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Archive for Brixton

Most anachronistic use of fonts I’ve seen in a while!


Since when was Frankfurter an authorative font?

2008 Lambeth Country Show vegetable competition

My favourite part of the show every year…

I especially love Amy Greenhouse, above.

Brixton police potplants

The guy that did these lives somewhere on or near my road – he has a car strapped with panels proclaiming the same kind of messsages…

its a veritable variance of vegetables!



Scenes from the Children’s Vegetable Display at the Lambeth County Fair in Brockwell Park, just up the road… The turtle got first prize…

Brixton High Street Flooding

Trapped yesterday in this deluge and managed to wreck a pair of shoes, and make it back home, from what is usually 3 minutes away, covered in welts from the hail…
All this a week after the longest day of the year – the middle of midsummer…