Murray’s Substack
The Monday Picture and other posts about my time at the BBC and ITV plus random posts on life.
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The Monday Picture (opens the original)
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Good morning, Another shot from my recent trip to London and the Opera.This life-size statue in Broad Court, Covent Garden, is titled Young Dancer and it is a bronze sculpture of a young ballerina seated on a stool adjusting her ballet shoe by the Italian-British sculptor Enzo Plazzotta. Installed in 1988 directly opposite the Royal Ballet & Opera House to honour Covent Garden’s long historical connection to the world of ballet and theatre.The sculpture is modelled on Katie Pianoff, a young Aust
The Monday Picture (opens the original)
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Good morning,Thursday morning view from Waterloo bridge looking south west ish towards Big Ben.I never tire of this view and the tune in my head - Waterloo sunset by The Kinks from 1967.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="900" src="https://substack
The Monday Picture (opens the original)
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Good morning and welcome to today’s Monday Picture this week starring this beautiful Orchid flower.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1000" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UnCq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%
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Good morning,If you looked at a map of the marshes where we walk you would discovered that it is riddled with little channels that irrigate the land, many of these have dried up to mud over the past few weeks and are only now beginning to refill before autumn sets in. The long hot dry spell has also affected the ground, it has until very recently been h… Read more
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Good morning,Welcome to the final Monday Picture in August 2026, where has the year gone, it seems to have flown by. This week we are back in our garden with a photo of three rose flower heads, the Rose is called Scepter’d Isle® and it’s from David Austin. This is how he describes it:This pretty rose bears numerous cupped flowers, each with yellow stamens. They are a lovely light pink, becoming paler on the outer petals, and have a powerful myrrh fragrance. It forms an elegant, upright shrub, it
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