Miracle of the plague year
September 21, 2020
I have stood in Trafalgar Square with a solitary pigeon as a man in a yellow high-vis jacket, a Harris Harrier on his arm, patrolled between the sparkling fountains, scaring away birds from non-existent tourists… Read on
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King Street, Covent Garden
At the finish line on what would have been 2020 London Marathon
At Paddington as ghost trains slide in and out
London Zoo
Bond Street
Some shops are frozen in and eternal Easter
Regents Street
Man with Harris Harrier, Trafalgar Square
At Oxford Circus, the traffic lights cycle pointlessly though red, amber and green
Everywhere in Hyde park there are crows, no longer able to take advantage of the street larder of discarded chips and half-eaten burgers
Hyde Park
Gerrard Street
Paddington Basin
The National Theatre
The South Bank
St Martin’s Lane
Piccadilly Circus is as empty as the Atacama Desert
Leicester Square
In Trafalgar Square with a solitary pigeon