Friday, 23 September 2016

Kensington High Street

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People in Kensington still travel. There are more travel agents than anything else in the High Street. Unlike Tottenham High Street, where t...
Monday, 19 September 2016

Corner cafe

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It was a late evening last night - selling stuff and food at a flea market, got home after a long clearing up session at 12.30. Today I am e...
Thursday, 15 September 2016

Lift

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As I walked up to the lift back up to training at Westminster City Hall 10 Queens Gaurds in full uniform with red jackets and bear skin hats...

Kensington High Street

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It's hot. A crocodile of private school girls lines up to cross the street. They are wearing awfully old fashioned pale blue gingham sum...

Reasons to be cheerful

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A random stranger (woman) on the escalator today excused me and told me she absolutely loved my figure (me - I'm not usually that keen o...
Friday, 9 September 2016

Continuing the integration

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Dog walker dressed in black training outfit walks through Kensington Gardens with 4 dogs, all neatly walking to heel, quietly, without the h...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Punk rock old lady

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She looks German - short blond hair, streaked to disguise the grey. With her son, who sort of looks my age, perhaps a decade younger (I'...
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Monday, 22 August 2016

West London Oddities

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The flamboyance of a Worker dressed in blue pinstriped suit, colourful shirt and tie, with a handkerchief in the breast pocket. Styling this...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

The taste of 1978

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Today at Pop's we have mostly been channelling 1978. He came down wearing his white jeans that I remember from the 70s - he sewed patche...
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Thursday, 11 August 2016

Morning smiles

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Getting onto the westbound circle/district line platform at Victoria for the inevitable wait for a circle line train, was greeted by a stron...
Thursday, 28 July 2016

Telephone box

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It's been decades since I frequented a telephone box (I was a fairly early adopter of the mobile phone) - we used to use the one in my g...
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Views from the escalator

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Red patent leather brogues with a white sole, worn with rolled up black jeans and no socks. 

The rabbit and the bear

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On a commuter tube in the morning. Victoria line to.... A woman sits tucked into the arm of a huge man, shorts and sneakers, big beard, tuft...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Screenface

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Lunch time Holland Park. Route through the park to Kensington High Street. Me and the builders of the neighbourhood are hanging on the bench...
Monday, 18 July 2016

Snot nose

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Cute children clinging to the pole in the centre of the carriage enjoying the roller-coaster-ish effect of the train lurching around on the ...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Working in Posh Neighbourhoods

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OMG they steam clean the pavements in Kensington. Who knew? It takes two men and a double ended machine. Extraordinary.
Monday, 11 July 2016

Ultimate Oxymoron

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Camouflage outfit - top and pants, in the colour way of yellow and neon pink - the question in the office was - where are you going to hide ...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Escalator

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It's been a while since I had a good escalator story. But I noticed it a couple of weeks ago and checked it today. At Manor House tube s...
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Friday, 24 June 2016

Fifedom of Londonium

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So, now Scotland feels it is democratically unfair to make them leave the EU and so will demand another vote on leaving the United Kingdom. ...

Rich neighbourhoods

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I don't know why I'm finding it hard working in a rich neighbourhood but I am.  This isn't just the City - fancy offices full of...