Some say I live a glamorous life in the fast lane, others claim that I hardly do anything at all apart from laze around and watch telly. The reality is somewhere in between; I have a drab and dreary existence where I try to get by doing as little as possible but enjoying it as much as I can. So, here's the breathless excitement of a typical working week.
Monday 23rd June. Leadenhall Street. EC3
Off to the City today. Leadenhall Street, the heart of the great British insurance industry and thronged with famous, iconic buildings.
Monday 23rd June. Leadenhall Street. EC3
Off to the City today. Leadenhall Street, the heart of the great British insurance industry and thronged with famous, iconic buildings.
Look at that monster; nearly every view in the city contains the gherkin.
Mies van der Rohe
Mind der Gap.
The old P&O building being demolished from the ground floor up. CU building and the NatWest Tower in the background.
The glass box lift.
Gherkin, Coffee Pot, Cheesegrater
Gherkin, Coffee Pot, Cheesegrater
Tuesday 24th June. Rosebery Avenue. EC1
Wednesday-Thursday 25-26th June. Old Street. EC1
Stuck in the back of beyond for two days. Old Street has always been horrible and it's not getting any better. I am working in one of those huge office blocks at the Old Street/City Road junction with a perfect view of the Inmarsat building, looking like a colossal space craft.
Below is an aerial view of Starfleet Command dominating that miserable and ugly junction and its daft flying sculpture. I don't want to be negative but I do not like coming here very much . The people where I am working are always stroppy and constantly bitching and beefing. Poor sods; that is what working in Old Street does to you. I try not to talk to anyone.
What a dump!
The best part of Old Street is the way out.
Bunhill Fields Cemetary, definately the most exciting part of Old Street.
Surely, that's old Prince Charlie; get closer, maybe one of those bints looks like Camilla. Nah, too animated.
Not quite so exciting today; down to King Cross, stroll up the Grey's Inn Road and cut through to Rosebery Avenue before the junction with Theobalds Road.
No.1 Grey's Inn Road
Wednesday-Thursday 25-26th June. Old Street. EC1
Stuck in the back of beyond for two days. Old Street has always been horrible and it's not getting any better. I am working in one of those huge office blocks at the Old Street/City Road junction with a perfect view of the Inmarsat building, looking like a colossal space craft.
Below is an aerial view of Starfleet Command dominating that miserable and ugly junction and its daft flying sculpture. I don't want to be negative but I do not like coming here very much . The people where I am working are always stroppy and constantly bitching and beefing. Poor sods; that is what working in Old Street does to you. I try not to talk to anyone.
The best part of Old Street is the way out.
Bunhill Fields Cemetary, definately the most exciting part of Old Street.
Surely, that's old Prince Charlie; get closer, maybe one of those bints looks like Camilla. Nah, too animated.
The Pavilion
Broadgate Circle
Liverpool St station concourse.
Friday 27th June. Borough High Street, SE1
Borough Market is well worth a visit, you can just about stop it through a gap in the traffic.
Sampling the cheese at Neal's Yard Dairy. Yummeee. There's always plenty of tasting and sampling going on here and their cheeses are out of this world. I had a little nibble when I went up the road and, noticing the shift had changed, had a little nibble on the way back. The height of cheek is to have a good old sampling and then not buy anything. The height of stupidity too; I could demolish some nice cheese right now.
After all, it was Friday and really needed to get home and get a bottle of chilled white wine down my throat.
Friday 27th June. Borough High Street, SE1
South of the River today and down past London Bridge to Borough. Borough High Street is a vile traffic clogged dump through Southwark from London Bridge down to the Elephant & Castle but it is full of interesting and historic bits. This is the view north to London Bridge.
Unfortunately, the interesting and historic bits will have to wait for another day because the skies opened and the rain came down at lunchtime canceling the photographs session. Another time maybe.
Borough Market is well worth a visit, you can just about stop it through a gap in the traffic.
Sampling the cheese at Neal's Yard Dairy. Yummeee. There's always plenty of tasting and sampling going on here and their cheeses are out of this world. I had a little nibble when I went up the road and, noticing the shift had changed, had a little nibble on the way back. The height of cheek is to have a good old sampling and then not buy anything. The height of stupidity too; I could demolish some nice cheese right now.
After all, it was Friday and really needed to get home and get a bottle of chilled white wine down my throat.
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