Olivia's Photo Annexe

2005-12-15T19:39:00.000Z

2005-04-13T22:02:00.000Z

St Paul's Methodist Church. Guess where? Across the road from the MFA Houston! It looks Anglican. And then, the red-brick Adamesque Presbyterian church down the road looks Methodist. Odd swaps.

2005-04-13T21:58:00.000Z

A Renaissance angel at the MFAH - again Dad took these pics and I don't know the titles, won't even guess the artists unless I can.

2005-04-13T21:54:00.000Z

A Manet at the MFAH. In this I see the silence and isolation that everyone tends towards on lazy summer afternoons.

2005-04-13T21:48:00.000Z

FYI, my Dad took all the photos of the MFAH. He likes the action paintings and the Canalettos. This one, unhorsed!

2005-04-13T21:46:00.000Z

Lobby of antiquities floor at MFAH

2005-04-13T21:44:00.000Z

Definitely 20th century room at MFAH. This looks like a cast by Picasso, one of which was sold at Christie's last year. Also nice and shiny.

2005-04-13T21:42:00.000Z

Classical bronze figure against the patron wall at the MFAH

2005-04-13T21:40:00.000Z

Outside a 1960s section of the MFAH

2005-04-13T21:39:00.000Z

The tunnel linking the classic wing with the contemporary at the Musem of Fine Arts Houston. The colours change in a continuous cycle.

2005-04-13T21:36:00.000Z

Tiffany window at MFAHouston

2005-04-13T21:34:00.000Z

A water feature outside the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

2005-04-13T21:32:00.000Z

Exterior Portland Conference Center, Oregon, USA.

2005-04-13T21:31:00.000Z

Roof of Portland Conference Center

2005-04-13T21:30:00.000Z

Windows at Portland Conference Center

2005-04-13T21:26:00.000Z

Hanging from the ceiling at the Portland (Oregon) Conference Center

2005-04-01T22:14:00.000Z

Full dress, swords drawn. Some of the Royal Horse Artillery based up the road. They pass nearly every morning, usually in regular greens. Wonder what the occasion was for this?

2005-04-01T22:10:00.000Z

With my best friends Lydia and Anthony, Sept. 04. We grew up together.

2005-03-19T04:16:00.000Z

With Natty in November. It's always Nat who gets thrust into my arms. Nat takes after his dad, and Theo takes after his mum (my cousin). They're about 5 months old now and really active, learning to turn. Nat kicks, wriggles and sneezes (I have bruises and a cold right now from last week's visit.)

2005-03-19T04:05:00.000Z

See? Olivia and Christopher playing in the garden at Kingston, 1980.

2005-03-19T04:01:00.000Z

Speaking of babies, on the left there is my oldest friend and fellow-preemie Christopher, graduating from Cambridge way back whenever (that's his brother Matthew on the right)...Our Mums met in the maternity ward at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and have been firm friends ever since.

2005-03-19T03:56:00.000Z

If I put Michelle's pic up she will kill me, so here is my cousin-in-law Tony, their son Zack, and one of the twins. M & T have been together for over 10 years. They tried hard for Zack (who is now 4), and then after a miscarriage, got hit with twins. All without IVF.

2005-03-19T03:51:00.000Z

Cousin Michelle and Tony's new twins Theodore and Nathaniel in September.

2005-03-19T03:45:00.000Z

Serenaded on the train to Venice. They were tuneros from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain on a tour of Europe. I must say, my name sits well in Spanish songs.

2005-03-19T03:39:00.000Z

Shiho and me at a restaurant in Verona, Italy, where we and another friend enjoyed 4 nights of opera and good wine.

2005-03-19T03:36:00.000Z

Dad and me cracking crab shells at Mum's apartment in Dallas. He came up from Houston to see me before I returned to London. After dinner we had a treat of baklava, visible on the table in front of me.

2005-03-19T03:32:00.000Z

Gorgeous dinner at Terry & Johanna's house. L-R: Pierre, Mum, Aunty Rita, Terry, and Jo. They've been together 10 years and finally tied the knot last summer.

2005-03-19T03:30:00.000Z

Some of my boy-cousins. On the left, Paul (15) & Mike (24) - Aunt Eve's sons. On the right, Pierre (37) and Terry (33) - Aunt Rita's sons.

2005-03-19T03:25:00.000Z

Aunt Eve and me ringing in 2005 at One99. We'd had a sherry aperitif, two bottles of Riesling, and champagne. I don't like champers so I was fine and so was Mum. But Aunt Rita got tipsy and Aunt Eve got drunk and said the funniest things to Uncle Tom in the car on the way home.

2005-03-19T03:20:00.000Z

Mum and Aunt Rita. Four of us went to the swish new One99 restaurant in Orangeville, Ontario. (It means 199 Broadway, NOT $1.99 as Mum had joked early on.) We celebrated New Year's Eve there with a 7-course meal. Even the mayor was there. It was like a huge dinner party with all courses timed and served like clockwork.

2005-03-19T03:07:00.000Z

My darling J-Jay in Canada. We got pretty snowed in during Christmas and it dropped to -minus 30 or 40. He's an American Eskimo sled dog and would make his outdoor trips as short as possible.

