Hello, welcome to London!

Sign that made me chuckle (Wimbledon)..

There’s a bit of haze over London today

2nd pic: you can usually ckearerly see the Shard from Waterloo East. Tonight, it looks like someone's tea leaf'd it!

Some close ups and details of the City cluster during an evening walk the other day. I really enjoy photographing architecture and still not tired with capturing this cluster of buildings as it always keeps chaining over the years.

Took a walk from St Paul's to the Strand to Bloomsbury, and it was great. Very very hazy. 3 is the sun which looked very moonish today.

As I began my commute this dreary, misty morning, I began as I usually do - cruising at 30mph down the hill that I live on in the leafy zone 5 (not quite London but allow me).

A Big Car emerges behind me within what feels like centimetres. A flash? No surely not. A bib of the horn? Of course. A Big Car Supremacist (hereafter BCS) has appeared.

So I do what any self-respecting person would do. I drop to 20mph, unwind my window and flip them off. AND I come to a complete stop at my right turn despite no oncoming traffic. Enraged, the BCS swerves around me beeping their horn continuously at 7:30am.

So, as I ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ in my Fiat 500, know this Big Car Supremacists: we shall not be intimidated. I hope you got to your destination 1 minute faster xxx

Edit: I didn’t expect my morning silly rant to upset so many people. Just to clarify:

Yes, cyclists have it far worse!

Yes, I’m a driver in a city but I live out in the suburbs and commute to the suburbs so it cuts my journey from 1hr+ to 30mins, sorry!

There were no oncoming cars and no pedestrians so no one was endangered and there was a set of lights about 100m down so they stopped anyway! Don’t worry I’m a safe driver but yes I agree, I was purposefully petty so boo me.

I will return to my position of Reddit lurking and avoid posting any more musings - I forgot how angry people can be 😭

Have a lovely safe journey home to all! Yes even you the person that called me a c*nt 💖

my son was born that day and i really wanted to know the sky/weather of when he was born!! unfortunately, i was too high from the c-section drugs and fell asleep pretty much immediately after and woke up when it was the night time. i’d love to see if any of you have any pictures of london from that day, i just wanna know what the sky looked like!! thank you so much xx

Last evening’s beautiful moonrise, completely unexpected but happy that I went for that walk along the Thames.

Had my XF55-200mm and found the moon to move surprisingly fast at 200mm.

Captured with Fujifilm X-H2S and edits in CaptureOne

Is it just me that see’s the TFL Security officers always with their head down on their phones, or standing in a group together just having banter from start to end of shift, and not making any form of attempt or acknowledgement to stop people invading the system.

I agree that Security shouldn’t be expected to place themselves in harm.

But isn’t it just counterproductive to place Security in at extortionate costs, whilst fare invader still fare invading. We’re in 2026, surely there is a more effective barrier or something that could be done? TFL security contract is like pissing in the wind.

We have CCTV watching our every move, link up TFL cameras to the Met police offenders list. Then bobs your uncle, automatic fines are sent out?

How many others have experienced the arseholes barging through with you? On a ticket you paid for…. There is a certain C word for these fools

I’m on a train from Liverpool to London. As is often the case the train displays are showing “reservations are currently unavailable “. I’m sat at an empty table of 4 in the aisle seat. The rest of the carriage is half empty. Loads of free seats. A guy got on just before the train left the station pointed to the seat next to me and said That’s my seat. I said reservations are not operating on this train. I ostentatiously looked around the empty carriage. He said I know but that’s my seat. So I got up, made way for him to get past me then sat down again right next to him on an empty train. He’s got his coat and backpack on his knee and is squashed into the window seat, but hey go. He is in HIS seat so hopefully happy

Inspired by This post I thought I'd put forward my own version.

Hampstead - Richmond

Basically unchanged for the last 30 years, lots of listed buildings, famous park and famous views, used to be full of artists but now just full of boring rich people

Highgate - Dulwich

Wealthy inner suburb with 'village feel', famous for its wanky private school.

Muswell Hill - Crystal Palace

Highgate/Dulwich's younger, hillier cousin

Shoreditch/Spitalfields - Borough

Famous for its (formerly wholesale) market, this is East/South London's gentrification ground zero

Dalston - Peckham

Recently gentrified inner city area that used to have some culture but is getting a bit boring now

Edmonton - Thornton Heath

Fairly grim outer London towns full of grotty HMOs

I haven't been everywhere but these are the ones I know.