This morning

Piccadilly line, Sudbury Hill

Poster for "How to get away with murder"

Cashpoint raid at Post Office on Greenford Road

The shutter prised open

The door and both windows of the post office smashed

The cash machine broken into and the shop ransacked

The scene today at Greenford Road near Sudbury Hill after the post office was robbed

Poster for The Commitments

Greenford Road, Sudbury Hill

Spotted this poster for The Commitments, the musical adapted from his own novel by our old mate Roddy Doyle, in Sudbury Hill today.

The Greenwood to become a Wetherspoons

The Greenwood, Whitton Avenue West

The Greenwood pub, a large corner pub that has been derelict for some time on Whitton Avenue West, is being converted into a Wetherspoons group hostelry of some sort. A line from an old Robin Hood film will soon be the cry, "To the greenwood, men, and stuff yourselves."

Friday evening

Sudbury Hill

Trainspotting

Sudbury Hill this afternoon

September round up (photos)

Streets around Sudbury Hill and North Greenford over the past week

Listen to the man! #indyref

“When young men were injured in these wars, they didn’t look to each other and ask whether you were Scots or English; they came to each others’ aid because they were part of a common cause. And we not only won these wars together; we won the peace together. We built the health service together. We built the welfare state together. We will build the future together.

And what we have built together by sacrificing and sharing, let no narrow nationalism split asunder ever.” (From LabourList.org)

Point made with a slam of The Great Clunking Fist on the table. Magnificent.

Let's stick together #indyref

Dear Scotland,

Please don't Balkanize the island of Britain. If you do you'll be out of the EU and without a proper currency and it will be a right royal mess. We can get a Labour government for Britain next year and more devolution is on the cards.

And wouldn't your children become foreign students at English universities and have to pay the very high tuition fees rate per year for foreign students? According to HSBC these average £11,933 and range up to £38,532 for the top places, without taking into account living costs.

It would be better to try and create a sort of "Benelux" zone - actually it partly exists already - in the islands of Ireland and Britain, if only we could get Republic of Ireland to join the sterling zone! That's not at all likely, to put it mildly, but we might all end up in the Euro zone eventually, perhaps.

Wouldn't it be much better to have devolution but economic integration within Britain and Ireland, including the Republic? That would be my ideal. It's only this writer's personal opinion of course but it would be very handy for nipping back and forth to Dublin - and Scotland.

Now if Scotland increases divisions in these islands by voting Yes, it only makes life more difficult from my point of view. The difficulties that I foresee will also apply to you but you may think the benefits of independence and separate EU membership outweigh such considerations, but I hope "No, Thanks!" carries the day.

Regards, best wishes,
Harry Lemon

Hello Goodbye by The Cure

For a new Beatles tribute album (via Guardian feature)

Edgware Road

Lime?

This morning

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Bob Dylan favourites

Sweetheart Like You

Series of Dreams

Jokerman

Things Have Changed

Steve's favourites as seen at Museum of Illusions

Story for Kindle

Adverts by Gombeen™

Everybody is dying to meet her. Literally. She scythes her way through the oddballs who answer her lonely hearts advert, who frequent singles bars or are merely fated to encounter her by chance. Still, it’s no good to dwell on past misfortune, especially when it’s not hers.

Harrow in Leaf - 2014

Harrow in LEAF's 10th annual horticultural & craft show and family fun day is on Sunday and bank holiday Monday, from 12-5pm at Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre, HA2 6PX. Admission is £2.50, under 12's free and there is "ample free parking".  Link: http://harrowinleaf.org.uk

Here's a video from last year's one:

Against the use of plastic for park benches

Public bridleway from South Vale to Sudbury Hill, Harrow (Capital Ring)

Lightning strike? Spotted this scene on Tuesday 12th August and took pictures yesterday. And if it was a lightning strike, how do you feel about sitting on the benches in future when the weather is thundery?

London plane trees

Canopy

All - Norfolk Square Gardens

Green meanies

Paddington Basin

Looks like those madcap Beatles running for their lives to escape the nastiness of green algae. (Okay, a bit of a stretch.)

Giant chess game

Norfolk Square Gardens, Paddington

There were children playing there a little earlier but heaven forbid anyone should photograph them.

What just happened?

"Norman Finkelstein on Gaza conflict, Hamas goals and Iron Dome myth". He makes quite a few good points, including blaming Obama for allowing this to happen.

It's not the only atrocity but it was deliberately timed to coincide with the others that are ongoing and it was supported by the UK and US governments, as well as Egypt and others. So it is one for which we have some responsibility, since it is our governments that have allowed it to happen. The others, one could well say "Let them sort it out among themselves - there's enough of them". But when your own government takes a hand in arming those responsible for massacres, expropriations and genocide, then it's time to get up and do something, it's passed time in fact, and in the UK to change the government next year.

Not that the Opposition has any better record but at least they might be better on this than the present shower. And even if they are no better, we must always punish those in power for their depredations whenever we can, even if only by replacing them for the time being with another coterie of nincompoops.

Florist window

Clifton Road, Maida Vale

David Norris speaks truth to power

"Israel is afraid of Palestinian unity. That's what all this is about." He speaks to the recalled Irish Senate (the Seanad) after Ireland abstained from action at the UN over Gaza.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign - national march for Gaza

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/march-saturday-gaza-make-voice-heard/

DEMONSTRATE WITH PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN ON SATURDAY 9th AUGUST IN LONDON. (Details here)

Salmond spanked by Darling

Apologies: Guardian.com has removed the video.



"Any eight-year-old child can tell you the flag of a country, the capital and the currency." (But not Alex Salmond as regards Scotland)

Saturday evening

Sudbury Hill Harrow