Bob Dylan - New Morning
Sandra - Stay In Touch
Hammock - The Sleepover Series Volume Two
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - An Evening Of Yes Music Plus
Gentle Giant - Scraping The Barrel
Happy Apple - Youth Oriented
Bamberger Streichquartett - Mozart and Muller
Alice Peacock - Who I Am
The Bad Plus - Blunt Object Live In Tokyo
Maybeshewill - Fair Youth
Yes - YesShows '88
Peter Baumann - Trans Harmonic Nights
Elton John - Elton John
Haydn - Complete String Quartets Vol 20
Amy LaVere - Anchors and Anvils
Mozart - Piano Sonata #8, 9 Variations On A Minuet by Duport
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Phish - Synch Sampler
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Ken Hensley - Blood on the Highway
Max Jury - Christian Eyes
Bill Frisell - Guitar in the Space Age!
Neal Morse - Songs From November
A beautiful sunny morning belied the rainy forecast...
Tube to London Bridge...
...noting the ubiquitous Shard on our way to...
...Borough Market...
Anne was on the lookout for new spices re her curry cookery..
Mission accomplished...
Breakfast enjoyed and we eschewed the queuing masses outside Monmouth...
...to partake of same next door...
...at the Gelateria...
Back out into the sun...
A quick scoot round Paul Smith...
...noting nearby upwards parking...
Our next target was the Tower of London and the journey commenced with a walk back through the market...
...past Southwark Cathedral, aka The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie...
To the river...
Helicopter over the Shard
St Paul's in the distance...
Along the river bank...
A detour into Hays Wharf Galleria...
....with its interesting sculpture, sadly surrounded by the usual shopping opportunity suspects...
Onward, past HMS Belfast...
..and the Mayor's office...
..noting this alongside...
...and an art exhibition of sorts called Noise, co-curated by Brian Eno...
...featuring this interesting chap...
Over Tower Bridge...
...which afforded good views...
...followed by a walk around the Tower of London - with the very moving art installation "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, with setting by stage designer Tom Piper...
It marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and the final installation will see 888,246 ceramic poppies fill the Tower's moat...
After the installation is dismantled, the poppies themselves will be distributed to individual purchasers, of which the Exec Producer is one, having made her purchase earlier this year...
Thus a rather substantial amount of money will be raised for charity...
Most impressive and an obviously popular attraction....
Back to the Tube and, instead of our originally intended destination of Camden Lock, we took the train in the opposite direction...
...to Brick Lane...
...where Rough Trade East was the recipient of seven of your English pounds for a tasty 2CD collection of Virgin Front Line Dub...
Lunch from a Bagel shop...
My attention was drawn into a side street by this scenario...
...which led me to look into this wee shop...
...with its three resident cats and friendly owner, from whom a CD, of what can only be described as annoying noise, was purchased...
The earlier bagel shop experience meant we could not savour anything from this nearby street food market...
Back to the Tube...
...to Camden Town...
...where boots were once more not found but a goatskin leather bag was...
...meanwhile three classical CDs were obtained for less than the price of a 2CD set of dub music from this wee bookshop, where similar purchases were made, over three years ago now, when I would come here of an occasion when sister Pam was sleeping in hospital over at Hampstead...
We met again under the bridge and looked for a suitable purveyor of hot drinks...
Found...
...before taking a bus down to Denmark Street...
...and, round the corner, the brand new Foyles Bookshop, just a couple of doors down from its former premises...
Nothing purchased and we walked on down to Soho, for drinks next door to Harold Moore's Record Shop...
Still sunny...
Dinner tonight was care of Wahaca - a Mexican "street food" chain founded by a past winner of Master Chef...
It did not disappoint...
Our last tube of the day took us back to King's Cross and we enjoyed a drink at the Queen's Head...
After a long, packed day we were back at the apartment in time for "Dr Who"...
We decided after all not to go to an all night club...
Lights out...
Highlight of the Day : Poppies. markets and Mexican...
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