Leaf 327 – Looking Back
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Paul Rafferty - Big Ben After Rain (Portland Gallery)
For two years, between 2021 and
2023, I lived just around the corner from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of
Parliament. It was an eventful time to be living there – with the Queen’s
Platinum Jubilee; the Queen’s funeral; the King’s Coronation; plus, a quick succession
of Prime Ministers, hurriedly coming and then, just as quickly going. During
that time too, after a period of silence which had lasted several years, the
restoration of Big Ben was finally completed.
Mirroring the pavement’s
wet sheen –
Westminster chimes.
