Rocking on

Still rocking... on Portland this time. Here is some Portland stone waiting to be turned into part of something monumental.

Recently I bumped into Geoff Smith of Stone Firms Ltd - one of the two remaining Portland stone suppliers. He it was, of course, who was dubbed the Limestone Cowboy by the papers, when all sorts of stuff hit the fan after the stone used for the much-heralded South Portico job at the British Museum (intended to match the Portland stone of the original building) turned out to have come from somewhere in France, not Portland.

Not sure how that misunderstanding (or not, depending on whose account you are listening to) got settled in the end (if it did). Can't see that it even matters hugely, because newly-cut stone is never, surely, going to exactly tone in with stone that has been weathering in London for a couple of hundred years or so.

Anyway, he seemed like a nice chap to me.