Tag Archives: London

Apr 07 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

Big beetle building

Tuesday 7th April 2026, 11.20am (day 5,339)

Big beetle building, 7/4/26

Surely the title of this post is self-explanatory. I love it. I just wish I could remember exactly where I took this picture: it is somewhere on either Howland St or New Cavendish St, somewhere very close to the BT Tower. But I cannot find it on Google Street View (last updated in that area in about 2021) which suggests it has only been there for a couple of years. Great effect, though: and presumably functional in some form or other. Going on the way all the pipes run into it I assume this is the air-con, or possibly the pillar of the structural integrity of the superframe, or something.

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Apr 07 2026
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Daily Post, Interior

Breakfast with good fortune

Monday 6th April 2026, 9.55am (day 5,338)

Breakfast room, 6/4/26

I don’t know, I spend the whole day — and a public holiday, no less — in one of the planet’s most significant cities and I feel like depicting at the end of it is breakfast. What this says about me, I no longer care. Actually I am quite happy with this picture: like many of the ones I like the best it is the one I intended to take when pressing the shutter. Over the road, the “Good Fortune Studio” stayed just like that throughout my 48 hours at this particular Travelodge, and that says something too.

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Apr 05 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Fallen bicycles

Sunday 5th April 2026, 2.20pm (day 5,337)

Fallen cycles, 5/4/26

The legacy of Storm Dave. We will rebuild.

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Feb 02 2026
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Daily Post, Sport

Half-time huddle

Sunday 1st February 2026, 11.20am (day 5,274)

Half time, 1/2/26

The players of AC Soulseek ponder the 45 minutes that are to come, though not without unhappiness, as they are 3-1 up at this point. Wasn’t I here basically a year ago? Yes, but I cannot honestly think of a more agreeable place to spend a Sunday morning in London — as long as it isn’t raining.

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Jan 31 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

The holy temple of Ganesh-with-Pigeon

Saturday 31st January 2026, 1.55pm (day 5,273)

Ganesh with pigeon. 31/1/26

The Hindu religion seems quite into its animalistic deities and idols, so I am sure that Ganesh and all his colleagues are quite happy that this superbly kitsch temple facade in Walthamstow has clearly become home to a number of pigeons.

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Jan 30 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Barbican

Wednesday 28th January 2026, 11.15am (day 5,270)

Barbican estate, 28/1/26

I like the Barbican estate in the City of London, particularly on a sunny and pleasant day. If someone were to offer me the chance to live anywhere in London (it’ll never happen) I would choose here, it just seems like a fairly peaceful and attractive spot despite, or perhaps because of, all the brutalism. It’s interesting to look at a map of modern London and trace the outline of the old medieval, walled city: many of the place names make it clear what used to be there — Moorgate, Smithfield, Barbican.

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Jan 29 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Approaching the Temperate House, Kew

Tuesday 27th January 2026, 12 noon (day 5,269)

Kew Gardens, 27/1/26

A first-ever visit to Kew, and yes, it counted as work — as the nation’s premier botanical gardens this was a crucial node in the networks of information, learning and capital which formed the basis of the British Empire from the 18th century on, and to which St Helena and Ascension Island were intimately linked. Ahead, one of the entrances to the Temperate House, which at one point was the largest glasshouse in the world, and is still the largest surviving Victorian one.

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Jan 26 2026
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Living way up in the air

Sunday 25th January 2026, 2.00pm (day 5,267)

Walthamstow apartment, 25/1/25

I am now staying in London for a week, and for all of it I am going to look out of my hotel window and see these balconies. I wonder whether the couch you see here will be used much in January, but I guess it’s something that makes one’s elevated rabbit hutch a somewhat more agreeable place to live.

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Oct 20 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

World’s biggest spark plug

Monday 20th October 2025, 9.15am (day 5,170)

Post Office Tower, 20/10/15

The Post Office Tower, as seen from room 337 of the Farringdon Travelodge — this morning, but also the last three mornings. It definitely looks like a spark plug, though — or possibly, some bizarre toy (let’s not go there, though).

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Oct 20 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

Sunday activity, Clapham Common

Sunday 19th October 2025, 10.55am (day 5,169)

Clapham Common, 19/10/25

There are, always, worse things to do on a Sunday morning — as long as it isn’t raining, and the showers just about held off until the match finished. Not that the players of either Mala Vida (which I’m sure means ‘Bad Life’ so perhaps it’s irony) or Parthenope FCs responded to my attention by being able to score a goal between them. But hey, the backdrop was pretty good.

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