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London was dusted with the white stuff yesterday (more forecast today). It's become an annual thing in recent years or so it seems to me, I'm sure it never used to be thus in the capital.
Expect more snowy shots later but here are a couple I snapped, in my slippers, from the front door about an hour into the first flurries (it's cold ;0)
I like Leake Street's contradictory appearance. On the one hand it looks threatening and gritty. It runs underneath the railway lines behind Waterloo Station and you can hear the trains rumbling overhead. It's exactly the sort of street your mum told you never to walk down.
But when you do it is something quite different, a gallery of graffiti, a showcase of urban artistic talent. It has its own page on Wikipedia and is known as 'Banksy Tunnel' having hosted the artist's 'Cans Festival' five years ago.
It's a place where graffiti artists are encouraged and unlike the graffiti gallery underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the nearby South Bank, you can get up close without fear of getting in the way of skateboarders.
One day, I'm going to go back with my big camera. One day.
The model was used in the London Olympics opening ceremony.
Heard the music as I was walking through the Square on my way home and wandered over to see this group of people all synchro dancing.
They were people of all ages and sizes, all having a good time. It had been planned and rehearsed but to what end other than for fun and a bit of exercise I don't know.
Just another part of London's randomness I love.
Protesters on the steps of St Martin's in the Field, London.
I googled who Tahla was and came across www.freetahla.org a site dedicated to Tahla Ahsan, a man with Aspergers who has been in prison for 12 years without trial in America. Another great example of the freedom, justice and democracy we westerners pride ourselves in.
It's not as if they are from Buckingham Palace people.