The 38 to Clapton Pond

Rules Restaurant on Maiden Lane is festive the whole year round but is particularly lovely at Xmas… This blog features photos snapped with either a Canon 500D or an iPhone6 as I make my way Londoning around leading & researching my tours. I hope you enjoy them. If you'd like to join me on a London tour, you can book me here… Keep In Touch…      

Here's Inigo, the St Paul's Church cat in Covent Garden, named for the architect of the church Inigo Jones… This blog features photos snapped with either a Canon 500D or an iPhone6 as I make my way Londoning around leading & researching my tours. I hope you enjoy them. If you'd like to join me on a London tour, you can book me here… Keep In Touch…      

Catastrophe, not apostrophe.

And where might one find this plaque? On the Cheese Shop, of course.

Near the site of the first Punch and Judy show in England, as observed by Pepys.

Two teas, milk in one, milk and two in the other; two full English, bread and butter with one and a fried slice with the other, ta… hello… er, hello… service! Waitress… Hello… (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Can't help wondering if this was a patriotic statement gone wrong or a seditious/satirical gesture… (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Street theatre oustide St Paul's Covent Garden, the actors' church. (We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Happy (belated) Burns Night. For a wonderful, and strangely moving reading of Burns's My Heart's in the Highlands , click HERE

Neal's Yard WC2

Great vintage clothes at Blackout II , Endell St, Covent Garden.

When I was a young Old Fart, this is what trains looked like on the tube. Only they were in black and white, of course. This one has been colourised using what The Authorities refer to as The Latest Technology. As an old Old Fart, I am against The Latest Technology. But I find myself liking old trains more and more. Just shoot me now. (Find the London Transport Museum HERE .)