2005-03-19T03:04:00.000Z

Funny how they all look alike except for the youngest

2005-03-19T03:03:00.000Z

Evadney with Hannah who is now 4

2005-03-19T03:02:00.000Z

Me, Mum, Dad at the restaurant in Dallas with my cousins - we were tired, cold and hungry with the drive up from Houston.

2005-03-19T02:58:00.000Z

Compare to the sleeker trams of the Houston METRO system, just like the ones in Montpellier, France. Downtown Houston has also always had free San Francisco-style trolleys (on wheels without the rails).

2005-03-19T02:48:00.000Z

This is what the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) trains look like. Just like the DART buses!

2005-03-19T02:47:00.000Z

Gigi and me messing about at the new train stop in Old Town Plano, Texas

2005-03-19T02:45:00.000Z

Look, my very own lane at the Legacy Drive center!

2005-03-19T02:43:00.000Z

Gigi and me at the new Legacy Drive shopping center in Plano, Texas - in November

2005-03-19T02:41:00.000Z

My Dallas cousins. Back row, Stan and Evadney with kids and me. Front row, Charlene and Amber.

2005-03-19T02:36:00.000Z

Some of my friends from uni I met up with in Houston last December. L-R: Michael, Diana, Jason, Chris

2005-03-19T02:31:00.000Z

Harewood House, Yorkshire, home of the Earl of H, of the Lascelles family. Relatively new fortunes made in the Indian colonies a couple hundred years ago. This house is Neoclassical.

2005-03-19T02:27:00.000Z

Some frontage of Longford Castle. Seriously, there was dry-cleaning hanging in the hall, a shopping list on the hall table, muddy boots and bicycles on the front porch.

2005-03-19T02:24:00.000Z

A pretty doorway through which we exited to the gardens at Longford Castle in Wiltshire. It was distracting to notice the family's TV/VCR and boxes of tissues, while our tutors were talking about the paintings...The house is not open to the public.

2005-03-19T02:19:00.000Z

No effects here, this is Carcassonne itself in the glow of its uplighting. A cold night and eerie setting accompanied by the angry rush of the river below. Brrrrrr.

2005-03-19T02:17:00.000Z

Carcassonne across the river Rhône. Doesn't look real, does it?

2005-03-19T02:14:00.000Z

Bronze statue of a Toreador at Nîmes colosseum. I added a glow.

2005-03-19T02:10:00.000Z

The Maison Carré, Nîmes. Soft focus effect here, on Vanessa and Jordan on the steps.

2005-03-19T02:06:00.000Z

All that remains of the Roman Forum in Arles, though the space is still a huge open square with cafes of course.

2005-03-19T02:01:00.000Z

One of my most dramatic yet, a short hike up the hills from the Abbey. The craggy landscape of Provence.

2005-03-19T01:58:00.000Z

I love this one. Vanessa's hippie pic in a field outside of Toulouse

2005-03-19T01:57:00.000Z

The Abbey of St-Michel de Frigolet, somewhere in Provence between Avignon and Arles

2005-03-19T01:53:00.000Z

Also at the Ascot wedding, our old neighbour from when we lived here. The groom's father, my dad's best friend, has bought both houses.

2005-03-19T01:51:00.000Z

Mum and Dad at a friend's son's wedding at Royal Ascot.

2005-03-19T01:47:00.000Z

(Phonecam) The best dim sum in Chinatown

2005-03-19T01:46:00.000Z

(Phonecam) Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, where Lord and Lady Saye and Seale gave us the tour. They are the Fiennes family - yes, related to Joseph and Ralph!

2005-03-19T01:41:00.000Z

My parents met at my uncle's place in Cornwall Gardens, S. Kensington, 1975
I have since learned that he actually lived in the Garden House....which explains the greenery around the front steps in his wedding pics...

2005-03-19T01:39:00.000Z

A surprise in South Kensington - some visiting eastern dignitary and entourage debarked here for a press shoot before entering the hotel.

2005-03-19T01:36:00.000Z

Phonecam pic from Christie's field trip. Part of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Home of the Duke of Northumberland

2005-03-19T01:31:00.000Z

Hodge (who read aloud in the kitchen)

2005-03-19T01:27:00.000Z

Our house in The Woodlands, Texas

2005-03-19T01:07:00.000Z

We departing Officers preparing to install new members into the St Thomas chapter of Psi Chi (psychology). The UST spring formal was literally across the hall in the ballroom so some of us skipped over there after the banquet.

2005-03-19T00:59:00.000Z

Vanessa, Olivia, Lydia at Brown's Restaurant in 2003. Vanessa, my sister and roomie since university, got to meet Lydia, my sister since childhood.

2005-03-19T00:54:00.000Z

Olivia, Alain, Lara outside Christie's Edu (King St) after the 2002 Christmas reception

2005-03-19T00:03:00.000Z

Gigi and me at her apartment in Plano, Texas

2005-03-18T23:59:00.000Z

Early autumn 2003 at Parham House in Sussex