#Picadilly

[inkcurlsandknives]

Absolutely the Cherry on top of my London book signing adventure was to find a stack of SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW right along side the delightful @ay_chao 's Shanghai Immortals on a table highlighting "Brave New Worlds Fantasy Titles at the Picadilly @waterstones

(disregard the fact I almost knocked over this whole 200 LB heaped table of books in my excitement to get the shot 🤣🤣)

Clearly a perfect pair of Asian fantasy titles to pick up! And I could have asked for a better conversation partner for my first in person book event!!

Filipino POPPY WAR

Lunurin hides as a nun-from the Inquisition branding her a witch, and her Goddess of Storms, who sings of drowning colonizers. When she’s discovered, a marriage-of-convenience might save her from the Church, but it won’t stop the typhoon brewing in Lunurin's bones.

It was big author dream goals finding a whole table stack of my books and getting to do a signing in the moon 🌙 I even got to hand sell and personalize some copies for readers I met in store

Head to my linktree for order links or

Listen to the audiobook on spotify today! https://open.spotify.com/show/0tgWiRNidOQtYJwoq1RWML

[mensfactory]

1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly-P 1 Roadster

The 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly P1 Roadster is a car that Allen Swift received as a graduation gift from his father in 1928.  Mr Swift drove the car for 82 years and is credited with owning a Rolls-Royce longer than anyone else in the world.  He died in 2005 at the age of 102 and ensured that the car would be preserved after his death. 

The 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom I has a 7,668cc engine that some say has 113 brake horsepower. The Piccadilly Roadster style body is believed to have come from a Packard.

So by 1988, when Allen’s Rolls needed restoration, not only were we Connecticut based, but we already established 10 years of restoration experience. His pride and joy would soon enjoy a complete body off restoration, as well as engine rebuild in collaboration with one of the greatest Rolls Royce experts of that time, Frank Cooke. Over the course of M. Allen Swift’s lifetime, he made a great impression on the local AACA meets and car scene. Allen was notorious for being spotted in his Rolls in rain, fog, and sometimes snow. Over the years of his 77 year ownership, Mr. Swift accumulated over 170,000 documented miles. When we completed the restoration of Mr. Swift’s car, he was already at the age of 88. Asking whether he would like us to deliver the car for him, or have him transport the car, he had clarified that neither of which would work, as he intended on driving his freshly restored Rolls immediately. Sure as it would be, Mr. Swift hopped in his Rolls as if it were new once again, and immediately got on the highway and headed home.

Mr. Swift is known for owning a Rolls Royce longer than anyone else in the world- Rolls Royce presented him with a Spirit of Ecstasy award in 1994 for his length of ownership. Reportedly, it still presents incredibly well, and runs like a top.

The Rolls Royce was donated to the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, along with $1 million dollars to care for and preserve the vehicle. You can still see Allen’s car there today, in their transportation gallery.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Monarchy considers man in his ties with society; a republic considers man independently of his relations to society.

- Louis de Bonald

The only flag that is inclusive enough to include everyone equally irrespective of race, creed, or sexual orientation. And even republicans.

[rwpohl]

les nouveaux messieurs, jacques feyder 1928

[amateur-commentator]

A rare day of being a tourist in my own city! Never forget to look up in Soho.

[tragicmelpomene]

[prattlinpeach]

London Day 3: Changing of the Guard! Here we come!

It’s a new day, day 3 and we have lots to do! First, I want to take you on a tour of the restaurant in the hotel, it’s fun! It’s a nice restaurant, wide, open, and inviting, if that makes sense. They have a few walls with animal heads, but just wait…the animal heads are all made of newsprint! Most likely paper mache on the outside, if you look closely,  you can see headlines and typeset in the…

[bertmango]

MegaSigns Ltd Picadilly London

[rodmajorart]

Intercontinental Hotel, Park Lane, London - with a few progress shots. 4 March 2023. (12 x 16 ins). Wonderful day painting with the @londonpleinairgroup #intercontinentalhotellondon #wellingtonarch #hydeparkcorner #pleinair #oilpainting #impressionism #picadilly (at Wellington Arch, Hyde Park - London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpagvO2IG6R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sometimesjenniferreads]

Tried to take a cute pic of Hatchards in London- could not do it justice.

[slaterinc]

a ghanaian man in piccadilly circus, london. (1961)

[gacougnol]

Picadilly Circus London 1968

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Picadilly Circus Lounge in 1925. A hot spot for theater folk and show goers, the Piccadilly Circus Lounge was a "gaily colorful spot in the thick of theaterdom," according to the 1949 restaurant guide Knife and Fork. Demolished in 1982, it is now the site of the Marriott Marquis.

Photo: Max Gerlach via AKG Images

[galina]

Sundays in Soho: taxis gleam lazy over the crook of denham st, crisp clear sunlight strikes my cheek, bitter cold—flotsam of cigarettes piled up at the curb—smell of stale beer, rubber, pastry—squeezing the glass door of bar italia where strangers, who are immediately friendly, are ending their night or starting their day with espresso—berwick st is still asleep under cobbles—in the devonshire they wave away my money, I nurse my guinness at the window, watching dogs and coats and glittering rickshaws—feeling the day could go anywhere from here

[maybebymidnight]

bartylus??!!!??

[blackswaneuroparedux]

London is a city where everyone is reaching out to create a future.

George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)

Piccadilly Circus, London, 1910.