670

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/15/iceland-volcano-weather-french-revolution How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution Profound effects of eight-month eruption in 1783 caused chaos from US to Egypt, say experts Greg Neale guardian.co.uk , Thursday 15 April 2010 18.11 BST Article history Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic f…

I am not ignoring you! I shall be on vacation for 10 days. It is unlikely that I will use the internet during this period. So, please don't feel that you are being ignored by me!

I am currently on holiday in Bangalore. Read about some of my adventures there on http://www.yameyamey.blogspot.in/

This is to introduce my newly published novel. [ Many of you will have received a similar message by mail, so please excuse this repetition . ] My book is called "ALIWAL", and concerns the brief life of a young German Jew who left his home in revolution-torn Bavaria in 1849 to seek his fortunes in the Cape Colony (now part of South Africa). The book describes his long, dangerous journey by sea from London to Cape Town. It continues to relate the events he witnessed wh…

I am putting together pictures that illustrate different aspects of the life and times of Queen Victoria.   See my album "VICTORIANA" : https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/66573

The sunny weather that we have been having makes visiting our parks a very popular activity. This time, I have visited Holland Park, and made a few pictures and videos. You can see them, as and when i post them, in : https://www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/album/50591  

I have started a new album "Flowers and Folk", which contains acollection of of pictures of people with flowers. Some of these also appear in my album "BANGALORE", to which I am continously adding new pictures.