http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/ Book and film reviews, stuff about photography, geekery, plus Dan Sumption's adventures in Sheffield and London. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/comment-page-1/#comment-42986 dansumption Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:47:43 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/#comment-42986 NB "Lions are drinking" is a term used by London boatmen, for times when the tide is so high that it reaches the lions on London's Embankment. NB “Lions are drinking” is a term used by London boatmen, for times when the tide is so high that it reaches the lions on London's Embankment.

]]> http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/comment-page-1/#comment-21186 0742 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:25:00 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/#comment-21186 Missing you. oh please come home, sheffield is like one big fuck off vortex sucking the life out of us now you have gone.. Missing you. oh please come home, sheffield is like one big fuck off vortex sucking the life out of us now you have gone..

]]> http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/comment-page-1/#comment-21176 Jonny Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:44:51 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/#comment-21176 I thought of the Trafalgar lions actually... Maybe the waves of tourists that climb on them? But I'm not a poet. In it. I thought of the Trafalgar lions actually…
Maybe the waves of tourists that climb on them?
But I’m not a poet.
In it.

]]> http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/comment-page-1/#comment-21155 Dan Sumption Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:10:12 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/#comment-21155 Cheers Jonny, glad you liked it. I'm not quite sure about the last line - "lions are drinking" is a reference to the Thames (and also a song by my old band" - when the river's at high ebb, the boatmen say that "lions are drinking" when it reaches the mouths of the lions carved on the embankment. That whole tides of blood thing sounds a bit *too* dramatic though, and now that I think about it, a bit Enoch Powell. I need to rethink that bit. Cheers Jonny, glad you liked it. I’m not quite sure about the last line – “lions are drinking” is a reference to the Thames (and also a song by my old band” – when the river’s at high ebb, the boatmen say that “lions are drinking” when it reaches the mouths of the lions carved on the embankment. That whole tides of blood thing sounds a bit *too* dramatic though, and now that I think about it, a bit Enoch Powell. I need to rethink that bit.

]]> http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/comment-page-1/#comment-21126 Jonny Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:52:35 +0000 http://www.sumption.org/2007/08/21/london/#comment-21126 Dan, that's lovely. The image of you walking to work thinking of a poem in London makes me miss you. Cos I'm in Sheffield. I like London too; the buzz. Currently listening to Lydia Lunch & Thurston Moore: 'Drowned in Limbo'. J Dan, that’s lovely. The image of you walking to work thinking of a poem in London makes me miss you. Cos I’m in Sheffield. I like London too; the buzz.
Currently listening to Lydia Lunch & Thurston Moore: ‘Drowned in Limbo’.
J

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