Kenilworth Ave, E17. Tues 8th March, 8.20am

Very foggy this morning when I left the house. The sun was a hazy disc dimly shining from behind a vast curtain of white.

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Pantone Street. Mon 7th March, 1.50pm.

Everywhere you go in central London, you see rows of Boris bikes, and few, if any, are ever in use. Is this just because they only get used in rush hour? Or is the scheme faltering? I hope not because, despite my opposition to Johnson and notwithstanding the fact that I have never used one of the bikes myself, I want the scheme to be a success. I actually tried to use one once but it wouldn't accept my card, perhaps I needed to preregister online.

Long roundabout walk along Mall and up to Old Bond St to see exhibition but gallery was closed on a Monday. Will go back later in the week.



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Barbican Centre. Sun 6th March, 3pm.

Very cold day.

Day of odd family activities at the Barbican. Hip hop maypole dancing. Dolls house puppet theatre. Drumming with pots and pans.

And a large suckling pig, with a strange little secret show going on inside. The kids had to wear tails so the pig wouldn't be scared of them. Linus and Edie thought it was nothing short of marvellous.





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St James' Park. Thurs 3rd March, 1.40pm.

Those pelicans again. There's four that live in the park. Three are pink, one is white. Got talking to a toothless old guy who knew all about them, particularly the one in the foreground, who he called William. He's naughty apparently, disrupting the Queen's parade, chasing school girls into ladies lavatories, and escaping to Leicester Square so the police had to bring him back in a police van. I enjoyed talking to this toothless chap.

Very chilly, not much sun. Played
Miles Davis' On The Corner album, which I love, for all its punk-funk, coke-addled, wah-wah trumpet, Stockhausen-inspired fetid craziness.

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Adelphi district. Wed 2nd March, 1.30pm

Early London flatshare?

Cold today, but wonderfully sunny. Walked around my favourite secret London district, Adelphi.

Also saw this:





Never heard of numismatists before, sounded like numerologists or necromancy of some sort. Turns out to be the study of currency.

Listened to The Good Earth by The Feelies. Good for a sunny, cold early spring day.

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Wood Street, E17 (part 2). Tues 1st March. 9.30pm.

Love this. Staircase to nowhere.



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Wood Street, E17. Tues 1st March. 9.20am

On way to hospital (minor surgery on a mole), my favourite bric-a-brac market. The display window is genius, and, I think, new. Each "unit" has a single item that stands for the whole. (there's a word for that isn't there?) I love the little tiny fry up, for unit 36-38 (the cafe). And the tiny dolls house furniture, for a second-hand furniture unit.













(I'd like to think the word is synecdoche or metonym.
But I think it's probably just "representation".)


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