london

here is another psychedelic slick in the same place as i saw the other one. This one looks particularly tie-dye.

there’s been a few stories in the paper about prince harry going out drinking and smoking and generally gavorting.
i suspect it might have been him and his chums who threw this bench in the lake just next to buck-house.

thanks to the new turf (i nearly mispelt that) the environs around buckingham palace looks very green.

telephone boxes at Embankment. these phone boxes have probably got a BT code name and i’m sure Pete will tell us what it is …

come to london. you’re not too late to see the christmas lights.

if you are in london and want to see some fantastic things for free then go to the british library. it’s about 2 minutes walk from Kings Cross / St Pancras Station and 5 minutes from Euston.
Original shakespeares, da vinci notebooks, the magna carta, the original handwritten Alice In Wonderland, original Beatle lyrics etc. All to see and enjoy. and there’s some impressive bookshelves too.
there is even a section on stamps which got me thinking. you can stick a stamp on nearly anything and it will travel to nearly anywhere in the world. that’s why we have the phrase “philately will get you everywhere”. i think

(the blue dog in the foreground is reminding us to be s@fe on the internet)

here are some ladies on the Euston Road making themselves useful

tottenham court road is the street with a million shops selling all your modern electronical gadgetry. they have so much they have to throw some out in to the street and you often see keyboards and other peripherals ‘growing wild’ on bin day.
here is an HP scanner and an Epson printer.

it’s quite common in big cities to see protective fences around and about to protect the celebrity classes from the paupers. This is particularly popular around places like leicester square where they have lots of film premiers.
Here is bench and a little tree protected from the public by barriers. this would be ideal for a celebrity if they were shopping in Selfridges and wanted to have a little sit down and watch the world go by.

it snowed, then it melted a bit and then it froze. the result is very icey.
in fact, walking to work this morning was very much like walking across an ice-rink. by which i mean there was a mighty pipe organ playing 70s disco tunes in the cheesiest of ways. possibly.

as if it wasn’t slippy enough, i spotted a few discarded banana skins too:

some people were fighting back. here was a curly wurly (still in its wrapper). a curly wurly is an excellent anti-slipping device thanks to its elaborate design:

i’ve used the word bonnet a number of times recently. i’m glad about that.
this morning i noticed a number of cars with snow writing on their bonnets. here is one saying London.
the other says Arsenal which must be a satirical comment on the Hutton report making a statement on Sadam’s supposed military arsenal.

there were a number of other cars around which also had writing on them. all of these contained offensive words (some were even spelt correctly) so i didn’t take any photos.

i suspect there is a giant (king kong style) cat living somewhere in london. i shall search for evidence, but for starters here is a footprint in the snow on a phone box.

here are some pictures i took last night of london looking nice at night

The BBC place in Portland Place (Broadcasting House) has been hidden for a while for security reasons. whilst it’s under wraps they’ve decided to put some big art displays on it.

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waterloo station is made of girders (like irn bru). they do look very nice and act as mirror to the minimal pairs of metal lines which the train run on at ground level. i wonder if that’s what they meant to do.
more likely they were just concerned with keeping the roof up.

here is a lovely man selling the Evening Standard outside Cannon Street Tube Station. it was chucking it down with rain and he sat in his little hut with his old fashioned mini candle lamp and he was so cheerful when he told me directions to my destination.
i asked if i could take a photo and he said yes, so here it is. please buy a paper off him and say you saw him here. it’ll make his day (possibly)

there was a great sunrise this morning. real end of the world stuff.

a tree in hyde park