Saturday 30 December 2017

Wednesday 27 December 2017

Merry Christmas

The church in the background is St Lawrence Jewry, near Guildhall.  Re-built by Wren after the Great Fire.  Except you are probably sick of Christmas by now.  But not the time off.  Enjoy!

Saturday 23 December 2017

Lets all go home It's Christmas

Wimbledon
Another year nearly over, no more commuting for a few days. Happy Christmas

Wednesday 20 December 2017

Saturday 16 December 2017

Last of the leaves

Leonard Street
Tenaciously hanging on till the very end of the year in Shoreditch

Wednesday 13 December 2017

Exit Waterloo

Waterloo from Platform 1
The blue is the hotel, the pink the London Eye

Saturday 9 December 2017

Reflections at Old Street

Old Street
Building work is going on all around the roundabout as the development circle expends from the city

Wednesday 6 December 2017

Missed it

Hampton Wick
The platform is empty, just for a few minutes.

Saturday 2 December 2017

Walking the dog

Broom Road
Cold and bright.  I'm walking because I have to catch a train, the owner is probably walking because they have to take the dog out.  The dog however, is probably enjoying it.

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Vortex over Clapham

Clapham
It isn't a vortex, just a hole in the clouds, but a poetic eye is needed on another cloudy day, on another slow-running train into work

Saturday 25 November 2017

To the city

Hoxton High Street
The City stops suddenly, the architecture changes from one side of the street to the other.

Wednesday 22 November 2017

Sculptured river

Queen Victoria Strret
Cristina Iglesias specialises in sculptures that look like running water.  This one is outside the Bloomberg HQ, where the Walbrook used to flow

Saturday 18 November 2017

Closing the gaps

Waterloo
Soon the railway will be hedged in on either side by buildings, at the moment there are still glimpses between the blocks

Wednesday 15 November 2017

River bus

Millennium Bridge looking east
The river is grey and purple this morning, it's never the same colour twice

Saturday 11 November 2017

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Fractured art

Shoreditch
Found this one by Kaz.  I don't know if the damage is deliberate, and part of the art, but it's a sentiment I can relate to

Saturday 4 November 2017

East end Autumn

Bunhill fields
The east end of London has a distinct lack of green spaces, graveyards make up quite a few of those available

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Grey sunrise

Clapham
To my eyes it just looks grey, and miserable.  With a glimpse of the sunrise. It's only when I see the photograph of it that I can appreciate the complex shapes of the cloud formations.  Still overcast and gloomy though

Saturday 28 October 2017

Leaves of Autumn

Broom Road
Dead leaves.  Yes.  No I don't know why they look so pretty

Wednesday 25 October 2017

100 Bishopsgate

Camomile Street
Another glass box, but this one has an angle part way up.  I'm sure the architects have many more impressive words to describe how they came to this design, but that's what it is.

Saturday 21 October 2017

Glorious sunset

Wimbledon
One of those beautiful sunsets that disappears so fast, it's dark before you get home.

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Bankside lights

Bankside
According to Wikipedia 'Bankside' is recorded in 1554 as the Banke syde and means 'street along the bank of the Thames'.  These days it's jammed with tourists and school journey parties to The Globe Theatre, but in the morning it is a pleasant walk

Saturday 14 October 2017

Lights across the river

Waterloo to Vauxhall




Soon there will be no more views across the river as the last space fill in with another tower block.  Not even as dark and as small as this one

Wednesday 11 October 2017

South to St Mary Axe

Norton Folgate
The City stops abruptly at it's border with Norton Folgate.  The developers are doing their best to expand the money northwards, but it's in luxury flats not businesses.

Saturday 7 October 2017

Approaching Clapham

Clapham Junction
Evening twilight - the sky is still pale but the lights are on.  It has romantic connotations far removed from cramped commuter trains and busy stations

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Autumn Glory

Redcross Way
Autumn sunshine and a gloriously brilliant yellow tree

Saturday 30 September 2017

Deceptively quiet

Cheapside
A snapshot, a split second, the road looks empty, busy commute are you kidding?  Lots of people hidden in the shadows and the vans and buses arrive a moment later

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Morning on the river

Millennium Bridge
When I look down and see this, part of me asks 'Swop jobs would you?'

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Lunch at the Boxpark

Bethnal Green Road
Friday is treat day, and there are still sunny days in September

Saturday 16 September 2017

Old, new and unfinished

Bishopsgate
Tower 42 (in the background)is still the most elegant of the skyscrapers in the city, the new builds, reflected here, don't come anywhere near it.

Wednesday 13 September 2017

Under the bridge

Queensland Road
Queensland Road has a rusty iron bridge over which the Southern trains pass on their way to Victoria, in silhouette, neither the rust nor the graffiti under the bridge can be seen

Saturday 9 September 2017

Monochrome sunset

Battersea
It's hot, humid and overcast.  The colour has been bleached out of the evening, and it's a monochrme sunset

Wednesday 6 September 2017

Change of meaning

Redcross Way
I have no idea what this poster originally said, it has been decaying for years.

Saturday 2 September 2017

The scruffy end

Southwark Street
Part expensive up by the Tate, part scruffy as it approaches Borough, a place the tourists never see as they stick to walking along the river

Wednesday 30 August 2017

Two Moderns

Sumner Street
The modern glass of the expensive flats contrasting with the heavy dull brick of the museum.  Both ugly in their own way.

Saturday 26 August 2017

Blue under blue

Broom Road
Sometimes the simplest things can be wonderful

Wednesday 23 August 2017

Whittington Gardens

Upper Thames Street
The Gardens are a tiny tree lined square, always shady in summer, complete with statue and fountain

Wednesday 16 August 2017

Window box

Finsbury Circus
I appreciate the window boxes of the old fashioned buildings - they are a feature which today's architects don't bother with, which is a shame. 

Saturday 12 August 2017

Wednesday 9 August 2017

Balancing act

Blackfriars Road
Now this is something you don't see everyday, a cyclist waiting for the lights.  Superb balance.

Saturday 5 August 2017

The Prancing Pony

I was wandering down Petticoat Lane way, back towards the city, but I have no idea which street I was on.  It's one of the pleasures of the lunchtime walk, going down the road you didn't go down last time.

Wednesday 2 August 2017

Late summer

Westbourne Gardens
Dahlias - a sign that summer is past the midway mark

Saturday 29 July 2017

In outline

Clapham
It's only a month past the solstice and the sun is getting lower but it's getting also getting warmer

Wednesday 26 July 2017

City Gardens

St Pauls
The City of London plant the gardens around St Paul's Cathedral and judging from the results they hire people of talent.  I think all the London councils do.  Spaces to sit and have lunch or just walk around make so much difference.

Saturday 22 July 2017

Abseiling a must

Sun Street
Abseiling a mandatory skill for the modern day window cleaner

Wednesday 19 July 2017

Reflections on the 'The Family'

Appold Street
Part of a sculpture by Xavier Corbero called 'The Broad Family' on a  hot and cloudless day - hence the reflected windows from the adjacent building

Saturday 15 July 2017

All threat and no rain

Earlsfield
It's hot and humid.  My trains do not have air-conditioning and all I want is a thunderstorm to cool things down.  But it does not materialise

Wednesday 12 July 2017

Round the corner

Bishopsgate
The great thing about glass buildings is although they may be really boring in themselves, they reflect everything around them.