An old sign at Alcatraz.
Return to Golden Gate
A sight that never fails to impress.
London in colour, 1927
Lovely video from the British Film Institute showing London in colour in 1927. Everything is so familiar yet so very different.
Irish Coffees
A hard day of training at Automattic.
Alcatraz Dining Room
Back in San Francisco, this time with a trip to Alcatraz. This is the dining room where a solitary occupant sits in the decaying gloom. It’s creepy now, and would have been just as creepy back in the day.
Joe Strummer Subway
A depressing faded subway under an unpleasant concrete flyover on Edgware Road is not the best way to be remembered. Really this place couldn’t be any greyer.
Orange Monkey
This little guy was in Roundhay Park, Leeds. He (or she, honestly I think I’ve done well identifying the species as monkey) refused to look at the camera so here he is enigmatically looking into the distance.
Before I die…
Found while walking along Regent’s canal. I like the aspirations of owning a robe and watching Ghostbusters 3. Not so sure about the ‘touching a human brain’ one!
Tropical non-Russian Meerkat
Seen at the aptly named Tropical World in Roundhay Park, Leeds. No dodgy Russian accents detected.
Reflected Opulence
Along a stretch of Regent’s Canal are a series of magnificent houses. I’ve never seen them used by anyone, but I like to imagine grand parties and shadowy events happening. On a still day I might see both.
A Life In London 