Sanity grows in parks

I was in the library the other day when perfect strangers spoke about how awful it would be if our library closed.  ‘Yes,’ said one woman, ‘it will be dreadful if the libraries go, but if they shut the parks… people will go mad.’  This photo shows a floral display (red, white and blue?) in Southwark Park. It’s my nod to the royal wedding. Of course, Kat and Will will never be without parks; we had better keep our parks, too, or else…

Double Happiness!

Occasionally, the camera and I venture beyond Peckham.  This is a young man employed in the kitchen of a restaurant or hotel near London’s Carnaby Street (an assumption based on his clothes).  He’s taking a break and by squatting and shielding his face, he has created privacy out on the street. He reads a book… nearly at the end now.  He's also holding a lighter and pack of Double Happiness cigarettes, a Chinese brand, for times when single happiness is not enough.  

When Art met Music

How else to paint Handel, if not with care?  This is the packaging on an artist’s work soon to be unwrapped and hung -- with care -- at an exhibition space in Peckham.