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As Ja’mie, star of Summer Heights High would say…”Oh my god, that is soooo random!”

This week’s theme is actually an anti-theme as the selection of photographs have nothing in common other than they are all part of the weird sightings I experience wandering around London. It is these anomalies that make life worth living and this city is full of ’em..our brains scour the world around us looking for anything that stands out, something that feels strange, odd, disconcerting…this is our survival instinct kicking in as noticing things that were out of the ordinary would have kept you alive back  in the jungle.

Now that we are predator free we don’t really have to worry quite so much but we still, and will always, be on the alert…Look! Some thing’s trying to kill you..oh, no, its ok, its just a giant Simpsons family sitting in someone’s living room staring at me…nothing to worry about…panic over…right? 

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Winter sunshine is nature’s HD – it makes everything pop out…the light, the shadows, the colours…everything is as crisp as the cold air around you, which is a small consolation as its fookin freezing!

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Day 2 of trees that look like twiglets. I did a whole gallery a while back to these oddball alien winter stumps..please click here to view. why am i still taking pictures of them you ask? They’re trees that look like giant twiglets..come on, what’s not to like?

(if you are possibly from a country other than the U.K and have no idea what twiglets are I suggest you look them up, then order some..just ask my cousins Tyler & Oliver…they luuurve them…)

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This week’s set of photographs have all been added to the gallery “Dead in The Mincers” (click here  to view). The subjects that feature in this collection all seem as if they are staring directly at me, almost posing but what is being recorded is actually a fleeting moment of recognition, they have noticed me but are unaware of what I am doing. Each shot would have taken place in a split second without me even stopping. What is recorded is a stolen portrait, unguarded and unposed.

The other fact they have in common is that they were all shot on Portobello Road.

p.s if anyone missed the earlier definition of “dead in the mincers” its old cockney rhyming slang meaning to look someone straight in the eye.

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The gentlemen on my left featured in an earlier #MYLDN set which focussed on people who wore their discontent on their faces (click here to view) …it would appear he has a partner who compliments him well.

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The dust has barely settled on the excess of the holidays and already everyone is out in force trying to shed the pounds they’ve added. I have always felt that the xmas industry and the fitness industry are somehow in collusion. You mess em up and we’ll sort em out. You fat ’em, we’ll thin ’em. New years resolutions are exploited by gyms who know that by March at least 2/3rds of  their new members will disappear never to return again.

If you wanted to go against the grain and not feel you were just going through someone else’s hoops I would suggest doing it in reverse next year…get fit while everyone else is getting wasted and then go out while the rest work out. Time to ditch the herd…welcome to 2015!

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sorry, bit late…

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Happy New Year!

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..and so I leave you for this year with a slightly disturbing  photo of a scary baby with a crucifix, it is xmas after all…thanks for tuning in this year and see you in 2015!