If I Sad Please Smile

This eclectic poetic selection is not a photograph of my fridge door, but instead a communal fridge door. Let me explain - if you go into Neal's Yard in Covent Garden to eat or shop, you can compose your own ode. A sort of adult play area, without any jumping around. See a view in context here.



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The Proof of this Pudding

You will find plenty in the highlands of Scotland, but as far as I know this place is unique in London. Here, you can buy cask strength whisky and rum, from the cask (not to mention the hundreds of varieties they have in bottles) Caldenhead's Whisky Shop in Covent Garden is a an outcrop of Caldenheads, Scotland's oldest whisky bottlers and one of those fascinating little shops that you really must visit. Those numbers on the casks are alcohol by volume, so that rum is 136% proof. Mmmmmmmmm.

A Peaceful Place

Doesn't this look the most peaceful place? Yet, not six feet from that wall you can see, is one of Covent Garden's main performance areas. I have nothing to do with religion, but every now and then I may step from the hustle of the city to enjoy the calm of a place like this. I doubt there are many places with as bold a contrast outside to in, as St Paul's - the Actors Church.

Built by Inigo Jones in 1633 it stands foresquare against time. It was designed and built as part of London's first "Square".

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