London Times

 

I'm once again joining Neet at Hickydorums, our host this month at Art Journal Journey, who has chosen Type as her theme. 

Today we are visiting The London Times, the most read newspaper in the U.K.

Although it has nothing to do with the newspaper, Times New Roman is a favorite type/font chosen by many.

The London Times started publishing in January, 1788.

 

It was the first newspaper to use the word Times as part of its name.  This led to other newspapers like the New York Times following suit.  Even though the name of the paper is The London Times, it is read by much of England.

A little known fact is the New London Times not only created their own newspaper, which was the first to use the word Times, the paper also created its own typeface, appropriately called New London Times.  I can't believe my WordPerfect spell checker didn't catch approproately.  Blogger's sure did!

I had a bit of trouble sharing/photographing close-ups

of this man who looked like he might have read The London Times back in the day.

I had the same problem with the two men I placed on this side of the page.

I thought the man in the long coat looked like he might be a newspaper reporter for The London Times.

For this page, I began by researching the London Times when I learned they invented their own font/type.  I found this copy of the London Times on the internet and copied it to a sheet of 110 lb. cardstock.  I computer generated the information about the Times and cut the cardstock to size.  I then mounted both sides to black cardstock backing.  Finally, I added three of the TH paper dolls who looked like they might all be from the same era.  It was hard finding three the same size and era.  Actually, the man on the left looks like he came from an earlier era, but I wasn't going to discount him since he appeared to fit nicely on the page.

Thank you ever so much for visiting today.  Bleubeard, and I are delighted you joined us and hope to see you soon at Art Journal Journey with your own take on Neet's theme Type. 

 

And for those of you who have been following the saga of the bamboo, 

 

here are photos from the clean up.  Sorry, blogger refuses to left justify for some reason.

   Some of you have asked about the clean-up.  The City of Wichita supports and pays for these cleanups out of their budget.  Each neighborhood association who requests a clean up is entitled to one a year.  On a normal cleanup, I would be right there helping throw items into the packer truck, or riding along with a packer driver guiding him through these streets as I have done in times past, like here in 2008, or here in 2009.  I have been doing this a long time, just not always documenting it. 

This however, was not a normal clean up for me.  Yes, that is my camera strap in the photo.  As you can see, there are ample volunteers.

Old and young alike come out to help for this event.  Be aware, there were four packer trucks working their way through the neighborhood this year, so this was just 1/4th the number of volunteers who came out to help.  We have a very strong neighborhood association and I am very proud of the work that is done in it.

Often volunteers must stand around waiting for the packer to crush the trash.

The bamboo is finally gone!

The last of the trash bags (all filled with bamboo) and brush were going in the truck.

It was now time for the volunteers

to move to the next pile of trash to be removed.

There was also quite a back up of cars and trucks trying to navigate around the packer truck and volunteers, too.

And then, as quickly as it started, it was completely over.  My block was now trash free and the volunteers had moved to the next block.

We have now reached the end of the bamboo saga that has taken over my life for the previous week.   Thanks for following along on this journey.  

 

As for my ear, it is marginally better.  I'm not sure what I am going to do about it yet, but I know I am NOT going to an immediate care doctor.  S/he will just give me ear drops and tell me not to get my ear wet.  I had this problem when I was swimming a lot, so I think I know what needs to be done.  I hope to be able to catch up with all my friends today, but I keep saying that, I know.  Thanks for your continued support.