W’s blag

Modern art on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, a statue of Alison Lapper (yeah she really does lack arms).

I can’t recall why I zoomed out when taking this picture…

…but this might have something to do with it…

Trafalgar Square seen from the national museum.

A half-mermaid or something. She *seems* to have two legs (she’s sitting astride a dolphin or something), but at least one of them turns into a fish tail.

Seen from the other side. Rather striking if I may say so.

The Mall leading to Buckingham Palace.

Buckingham palace itself. No I do not know the guy in the bottom right. No, noone else is taking his picture (I was flush up to the statues in the middle of the square, noone to my left or right.) Didn’t even notice him before seeing the picture online.

There’s a LOT of signs in London. Most declare that some act or other (littering, letting your dog shit in the park, crossing the street without looking to both sides, not reading all the signs you see) to be forbidden, and liable to be fined so and so many pounds. Some are rather obvious, and this one just struk me as hillarious, both because of the obviousness of it, and the way it’s worded like a polite warning.

I went for a walk in Bankside, along the Thames

As you can see, the weather was rather gray, (what the #php people informed me was “nice weather” for London,) but it was warm enough. Here you can see London Bridge from a bit away.

A replica of the Golden Hinde.

The dock the Golden Hinde replica was in actually had fish in it. Not small bottomfeeders either.

I really liked this statue, though I’m not quite sure why.

The same statue and the church it was in front of.

The sun did actually peak out from the cloud cover while I was in London, while I took a walk in St. James park (I think it is). Here photographic proof that geese are limber creatures.

Some church

Some other church.

I actually did go see London Bridge, though I didn’t get closer than this, since I had to rush back to see Oceans 11 that I had a ticket for.