Sometimes beautiful, often puerile, but always interesting, I have been photographing the street-art around London for a couple of years now and I’m constantly surprised by the ingenuity and originality shown by artists across the city. We went to Brick Lane at the weekend and I decided to use the visit as an opportunity to…
Tag: Philosophy
Difficult roads
There were only two quotes on the travel noticeboard at Camden Road station this week. The manager has gotten quite used to me taking pictures and we tend to greet each other in the morning, which is somewhat of an interesting consideration.
Hope and fear
Here are the travel notices for this particularly sodden April week in London. Enjoy the weekend.
Look beyond the imperfections
It’s Friday, which means, besides suffering from a slight hangover from Saint Patrick’s day, it’s time for the round-up of travel notices from the past week. I hope they give you something to think about over the weekend.
Saint Patrick’s Day Parade London 2016
On Sunday morning, thousands of revelers gathered in Central London to celebrate the annual Saint Patrick’s Day festival and parade. Patrick may be the patron saint of Ireland, but it’s not so well known that the man mythology claims to have driven the snakes from Irish shores was actually born in Britain. In light of…
This Week in Travel Notices
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the weekly round-up of the travel notices that the staff at the Camden Road railway station. I hope that they give you something to think about over the weekend (for better or worse).
This week in travel notices
Here are the travel notices I spotted on my way to work this week. I hope that they add some colour to your weekend.
This week in travel notices
One of the guy’s who writes these each morning caught me taking a photograph during the Thursday rush hour. I explained that I post these pictures on the site and he seemed quite flattered. He thanked me for paying attention. No, said I, thank you. I now have a “Reddit” share button. It would be…
Smile
Today’s customer information update at Camden Overground Station. I know these kinds of things can come across as a little trite and sentimental but sometimes there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. “What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human […]…
More from the Chalk Philosopher
I caught sight of this poem, written on the pavement outside Camden Underground Station, while on my way back to the office after the gym this afternoon. It looks to be by the same person whose work I photographed a few months ago. For those finding the handwriting difficult to decipher, the poem reads: They…
Life goes on
I saw this travel update at my local train station this morning. I would have taken a better picture but a rather heavy-set woman pushed through me on her way through the turnstyle and ruined the shot. Enjoy.
Cure the Sunday blues
I haven’t had much time to write recently as we have just moved into our new house in Chiswick; this task involving a significant deal of packing, lifting, unpacking, rearranging, realising it doesn’t look quite right and then throwing away altogether. I saw this sandwich board while we were walking through Hamstead last week. After…
The Chalk Philosopher returns
I found another poem written on a boarded-up demolition site in Camden Town this afternoon. Judging by the handwriting, I believe it has the same author as yesterday’s work. It would appear that the person responsible for these poems is indeed a vagrant – or at least someone getting their night’s rest in a sleeping…
One for the poets
In the closing chapter of Augustus by John Williams, a novel I have just finished reading for the second time, I noticed yet another passage that I criminally overlooked on the first read. This quote appears in a letter written by the elderly and reflective emperor Octavius Caesar, to his friend, the historian and philosopher,…