london

i’m sure i remember coming to london when i was young and seeing some city gents in their bowler hats, but since then i’ve only seen one chap wearing a bowler and he was a nutty chap standing on a street corner, shouting religious words to anyone who would listen, after a hard day in the office. but he did look like a genuine bowler wearer.
perhaps when i get to heaven i’ll meet him and tell him i remember him well.
however, yesterday, i spotted this chap with a bowler hat coming out of the Financial Times building. he even put his bowler on for a moment but then whipped it off as he ran for his cab.

from the quality of this shot you can tell i’ve been on a photography course can’t you !

i discovered an island yesterday. i suspect someone found it before me (and put this sign up) but i thought i’d go exploring and consider if it was the kind of place i’d like to live

it contained one small mountain and a number of trees

looking the other way it was clear to see that it was a long thin island separated from the main land by two busy roads. it was nice to see a bollard was already nesting here so i felt quite at home

the view westwards was a little disappointing. instead of a vast expanse of sea, all i could see was a BMW garage and a bendy bus

on the way back i spotted this treasure map. the photos above were taken at location 6 – the strangely unmarked island.

norman is an island apparently.

can you spot the coffee cup ?

st george’s gardens is a funny little place in the middle of london, full of dead reformers (except for the ones who got body-snatched i guess!)

despite all the great names buried in this place, there’s a number of huge tombs.

this one had the identification faded away

it made me think that even if we’re fantastically successful in life and get buried in a massive tomb then eventually any memory of the real us is forgotten. if it’s just all about living, dying then being forgotten it all seems a bit sad !
(thankfully i belive there’s more to life than that so no need to get all depressed !).
here’s a picture from outside the gates.

henrietta mews (because she’s a cat?)

st katherine’s dock was previously beyond my range of walking from paddington but since i’ve started getting in to paddington at 7am having already done an hours work i’ve allowed my morning trecks to extend. meaning i can get to a 9am meeting over there with time to spare.
if ever you visit the Tower of London, or Tower Bridge, you should make time for wander round the very pretty docks

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have you ever been to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London ? you should do, especially when it’s free (like it was yesterday for Shakey’s birthday):

the inside is quite amazing (unless you stand in the middle in which case you get wet on rainy days):

and there was plenty of entertainment: