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Whetstone reflections, High Street Kensington and the South Bank revisited…

(Inverted) tree and moon reflected in the pond in Swan Lane Open Space, Whetstone...

(Inverted) tree and moon reflected in the pond in Swan Lane Open Space, Whetstone…


smart area of London is Kensington, and perhaps reflected here in the entrance to High Street Kensington Tube station... ;)

Smart area of London is Kensington, and perhaps reflected here in the entrance to High Street Kensington Tube station… 😉


View at the junction of Kensington Church Street and High Street Kensington...

View at the junction of Kensington Church Street and High Street Kensington…


Standing on Hungerford Bridge, looking towards the Royal Festival Hall, and to its left, The Shard, London's tallest building, a couple of miles distant near London Bridge...

Standing on Hungerford Bridge, looking towards the Royal Festival Hall, and to its left, The Shard, London’s tallest building, a couple of miles distant near London Bridge…


The Friday Tonic, a free gig in the Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall most Fridays, between 5.30 pm and 7.00 pm, and this week featuring the Soothsayers... :)

The Friday Tonic, a free gig in the Clore Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall most Fridays, between 5.30 pm and 7.00 pm, and this week featuring the Soothsayers… 🙂


And if you wander back towards Waterloo station from the Royal Festival Hall, you'll probably pass by Archdukes at the top of Concert Hall Approach (and notice the Boris Bikes in the foreground, a latter-day feature of the London landscape ;).

And if you wander back towards Waterloo station from the Royal Festival Hall, you’ll probably pass by Archdukes at the top of Concert Hall Approach (and notice the Boris Bikes in the foreground, a latter-day feature of the London landscape) ;).

More Friday Night South Bank-ery…and The Fortune Theatre, Russell Street…

Starts today…illuminated sign outside the Royal Festival Hall…


Wagamama…beneath the Royal Festival Hall…


The very long-running “The Woman in Black” (I must have seen it more than twenty years ago!), at the Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, Covent Garden…

Friday night on the South Bank

Curious building in front of the London Eye…


The Royal Festival Hall Foyer: a card beside the knitted dolls reads, ‘Gothalicious, anon, HM Prison Send, Surrey (women), Needlecraft’


The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room…

Hungerford Bridge and the South Bank

Busker on Hungerford Bridge, performing a steelpan version of Glenn Miller’s ‘In the Mood’ :).


Artwork currently in front of the Royal Festival Hall…


…and a sculpture currently beside the Hayward Gallery.

South Bank and Finchley Central…

Against the light, South Bank, early evening…

‘I’m celebrating being an African Woman. That’s what I’m celebrating’…Bongiwe Mba…exhibit in the Unlimited Global Alchemy exhibition, Royal Festival Hall.

No 460 bus, crossing the railway bridge at Finchley Central, around 7.45 pm tonight.

Last day of the London Olympics…Marathon spectating

An Irishman, from County Kerry apparently, after performing a jig for spectators outside Waterstone’s, near Trafalgar Square.

A precarious viewing platform. on top of a postbox, in Northumberland Avenue.

A welcome pint for me, watching the finish of the race, at a free viewing in the Royal Festival Hall.

A dramatic Petersfield sky, a South Bank whirly-gig…and Jessica in excelsis

Taken through a train window at Petersfield station, en route from Portsmouth to Waterloo this evening…

A South Bank whirly-gig, in the Priceless London Wonderground, not far from the London Eye.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I witnessed the climax to Jessica’s wondrous gold-winning Olympic performance, in the company of several dozen other noisy and enthusiastic souls, in this free showing at the Royal Festival Hall this evening…and what a way it was to win a gold medal…or three ;).

Down by the riverside…

The London Eye, around 8.45 am this morning…

A London skyline, upstream from Hungerford Bridge…done in cyan.

Concert Hall Approach, on the South Bank, with a number 77 bus to Waterloo…

South Bank curiosities……

Sweets of the World…in the Royal Festival Hall.

Curious notice in the Royal Festival Hall…but whatever, may they live happily ever after :).

The Queen Elizabeth Hall, where I eventually found some kind of refuge (and a welcome pint), from the crowds and the rain after last Sunday’s Thames pageant.

Good Friday at the South Bank…

The Cooperative Bus, South Bank.

Exhibition dancers at the Strictly Easter Ballroom event, in the Clore Ballroom, at the Royal Festival Hall.

Captain Franko, escapologist, aided by a lass from Glasgow, and a chap from the Czech Republic.

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